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Interesting spoil train segment, looks like three sidings to the south and to the north two sidings coming together to form a runround loop 48:30 3 roads 51:15 2 roads 53:39 3 roads 54:10 runround loop (interesting 'ghost point' at the Belfast unloading site too 45:26) Interesting to me that is. Until a year ago I never even realised there were two lots of sidings toe to toe, I must always have had my back to the direction of travel!
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DC Kits are not into stocking bits and pieces these days, more along the lines of if it's gone it's gone.
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You still occasionally hear of 'Southern Ireland', like that ever happened
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Some of those plastic ruins for fish in aquariums are not a million miles away... ...maybe some pruning and a bit of filler scraped across the stonework... ...semi-relief in the background these would work.
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Great cover, happy and sad!
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The Blue Pullman hits British rails again this week....sort of...
NIR replied to Galteemore's topic in News
For me it was all about the front end, a design classic -
I never realised NCC somersault arms were 5 feet long!
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Some photos from this morning showing track and signalling From the Belfast direction the single line becomes a bidirectional double line ...then a crossover leads to a turnout to the main platform road and completes a runaround loop Now back in England
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How many people walking along Carlow Main Street, how many into trains, how many looking to buy. Less than 1 times less than 1 times less than 1 is quickly tending to zero. At this point even €zero rent is probably too much.
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Standing alone, the structure at the rear would make an excellent Victorian folly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly
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Doesn't look Irish, I'm not sure it looks anything really, and more 19th century than medieval, just look at all those windows. Ireland was more a Tower House sort of place, think the structure at the rear standing alone without the curtain wall or gatehouse, but even that looks wrong. (castles are one of my interests from years ago)
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What it looks like http://www.railsigns.uk/info/nstr1/nstr_f1.gif Would seem to have been the obvious solution for a three trains a day railway. (the 'ground signals' are point indicators confirming the lay of the points, the blank board says 'end of section - proceed if platform line clear')
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I'm just wondering if something as basic as the Heart of Wales line exists in Ireland. No signals just stop boards 'start of section - obtain permission to proceed', no point motors just trains trailing through loops, no automatic barriers just drivers stopping and pressing plungers to operate level crossings.
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The instanter looks like a long reach coupling I've seen on wagons with long Oleo buffers, the hook being held by a collar not a mounting plate. The screw link coupling has no mounting so looks fairly generic for locomotives, railcars and coaches. Would be good to hear what they actually are though.
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FREMO modular layout - polish rail PKP
NIR replied to Jack_Dunboyne's topic in Continental European Modelling
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Track radius is a compromise with reality, unless you have a very long space in which to build your own track. Ready made track comes in small, medium or large radius, the larger the radius the less the compromise with reality, so it all depends on how much space you have. Track planning software such as SCARM (free download) will let you see what can be achieved with ready made components.
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What a great windscreen!
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A bit like this fiddle yard design I rediscovered in an old magazine, a more intelligent balloon loop. Train enters loop, propels whatever is in loop until loco reaches F, loco detaches and propels its new train until it clears the points, then pulls away. It's beautiful! (Model Railway Constructor, August 1975)
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Looks like Foyle Road is the next one up on that website. Compact and urban, it has a lot going for it. A lot smaller than I remember though. I'm imagining a 1990 NIR 'what if'...
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Sounds like it's changed for the worse. The place was never more than half full, happy to deliver up boxes with uncatalogued contents too. Progress? I was even in there once when they were going through releases under the 30 year rule a day in advance!
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More Dunsandle questions we even have a map now
NIR replied to Buz's question in Questions & Answers
While looking for a signalling diagram http://dunsandlerailwaystation.blogspot.com/2008/02/dunsandle-station-station-layout.html?m=1 A ringed siding signal was connected to a trap point protecting the exit from the ballast siding -
That's a whole lot different to bouncing along behind a pissed up driver in an 81!
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Cork Albert Quay, as truncated headshunt Natural inglenook with the perfect scenic break, lots of back and forth with Cs and baby GMs, stock old and new ...or maybe a 'reverse inglenook', a scenic traverser leading more immediately onto a longer headshunt Michael H C Baker/The Railway Magazine, May 1975
