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Horsetan
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Limerick Junction track layout/ signalling plan 1975-85
Horsetan replied to Junctionmad's question in Questions & Answers
Grand!! Do let us see your drawings. I have a feeling that some of us might want to have a go at Claremorris - or parts of it - ourselves in future -
...and they work. I picked up a kit to do the Prototype Deltic, and another for the Hymek. The prospect of Irish diesel sprung bogie kits is surely tempting.
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That would be a shunting challenge without equal.
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I'm sure they'll be worth it - and everyone will wonder why they hadn't thought of it before. I was looking at Penbits, which makes P4-compatible sprung suspensions for diesel bogies. Next time I see them at a show (probably next April/May), I'll ask if they'd consider Irish diesels, especially for 21mm gauge.
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Limerick Junction track layout/ signalling plan 1975-85
Horsetan replied to Junctionmad's question in Questions & Answers
It certainly was before the track layout was rationalised and everything went CTC in recent years. There must be some sort of building plans for Claremorris in existence in an archive somewhere, otherwise it's going to have to be a case of asking IE/IR's permission to measure up the various structures.... -
I take it you've given up on doing Limerick Junction, then.
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Limerick Junction track layout/ signalling plan 1975-85
Horsetan replied to Junctionmad's question in Questions & Answers
In other words, "Limerick Junction is the maddest thing we've yet seen." Even the partial diagrams in this thread are like spaghetti. -
I had a go at the second one, but forgot about it.
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:banana:
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He'll build one for ye. All he needs is the info from ye.....and some money. Kerrygold.
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A brand-new Dacia will cost ye less than a 4mm scale engine built by Stella Artois.
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Here's his details: Rod Cooper, The Halt, Roshven, Lochailort, Invernesshire PH38 4NB Tel +44 1687 470284
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Tempted?
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If you can afford Rocar coaches, you can also afford to commission "Stella Artois" to build your engines. Prices start at a few grand. Something like a GSR "800" 4-6-0 would most likely cost five figures, with the decimal point after....
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Loads. At least 400 quid a coach. But yer man puts everything into it - working gangways, curtains, carpeting.....the works.
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Unfortunately, you need the boxes for things like that. Coaches like that are so expensive, you'd be afraid to run them....and certainly not at a show where you'd be paranoid they'd get stolen. Mind, though, Golden Age coaches are cheap (and not very well-detailed) compared to the ones made by this fella
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Probably just a placeholder 'cos he has none in stock.
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It looks like the shed office was extended rather than being a completely new building. You can still see the original brick/stonework and windows on the 1960 photo.
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There'll always be some driver trying to jump the gun regardless. The only way to stop them is to shoot them.
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Interestingly, Hollywood Foundry does sell a 21mm x 21mm motor bogie, but it's for 12mm gauge.... There is an alternative DIY kit that they supply, though, and it seems that you can build it in 21mm gauge as well.... Interesting, but feckin' expensive. Here it is.
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Certainly does....
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Excellent. Thanks to the man there.
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Does anyone know what the wheelbase measurement of the Railroad 55 bogie actually is?
