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Hi Kieran, Yes it wasn't an easy decision to change track plans but I'm delighted I did, My priority was first to get the trains moving again and see how they performed on the new tracks, Phase two will be some painting and ballasting with the final stage of some areas of scenery-not my strongest point-but I'll give it a go.
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Cheers and thank you Eamonn Another late night at Tara Jctn eventually saw some action..... From the left 0117077 rests on the turntable road, 29001 stands on the loop road, Mk2 NIR set arrives behind 208, 2607+2608 arrive on platform 4, 8208 has charge of the down Enterprise on platform 3, 234 pushes the Mk4 set on platform 2, Last but not least loco 201 shares the bay platform with the arrow 2601+ 2602. An eventful evening....!!
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Morning gentlemen, After a few weeks of inactivity I got to work again yesterday on the layout, I wasn't happy with the original track plan so I started again, This time I have a four track mainline station with the potential for four trains operating at the one time, I have also installed a turntable and this can be accessed from the MPD without causing any conflicting movements with the main lines, Colour light signal control the station area.
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Patrick-the restriction applied to the river bridge at Ballisodare,which has since been refurbished, There is now no restriction on the operation of the 071/201s locomotives on the entire Sligo line.
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Superb work and inspirational,well done Raymond, I'm watching your layout develop with great interest.
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From my records I see that nearly all of the 201s were fitted with the new marker lights during 2001,with the 071s shortly afterwards.
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During the ILDA dispute of summer 2000-I remember seeing loco 155 in Ballina with the new LED marker lights and shortly afterwards loco 077 arrived on the nightly liner train from Northwall sporting the same lights, By the end of 2001 most of the fleet had them fitted.
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Lovely scene well done Eamonn.
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No Kieran-I have an incline built to the lower level,if that doesn't work,I still have room for a helix-but the plan is to have an end to end branch line on the lower level with stock transfers via the six storage sidings and incline.
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Yes Andy-I'm still finalising it though and it may change,my Enterprise set doesn't like too many tight curves...so I'm working on easing out any problems that I'm encountering, The"Kildare"type station that you see in the last photo has run around facilities-so that my DFDS and timber trains or anything else can run around without disrupting any up or down passenger services,-(it will make full use of the functions on the sound fitted 071 and 201 loco's). I plan to store most of my freight and per way rolling stock underneath the main layout and haul them up as required.
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Thanks JHB and Eamonn-much appreciated, I could do with hiring your ballast train for a few weeks Eamonn as I'm going to be busy ballasting...
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Morning Gents The NIR crew have made their way down to Tara jctn this morning for route knowledge with four Mk2s and 208. Across the platform 209 has charge of the Enterprise and over from that 234 pushes the Mk4 set.
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Good evening gentlemen, Lights,camera,action.... 152 brings the Mk2d SUPERTRAIN set into platform 3 at Tara jctn on a driver training run while 077 works the empty Enterprise set on platform 2, 215 has charge of the Mk4 set on platform one In the distance 2601+2602 and 2607+2608 wait their turn on driver training and route knowledge trips
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Enterprise 206 working the IWT liner.
ttc0169 replied to ttc0169's topic in What's happening on the network?
There was only money allocated to overhaul and refurbish loco 216 as it wasn't feasible to overhaul any other 201 for Belmond at this time. -
It gives a new meaning to the phrase CIE SUPERTRAIN.
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Morning Andy-I've always loved the atmosphere and era of GVS-another great scene,well done.
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Excellent work Raymond,I'm very impressed with your developments,well done, I'm watching this layout with interest.
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Yes Stephen I am for the new stations' date='they are fine and can be faced off with some brickwork, I'm also using some of the former layouts medcalf buildings In particular the island platform and building.
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No need for a back scene in this area-the real thing will do for me.... The planned"Kildare"station-lots of options here too.
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Main Bus wire installed-droppers next and I should be ready for a live"sound"test by Friday,all going well....!!!
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Hi Vincent-see station area in front of 087.
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