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A fine impressive and highly detailed loco shed-one of the finest i've ever seen-well done to Glenderg for building such a model,and thanks for sharing Anthony.

It was originally a tamping machine-before being converted to a hedge cutter, It's not in use anymore as IE prefer to use outside contractors that have road/rail machines with hedge cutting attachments instead.

Fantastic-really really impressive,well done Paddy Murphy-definatly model of the year for 2012. Roll on October,thanks Gareth for posting.

26735 is a stores oil wagon,the 'D' on the tank stands for diesel oil, I remember the wagon being part of the ESSO oil train-also in the picture, The wagon was used in later years to transport diesel to the Bus Eireann depot in Ballina and was often part of the 20:45 Northwall-Ballina liner returning when empty on the 22:10 Ballina-Northwall liner,sometimes it was the only wagon behind an 071 loco from Ballina-Claremorris travelling at only 35mph, The wagon would also have been used along with others for the Alexandra rd-Inchicore fuel oil transfer which used to supply the large storage tanks at Inchicore works.

Correct h gricer-your welcome to the site,great to have you here, 072 worked the last Ballina-Waterford DFDS liner on Friday 06/17/12, 079 worked the last Waterford-Ballina DFDS liner on Tuesday 10/07/12-the liner wagons are now being used for the extra IWT liner on Wednesday and Thursday.

Or maybe something like this...... Another product from the paint shop of Seamus Graham.

Yes Vincent it is loosely based around Inchicore-Heuston with the four track bi-directional lines which give me lots of operating options, Here are a few photos of Monday evenings locos which are being serviced at the depot for evening passenger and freight services, 146 gets checked over at the running shed before being allocated to a fertliser train. A view from the cab of 156 of various locos in the yard. 201 off the 19:00 Mk3 set arrives at the shed and gets checked out-while 210 awaits a driver to work it back to the station for passenger duties, Locos 155+156 will work the oil train transfer from the oil road siding over to the railcar depot and later to the carriage valeting plant after the passenger services have finished.

(This one is for 201bhoy)-220 works a fully loaded IWT liner seen here passing the ammonia and bulk cement. After a loco change which seen 220 allocated to the Mk2 set,8208 was put on to the IWT-a rare loco on a freight train, Shortly after taking over the liner the CTC signalman contacted the driver to say that the hot box detector had been activated and to stop and examine his train, Here we see Driver Anthony about to examine his train having asked Eamonn the CTC signalman for signal protection-209 on the Mk4 set being held at the station until the all clear is given.

Anthony-no rolling stock nowadays carry any names, The last rolling stock in the IE era to carry a name were the Mk3a coaches and they were named "Cu na Mara", They worked on the Heuston-Galway route from 1994 to 2006 until they transferred over to the Westport route for approximately one year until withdrawal in 2007.

721 is named Jess-the nameplate is halfway on the body.

Eamonn-that's very possible that 112 got the cab side windows off a 141 class loco, I remember 112 working the Ballina branch Cravens set in 2004-and i see from an IRRS journal that loco 158 was cut up at Inchicore in March 2003-so its possible that 112 has 158's cab side windows. Most withdrawals of 141/181's seem to have taken place from 2006 onwards.

That's my model of EM50 no' 700 which is based on IE's track recording car,721 is an inspection car used by per-way inspectors to check conditions of level crossings,fencing,cuttings and embankments along all lines, 721 is the only one of its type and was built in 1993 by Hugh Philips-the only other inspections cars are no's 722 and 723 which are a different type and were built in 1994 by Matisa- I haven't see 722 or 723 for some time.

A nice modelling project to do would be this IE inspection car seen here at Castlerea station siding during the week.....

Excellent job there Eamonn,very realistic ,a typical Irish railway scene nicely recreated.

Many thanks Boskonay and Eamonn-I'm working on the video end of things, In the meantime I bought a few of these excellent Hornby KFA container wagons during the week,the under frame detail is top class and the added bonus of sprung buffers is a nice touch, Now even though they are a 60ft wagons-(ideal for conversion to a timber train)-I decided to use them for my IWT liner as the choice of containers/tanks that come with the wagons are the same as what the real IWT liner carries,and it would be a shame to start cutting and shortening such a fine wagon, The metal frame is heavy and also helps the wagons when running around the layout without containers, So,after repainting the wagons with red oxide paint and applying some 30XXX bogie wagon numbers-it was time for 220 to haul them empty on a trial run around Tara Jctn-all went well, Hera are a few photos of the wagons and the trial run.......

Look forward to that Eamonn-well done with it.

Thanks 201bhoy, Yes I think in future i'll add some commentary of what's doing what etc-a good idea.

Many thanks Josefstadt,it took me a while to figure out the consisting operation for the 2x 141s-but I got there-and I'm happy with that operation, Yes the DFDS liner is in the pipeline-with some weedspray wagons to add to the weedspray coach that's lying in a siding, Thanks again lads.

I've recorded lots of videos of the new layout on my iPhone and will gladly put them on here-except I don't know how to,any help would be greatly appreciated....

Early Saturday morning on Tara Jctn sees recently repainted NIR loco 209 work the 10:00 down Mk4 service passing sister loco 8208 on an up Mk2 service with an ICR on the local service,while 229 ticks over on shed after being replaced earlier by 209.

I was very impressed on a recent visit to Cultra to see the real 800 class Maedbh,it's sheer size etc, It must have been some sight on the mainline, Des-you have certainly captured the impressive look of the loco-and if I had the confidence to build one I would certainly have one, Well done-and best of luck with it.

The DFDS liner finished on Tuesday 10/07/12 with 079 hauling the final train from Waterford to Ballina.

Well done Frank-a nice era,love the cement depot.

Nice job there Kieran-look forward to more updates on your progress.

Great idea Anthony, Let me get the train rolling 071 class: 072 worked the 11:05 Ballina-Northwall IWT liner this morning, 081 worked the Waterford-Westport empty timber train arriving in Westport at 17:40 this evening, 201 class: The working of the year so far for me anyway when 8208 worked the 08:15 Ballina-Northwall IWT liner 17/18 LX wagons were loaded, It had replaced 088 which had failed near Sallins yesterday morning,the liner eventually arriving into Ballina freight yard at 16:40-photos over the next few days, 222 worked the Northwall-Ballina IWT CPW liner today,arriving in Ballina freight yard at 14:35.