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  1. Northroader
    Just looking at your new trackplan set me thinking of Ruyton Road, an old layout at present getting a face lift. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/154530-ruyton-road-revisited-what-to-do-with-an-old-classic/#comment-3964744
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    The brass tanks look promising, what tools are you missing? All you’re short of is a small halfround file, it seems to me, which is cheap to get. Then you can fit the lower edge of the tank to go round the “bumps”.
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    true enough. It wasn’t always like that.
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    You’re on your way to a J18/19 if you shorten the back end of a GWR 2251 0-6-0, which will give you the right chassis, as near as dammit.
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    Wonder if the prints would be do-able in 7mm?
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    The paint finish is great, how you’ve managed to get a totally run down appearance is marvellous.
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    I’m with Ernie on this. Here’s a video clip of Pempoul, a model done by the Gravetts, who are total masters of scenery. Just watch how the train exits at the right hand end, small insignificant trees in front and behind.
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    Here’s the track plan given in Volume one of R.M.Arnold’s book “The Golden Years of the GNR”:
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    Very nice idea, I’d be tempted to pinch a bit more on the width if possible. I think you’re right about turntables, they’re a set size for a small tender loco, and you need quite a bit of space round them, they become too dominant for the small sized layout. One thing that I found attractive about Castle Rackrent was how the design flowed with a reverse curve following the road, and another following the main railway line, most designs have the exit square across the tracks. Will be a very interesting build to follow, getting the popcorn out.
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    Iain Rice did do Westport Quay for a model plan in his booklet “Model Railway Layout Design” (Wild Swan 1990)
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    There’s a nice “full on” side picture in Murray and McNeills GS&WR book.
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    Here’s somewhere using small coasters, more modellable size. It just needs to have rail access added. https://www.facebook.com/bairdart48/
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    There’s a little film show, mainly shots of the town, but a few in the middle, of the Quay. Includes very tasty view of MGWR wagons. https://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22239:iconic-mill-levelled-at-last&catid=23:news&Itemid=46
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    There’s a crane a bit like what you’re after in this old picture of Westport Quay. However, I’m struggling to make out if it’s mounted on a mobile carriage, fixed down on the dockside, or even mounted on the backend of some sort of lighter. There’s also about the smallest size of steamer with holds fore and aft of a central machinery compartment, but I fancy it would be oversize for a microlayout.
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    Good trip to Uckfield on Sunday, and well worth it to see Belmullet, and meet David. Thanks for the craic, as they say, and I can report that the layout works as well as it looks, really smooth running from the loco fleet. Wonder what is going to appear next?
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    I suppose with that CAD process, another advantage would be you could just as easy do it in 7mm scale? (Hint, hint)
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    Not quite what you have in mind, I’m sure, but you could try Moyasta on the West Clare. Two long roads diverging with a platform, and a short road for an engine shed, which needs to be brought up forward with the rest, which would then match an Inglenook. Upsize from 3’ gauge, you have potential for placing loco, carriages, wagons (forming up mixed trains?) and you can include some buildings? Sort of small version of Belturbet, say. http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway Stations M/Moyasta Junction/IrishRailwayStations.html
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    Do you mind if instead of me clicking like for each entry, I just say how highly appreciative I am of this series? I think it is really useful.
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    Lovely modelling, I’m most impressed how you’ve adapted run of the mill items into specific models for your needs. One thing, just looking round the surroundings, there’s lots of ivy starting to appear. All this summer I’ve been doing a clearout of the b***** stuff. It starts off looking pretty and giving everywhere a nice green look, but it just keeps growing and spreading, by the time you realise it’s taken over, you’ve got long underground runners and 2” thick stems, and it’s very hard work clearing it, so recommend you start now.
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    Very interested to see another narrow gauge 4’x2’ layout. Mine is done with 16.5mm track, so it is getting away from reality, as the curves (10”) are too tight, and only four wheel chassis can be used.
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    Next job is try and fit a layout in one of them?
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    “What are yer usin’ fer bait, there?”
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    The Irish rail tankcars were supplied by builders in Great Britain before WW2, using same specifications apart from gauge, so I built my model from a British kit. This has a wheelbase of 10’6”. I got the details from an article in the HMRS Journal, volume 16, number 12, “Irish Petroleum Tank Wagons, which had pictures for the Munster Simms, McMullan Bros. of Belfast, BP, and Shell Mex.
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