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3. How many rail termini had Cork city, like? There was 9 termini 10 if you include the tram depot. 1. Victoria - terminal before the tunnel was built. 2. Penrose Quay (before Glanmire rd.) 3. Summerhill. 4. Glanmire Rd (Kent) 5. Albert Quay. 6. Albert st. 7. Victoria Rd. 8. Capwell. 9. Western Rd. The Midleton line also terminated at different locations during its construction but mostly outside the city limits.

4. St Molaga and Argadeen on the West Cork line.

1. Limerick Junction. Apparently Limerick is a lady, although I have my doubts!

1. Queenstown junction- after Victoria's visit. 4. The a class's all had unofficial names, not sure if that counts. 5. Queenstown junction - Cobh junction - Glounthaune.

Nice piece of kit john well done.

The colouring on that stone work looks great, its coming together really well.

nice job on the ballasting. Love the speed markers and electric boxes as well, really brings it to life.

Fantastic looking, I presume its card, I'd love to hear a little description on the build process.

Looking good there Timmy, plenty of space to work with, keep us updated.

Looking at various discussions on the RM web site, it seems people are split between the peco and seep motors, so I suppose it all boils down to personal experience and preference. The tortoise look the best but are way too expensive for me so I think given price and the fact the seep have a built in micro switch I'm going to take a chance on them. There seems to be some issue on how good the seep micro switch is so if that becomes an issue later on I presume I could replace the switch with separate ones like the V3 Style Alarm Tamper Switch from maplin. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=20406

Wonderful detail, looks great.

Thanks Dave, love to see how you get on with the control panels.

Thanks for all the advise lads, I think I'll go with the Seep motors purely on price. Thanks Dave for the links, helps a lot. Do I need a Capacitor discharge unit for each point or is one enough?? and what does it do anyway, excuse my ignorance on this!

Any advise on what point motors should I buy for my layout. I'm trying to keep the price down as much as possible and to be honest I haven't a clue when it comes to this stuff. I was looking at the Peco motors vs the Tortoise ones and was wondering which would work out cheaper in the long run. Also apart from the point motor what all else is required for both Peco and Tortoise in terms of (twin micro switches, mounting plates, toggle switches) all of which I'm getting bogged down in. The layout is dcc and I'm using Peco electrofrog code 75 in which I'll require about 30 motors. Thanks Sean.

top class, its going to look fantastic when finished.

Top marks Richie, well done.

Great conversion job, can't wait to see it finished.

Love that internal running shed shot.

Always nice to see some scratch building going on, well done.

Unfortunately the only space available to me is the attic so I'll just have to live with it, but to be honest it didn't seem that bad even during the resent heat wave. Perhaps a well stocked fridge with beer would help!!

I hear ya on that one, although the foil has made a massive difference to the temperature flux. Thanks for all the kind comments, hopefully I won't disappoint.

Well I finally sorted out my attic space and got a start on my new layout. Its taken a bit longer than I thought, a new fold out stairs put in, the water tank moved to the back of the attic, proper insulation put in and foil reflectors, floored the space and have fixed the layout base boards between the trusses, so now we're ready to rock and roll. After playing around with the free version of anyrail, I decided to buy the software. Its a great little package for designing layouts and its easy to get up to speed with it fairly quickly. My layout is based loosely on Cork station taken up an era somewhere between '75 to '95 which should give me plenty of leeway to run plenty of stock. As space was a major issue I have designed the layout as a loop incorporating all the major parts of the station, goods yard and approach's. I've bought half the track I need (Peco code 75) to allow me to start building the goods yard side of the loop. Its going to be DCC which poses a huge learning curb for me as its my first layout build since I was but a wee lad so expect plenty of questions for the experts out there particularly on track laying.

The cab view is excellent, coming along nicely.

nice addition to the layout. keep them coming.

Lovely job with great atmosphere. Not sure about that palm tree though, looks more at home in Hawaii than the west of Ireland variation you see!