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Fantastic as usual Richie....looking forward to the end result....!!! You may have another client on the list yet for one.

Here is 087 at Westport station earlier today-it's first visit in five years. 087 has been uncoupled from the timber train and is slowly making its way back to the short siding at the station.

Thank you Stephen and Stephen...

Another view from the opposite direction... Platform 1 is a bay platform, The Mk2 set is parked on Platform 2,there are lots of options here for operations and I plan to recreate lots of Knock special arrivals and departures along with the regular passenger train services and of course the Ballina branch train will make appearances in the various forms e.g 1980s Park royals to the Cravens.

Good morning gentlemen, A progress report from the new Tara jctn, All track has been connected and currently I have a six coach CIE super train Mk2 set and an Enterprise EGV conducting gauge clearance work I expect to have power connected over the weekend and have some loco hauled movements early next week.

Very realistic running over those points Irishthump....keep up the good work.

Agreed- definatly a more realistic colour....nice one Anthony

And Claremorris station...platforms are capable of holding six Cravens/Mk2 coaches Again it's just a mock up for the time being.

Afternoon gentlemen, I see its three years ago today since I started this thread about Tara junction, Time flies when your having fun... Thank you to all who have contributed to this thread.... I'm after moving house and getting married...!!! I'm delighted to say that herself granted planning permission for the NEW model railway room which is 14'x10' Work has been taken place over the last few weeks building baseboards etc and moving Tara jctn to its new home, As I've increased space it has really given me lots of options including a new lower level which I initially plan to have some storage yards and ultimately a small end to end branch line beneath the main layout-both levels will be connected, The upper level will have a variation of Claremorris station at one side-(with some minor alterations),a MPD at another side,a DMU and carriage depot opposite that and of course a small freight terminal, Like Tara jct.-I aim to be able to operate four trains at the one time while being able to shunt freight/passenger coaches in the various sidings, Having been bitten by the DCC bug-it will be operated by that system, As I said above its early days and of course I'll be posting updates as work progresses.

Lovely job on the locos on the shed Rebelred,looks a busy MPD.

I attended this Exhibition earlier today for the first time and was delighted I did, There were some fabulous layouts on show-Bleach green layout is breathtaking for its detail, I also loved the Lisburn and Belturbot layouts, Lots of trade stands and some bargains too Well done to everyone concerned, Well worth a visit. An 071 and some CPWs pass through"Lisburn".

Looks great and the layout is looking well too Eamonn.

The excellent Rathmichael layout.

I visited this exhibition earlier and can highly recommend it, A great selection of layouts on show and some excellent bargains to be had at the various trade stands-(thank you Seamus Graham) Layouts that done it for me were Rathmichael OO gauge,Joseph's bridge OO gauge,Heathfield and Llangollen N gauge. Nice to meet baseboard Dave, Murrayec and Brian Collins with his excellent range of road vehicles-looking forward to his future release of the Bus Eireann Expressway liveried SP111.

Looking forward to this exhibition-always well organised, and easy to get around :tumbsup:best of luck to all concerned.

A mixture of both John

Double post.

When I seen it in Inchicore a few years ago it was gutted,I'll dig out the photos I took of her for you, I honestly thought she would never run again, I have very fond memories of her working Ballina branch trains 10 years or so ago-it was a regular performer on the branch set along with 079.

Released to traffic last week after an absence of nearly four years out of service-and at one stage thought to be one of the first 071s that was about to be scrapped, Here we see a refurbished 0117087 coupled to the IWT liner in Ballina freight yard.