Kirley

Progress continues around Kirley Junction Station area doing the scenics but it is slow work. As a diversion new Shale Wagons arrived at the weekend from Hidden Agenda and I had to show them off. The wagons are very well constructed and smooth runners. Here is a short video showing them and the area found Kirley Junction Station.

Great to see so many new layouts been posted. Good luck Dave, I’ll not offer any suggestions as I’m sure there is a rough plan already formed in your mind.

You have amassed a lot of stock already, good luck on your layout, keep the pictures coming.

Neat. Looking forward to more pics.

Very atmospheric, the lighting and sound together.

Tara Junction's usual high standard - everything about this layout is so good.

At this rate you will soon be starting your layout Vincent.

It’s a delightful layout, every time you look at it you see something different, there is so much detail. Thanks for posting.

Hi George, That’s a great idea. Perhaps after the Cork event may I suggest linking in with two of the main shows, Bangor in April and Dublin in Halloween making use of the show venues?

I saw an article in Model Rail where they weathered a Corgi Excavator. I decided to have a go at a Ruston Bucyrus Crane. I seem to have a thing for Cranes at the moment

Thanks Dave for the kind offer, I was looking on the internet, £1.60 including postage, where as postage from your location would probably cost more. Thanks anyway.

Thanks Stephen for the information on the microswitch, now I'll have to go searching on the Net for one

Looking at a picture of the 30 ton it appears to be both a shorter jib and a smaller engine housing plus the loss of a pony truck as you modelled it.

Your bridge is a great idea, looking forward to seeing it operational. I am interested in your micro switch as I would like to use one on my layout, can you provide more details please?

Anyone who is acquiring a Sulzer Model from SSM may be interested in this article on Sulzers in Ireland. http://www.derbysulzers.com/cie.html

I was searching on the web for more pictures on the CIE cranes and came across the following: Steam Power replaced by Diesel Found on the Breakdown Crane Association web site where it quotes, “However the two which had been sold in 1973 to CIE (Ireland) and re-gauged were scrapped in 2009” (See http://www.bdca.org.uk/steamreplaced.html) Also on the “old Site” there were questions on the CIE Breakdown Trains in Dec 2010- http://irishrailwaymodeller.yuku.com/reply/1208/Re-Steam-Crane-Inchicore

I did not realise British Railways containers were run on Irish Railwways. Nice find.

What would I do with the other Hunslets?

Thanks for clarifying that Dave

Very impressive

Anthony -good to see you are still posting away after your scare yesterday and overnight hospital stay. Your resilience in the face of adversity is amazing, hope there are no after effects. By the way I’ve PM’ed Glenderg re your kind offer to collect the station canopy from him on Dec 8th.

Well done Heirflick, how long have you been hiding this gem?

Thanks for the tutorial John it was very helpful to see how it is done and making etched brass kits not so scary.

Was this set also issued in Dec 2003?

Schalane if you can get photos please post them especially if it shows spacer trucks. I have a Hornby breakdown crane in the roofspace and I was wondering on the possibility of modelling this crane, the Hornby is 75 ton while CIE’s train was 35 ton. Hornby BR Breakdown Crane (R6602) The Hornby breakdown crane model dates from 1971 and is based on a 75 ton rail-crane built by Cowans-Sheldon & Company Ltd of Carlisle. Twelve of the cranes were ordered by British Railways in 1960, ten of them steam driven and two powered by diesel engines. They were the most powerful lifting cranes in Britain at that time. Like the real cranes, the model includes a jib-runner and two spacer trucks. When the model had first been introduced, the jib-runner had been a conversion of a flat wagon from cheap 'starter' train sets of the 1960s. From 1988 this was replaced by the 'Winkle' plate wagon, introduced in 1972, but suitably converted to provide a bar on which the jib could rest. The set includes four ‘L’ shaped jack arms that plug into the side of the sides of the chassis, to stabilise the crane when lifting heavy objects. There is also a separate chimney. Over the years there have been at least ten versions of the model, most of them either red or yellow. The recently released version is red and numbered TDM1093 and the jib-runner is numbered BD956528.