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Good luck @Irishrailwayman with your "re-purposing" of your layout. When I have time, I'll wind everyone up with pictures of Portadown Jct with GERMAN (think of a German Class 50 on a goods at Richhill!) and Southern Railway rolling stock (all electric of course!). Back to the real Thread. The little E Class should serve you very well. Reference has been made by @Galteemore to his build of one - and very nice it is too - that's downstairs in my Railway Room on "Rosses Point" (on 36.75mm track!). Then there's @Northroader's one (on 32mm track). I must place that in the engine shed and take a photie! Almost as bad as pre-Major General Pasley's Big Decision - I have TWO Irish gauges within a couple of feet of each other (and on the SAME railway company!). .......

Note that it is unavailable on Amazon. Someone's twigged that this is a reprint of Conroy's book published in 1928 (my copy is not with me). I note on ABE Books various Indian reprints of books - this one is on "Print on demand" from some organisation in India. Enough said.

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Hi Brendan Commiserations that you have a similar issue. The bogie which leaps off sets to be the trailing bogie of Car 3 (next to the trailing motor coach). As I said on an earlier post, it was really bought for the Glass Cabinet, so like you, I may swallow the issue. Of course, if I do build that SR layout it would be a station between two fiddle yards, so a nice straight shuttle arrangement for the $DD would work fine? As for Irish modelling being easier - IT IS if you model diesels - but steam IS A DIFFERENT MATTER. As almost no RTR steam exists, you end up with brass locos built from kits which need an Andy Candice, or a David Holman, or a David Richardson on hand to fiddle about with the things. THEY derail with impunity - mainly the leading bogies. Dr Edgar produced a working solution which has helped my S Class, but then there's the PPs (two) ALs (two, the Glover tanks (one quite well-behaved, the other two short out very happily), etc etc . Still, it's a nice problem to have - they look lovely just sitting around!!!!!

Anyway, back to the 4DD. I re-railed it and ran it THE OTHER WAY through the point with no trouble, but it still derailed in the other direction - I'm keeping fit going to retail it each time - remember my layout is house long! Then, I thought I'd show you it moving where it didn't derail - you'll love this - derailed right in front of me. Only 4 seconds, you'll love it! I've looked at the offending trailer and the bogie has more play than others, so I IMG_4181.MOV am looking for a suitable screwdriver ........

Ah yes, but she can get an All-Line, trains boats and buses, First Class for a YEAR for about CHF6,500! Trains on time and most places at least half-hourly! Who would own a car? I believe that spouses and kids get a big discount.

NO TRAIN LOKE THAT in modern Switzerland, but the upper floor of their double-deckers have curved-in windows just like the 4DD - but are very spacious in First (I've no idea what Second is like!) ........... Aren't First Class Interrail passes wonderful? 25% off them sale on at the moment!

Hi David I presume that "Rathmelton" at the Southampton exhibition in 2026 is YOU? just getting my new diary into shape!

Thanks @Signal Post - based on the advice given, it's going back to Rails! I hope that you enjoyed its short history on the Armagh Line.

Brilliant man, @Flying Snail, I'd wondered what it could be like to travel in one! Thanks for the link!

Thanks, to both of you for these points (pun intended!) I'll have a look at both points when I'm next in a position in do so. At this moment, my eighty year old knee isn't working so to even get back into the loft will be painful.

By way of a serious wind-up. I've decided to electrify the Junction, and this is an Armagh Commuter train of the future, after the line is put back ...... Rather than wait for an 800 which which may appear posthumously, I decided to invest the same sum in another creation of the Blessed Oliver: This is the just-released "KR Models" model of the Bulleid Class "4DD" EMU, which you can see was an attempt to build a double-decker within the GB gauge. Only two sets were built, but they ran for 13-14 years. The Jury is out on this one - it's derailing on my points and with my vast layout, that means creeping under rafters to rescue it - it hated by single slip at Richhill, derailled the whole train, while a point at the North End of Portadown has just taken it out for the second time. I'll be the Internet to see if others have found this an issue. Unusually (?) it has motors in both motor coaches (which are invisible!), so it runs nicely when it likes the track. Lights internally and in the cabs, but unbelievably none on the Headcode Box, or a rear red panel. Unremarkable for detail - it wouldn't pass Paul Isles' attention to detail, but hey, no-one else will make a RTR model of one? Really only bought for the glass cabinet, but I've hankered after a simple SR layout as i've 4/5 EMU sets.

This thread seems to have strayed off the subject?