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Great Northern Railway of Ireland locomotive coal wagons. Model kit available from Provincial Wagons: https://provincialwagons.com/kits-available/ Cavan & Leitrim Railway's Arigna Branch ran from the Arigna coal mines to Ballinamore. You'll find a handful of photos showing coal wagons here: https://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/06/15/the-cavan-and-leitrim-railway-the-arigna-tramway/. A number of years ago, Foxrock Models (Simon de Souza) produced CLR coal wagons. Someone else apparently also did a casting or a 3D print: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/blogs/entry/24609-irish-interlude-3-cavan-and-leitrim-coal-wagon-now-with-chassis/.

Thank you, Colin. I sent a query just now about posting to the U.S.

While this thread was playing out, I bought four IRM MK2 coaches and six Magnesite ore wagons. The IRM MK2 coaches were sent from Dublin Friday and arrived in Chicago mid-day today, Monday. They're beautiful. I just wish I had more disposable income to dispose of with IRM models.

Welcome! You might want to look at the used locomotives, carriages, and goods wagons that the 009 Society sells. https://009society.com/news/shop/ The 009 Society currently has 84 locomotives for sale. If you specifically want to start Irish narrow gauge, there's this County Donegal Railway railcar: https://009society.com/news/shop/second-hand-sales/009-stock/009-locomotives/cdr-bogie-articulated-railbus/ And this Clogher Valley Railway "The Unit": https://009society.com/news/shop/second-hand-sales/009-stock/009-locomotives/clogher-valley-no-2-utility-vehicle/ One of the small makers of locomotive models offers a close representation of a Clogher Valey Railway locomotive and carriages in 009. For the life of me, right now I can't remember the name.

Yes. This. Agree.

Bachmann just announced new 009 carriages, so there's at least a niche market for a big maker to continue in. IRM hired a narrow-gauge model designer from another firm. My long-shot guess: a Tralee & Dingle Light Railway Hunslet 2-6-0, convertible from 009 to 00n3, in TDLR, Cavan & Leitrim, or West Clare Railway liveries. In business, you identify an unmet desire and create a new market.

Congratulations for your finds, Denis. Now, perhaps, some Halling motor bogies....

@2996 Victor and @Horsetan: Studio Scale Models already offer etched brass kits of the MGWR E class (J26). See http://www.studio-scale-models.com/Locos.shtml

I bid on the Cavan & Leitrim Stephenson loco, the Tralee & Dingle Hunslet loco 3T, and the coaches just for the Tralee & Dingle coach and maybe the Clogher Valley coach. (Colin R, Commerlad, or others among our 00n3 fraternity might want the IOM coaches.) The CLR locomotive is something I've sought for years now, but have not been able to acquire, even in kit form.

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Try expanding outward, rather than continuing to promote within the same single forum. Consider using Adverts.ie, RMWeb, definitely some of the Facebook groups for selling model trains. You might also look for specific groups on the Groups.io platform -- afinity groups for each of the railroads, for example. Your advantage is that you've got an unusual collection for Ireland, the U.K., and EU nations.

And yet, the GWR still got it wrong, and missed the chance to go 5 foot 3 inches.

Ah, thank you. That helps me focus on the little details, and how they compare. (Now where did I put my DN&G book....)

@Killian Keane, which London Road Models loco kit matches the "special tanks" on the Dundalk Newry and Greenore Railway? Or which British railway's loco design matched the DN & G - one of the L&NWR kits from London Road Models?

@David Holman, would you be able to point me to a reference source with drawings or photos about this Railway Clearing House tank wagon? Or a kit source? I'm a rank amateur learner.

This morning, a possible clue to IRM's first Irish steam locomotive. Maybe a Midland Great Western Railway class J26? https://www.accurascale.com/en-us/blogs/news/buck-me-lets-jump-for-joy-at-this-little-stunner

Denis, look at the 009 Society's Members Sales web pages at www.009society.org. Several County Donegal Railways railcars are available. Also check out Model Engine Works' web site and Shapeways store for some Irish narrow gauge locomotives. Happy to share info about the 00n3 special interest group of the 009 Society, if you want. Martin

Here's the Alphagraphix catalogue: https://www.alphagraphixkits.co.uk/

Which structure at Connolly is the "valeting depot"?

Denis, before you get to buying points -- Have you already sketched on graph paper the compromise between your layout space and your desired scene of Kilfree Junction?. Also, maybe think about changes in gradients and how they might add scenery -- the OSI map shows a lot "going on" in a small place, which makes a small shelf layout easier to fill with shunting action. The turntable is a key attraction for a viewer. The late Carl Arendt used to design all sorts of realistic microlayouts and shelf layouts. You might also look for Iain Rice's books on the same. (I'll try to find them; I posted them somewhere recently.) Andy Cundick's layout Valencia Harbour was featured in Model Rail magazine No. 198 (August 2014), pp 90-96. Andy's layout is 12 feet by 2 feet with a sector plate. Finally, the layouts Dugort Harbour of @jhb171achill and Keadue by @Mayner featured elsewhere on this web board might help: ( I recently estimated that the MGWR and Cavan & Leitrim stations and yard at Dromod might be compressible into 18 linear feet (three 6-foot modules). Eighteen feet is a long stretch for a small home, which causes me to rethink what I want to depict and do.

The MGWR branch lines offered such character and scenic interest.

Try the "Small Layout Scrapbook" by Carl Arendt: https://www.carendt.com/category/small-layout-scrapbook/ Iain Rice was a master of small layouts: https://www.trains.com/mrr/news-reviews/news/in-memoriam-iain-rice/. Three of his four U.S. books appear relevant: Small, Smart & Practical Track Plans (2000), Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads (2009), and Compact Layout Design (2015). A full list of his books appears here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Rice. You might also like some of the Wild Swan Publications books about layout design and scenery: https://wildswanbooks.co.uk/Layouts-Scenery-Landscape.htm Finally, you might want to consider basing your compact layout on a real place, such as the shunting operations in Dublin at East Wall and North Wall. A Shell Oil "Hibberd Planet" locomotive that operated at East Wall is buildable from a kit by Nonneminstre Models: http://www.nonneminstre.co.uk/4mm-standard-gauge.php. You might use the Ordinance Survey Ireland maps of the docks and railway lines to get some inspiration. There was plenty to do around the Spencer Dock and eastward to the GS&WR goods depot, known in the 1980s as the concert venue The Point Depot. (Some of the dates might be a little fudgy for your 1970s-1980s focus.) Good lads here taught me all this.

What type of older coach would you want? And is the model a Murphy Models issue, or a respray? I have an extra Bachmann green, gray, black CIE coach based on the LMS design -- the coaches that accompanied the ex-Midland Great Western Railway "Woolwich" loco. I also have extras of the green Wollwich loco.

Just to reinforce: Yes, all the prices are at the purchase prices, so they're being sold at cost. The OO Works locomotive made in 2018 is no longer available; a modernized version with a Belpaire boiler is GBP 315 plus P & P. The JM Railway Designs kit is one of only maybe six or ten made and the price equates with the New Zealand dollar amount at the time the kits were sold. Richard has designed some wonderful 3-D printed railway models of Irish, Polish, Chinese (the Polish PX48 loco), and other European locomotives and carriages. I just bought several of his Irish narrow gauge carriage kits and bogies last week: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/glr3dmodeldesign.

What specifically are you seeking? A specific railway, or a specific model? And what scale and gauge?