LNERW1

It says something about my total ignorance of 3ft gauge up north that I never knew there was narrow gauge in Larne. A fascinating view though, my head is swimming with modelling possibilities.

Clips24-10-19_07-54.mov Also does anyone have a photo of the interior of a permanent way hut? Anywhere in the world works, preferably 40s/50s/60s. Thanks.

Great as always, love the 121! I can't say I've seen too many colour pics of them in grey.

Video posted later, but how do I get the body off of a Mainline 57’ LMS coach? There seems to be clips holding it on but I can’t figure out where…

I sometimes wonder whether it’s just one person making all of this. You have too much spare time Gibbo! Your layout looks very interesting too. I’m guessing it represents one of the endless junctions on the West Coast Main Line (or West Coast Main Web as the case may be). You don’t seem to be one for scenery, though. I don’t suppose I blame you. Best of luck as always. LNERW1

Well isn't that convenient. In fairness if you're coming in from the south or west as I think a lot of us are, bus is quicker anyway. Not denying it's a pain for loads of people though. Hopefully it doesn't spoil anyone's plans.

I'm betting (and hoping) C Class. If steam there's a few options but maybe a WT as there's a lot of standardised components meaning elements of the tooling could be reused for future IRM and Accurascale releases.

The Belgian farmer who technically moved the French-German border about 3m when he moved a stone marking the border because it was on the way of his tractor, or the Czech COVID checkpoint accidentally set up 50 metres into Poland, are good examples of border f**kery.

Transnistria, a gap between the current and original course of the Dniester river, claimed by neither of its neighbours (Moldova, to the west, claims the original, western course to be the true border, while Ukraine, to the east, cliams the eastern course to be so), has declared itself a state, undergoing a war of independence ending in a treaty to which Moldova, Ukraine and Russia were party, is a great example of people taking the chance to establish a country. Sealand is a much more harmless and playful example, a Maunsell Fort* claimed by the Bates family. *A number of offshore platforms built off of Anglia and in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during WWII. The most well known are probably Sealand (HM Fort Roughs) and Redsands (U6), which has been used for filming Dr Who and Danger Man, IIRC, and was home to Radio 390, one of several pirate stations located on the forts.

As the author of this thread and builder of the railway it concerns, I am ashamed that there has been so little activity here for so long. I hope you understand that life can get in the way of things and a garden railway is no small undertaking- tantamount to building a real line, in the real world, dealing with nature and a hostile environment that is not predisposed to model railways. Progress on this has been halted time and time again by the fact that I seem to think I am building just an ordinary model railway that happens to be located outdoors. So many times have I given this challenge a model railway approach, and not a real railway one. I see now where and why my mistakes were made, and I will try to build on this to deliver something close to what I promised when I started this thread. Thank you and please bear with me while I try and work all this out.

Re conspiracies- anyone have any advice on how to get my friend to shut up about P Diddy and all the famous people who went to his parties etc? It is getting a bit annoying..

Re thread name- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBJrV6OCc9U

Oh god save us…

In fairness it looks like a higher-end AI software, so at least they’re not being completely lazy. Anything involving AI is 9 times out of 10 a load of shite.

I find this really interesting. As of early 2024 I think they only had a figure-8 or so of track going for tourism but keep in mind the entire line still undergoes basic maintenance. It’d be a brilliant tourist operation if the whole thing was running. “Little tube” or the like. Unlikely to happen but we can dream.

Look, I’m not one to accuse but I’ve heard “Sister Matic” before from a well-known British comedian, you’re not stealing jokes are you? Tut-tut-tut…

Thanks JHB, all very helpful as always. Re 121s not often being seen on a branch, I thought I’d twist history a little. Galway-Ardree in my version of history was a more important line, as is evidenced by its closure as late as 1971 as opposed to a much earlier 50s or 60s closure. A single 121 was allocated to the branch for often very long full-line pickup goods, dropping most of its train off at Ardree before bringing the last five or so wagons down the last half mile or so to Ardree Quay station, the reason being few of the train times lined up with boat times and the quayside had little storage to cope with the entire train being left there. Generally only goods intended to be used by quayside merchants, traders, workers, ships etc were actually brought as far as the quay with the morning pickup goods, with most of the rest of the goods being unloaded and brought on to the ship by lorry. This is a nice little excuse for having little Irish goods stock as well as minimal goods facilities at Ardree Quay. Maybe this practice might change when I have enough wagons, who knows? And Re SR/UTA/CIÉ green, you are of course correct but I do think Maunsell is closer than Bulleid for CIÉ. To my untrained eye it looks the exact same and the camera probably won’t see it either, so hopefully no problems until/if/when I bring the layout to an exhibition.

@jhb171achill need a hand please, is grey OK for a 121 in 1963-69? I know green went (nominally) in 62/3, but would grey have lasted longer? Keep in mind this is a rural line as well, and I don’t mind bending history a little to fit what I have. In my history the 121 arrived in ‘62, so maybe just before wholesale black ‘n’ tan repaints, and left in ‘65. Could I get away with grey in that case? Thanks in advance, LNERW1.

That went over my head the first time I read it…

GTA VI leaked features?

"And what think thee of yonder reunion?" "My friend, thou shalt see the land of mine f**ks, and thou shalt see that it is barren." Let's face it none of us ended up getting tickets so what was the fuss anyway.

I understand all of this. Being an adolescent in this day and age sucks, and I know because I turned 14 on Sunday. It’s hard not to be angry with how much this happens, but it’s harder not to be angry with how fucked-up it is that this is normal now, that this world has made this happen. This is due to society. But I think we can still be angry at the perpetrators. Nobody’s innocent here, the people who did it, the people who caused it and the people who are getting so angry about it, including me. We all need to step back and see this could be partially our fault. Yes we need to make it harder for this to happen, yes we need to help people from getting to a place where they do this, yes we need to fix it, to punish them to a degree, to stop this environment that creates them from forming in the first place. Be angry about it, you deserve to be. But also, sit down and think about why this happened. Think how you can help people who do this because they are lost and have no way to call out for that help. This isn’t black and white or a simple case of right or wrong. Think about this. The DCDR is a victim here, but maybe there are more victims in this situation. Note: i retract my above short angry rant, you understand I’m sick of this happening now.

People like this don’t understand putting work into anything. For all my waffle about disturbed teens and acting out etc. this is pointless and I just don’t see why you’d bother if not to just be a pain. I suppose we’re lucky it’s just broken glass and not fire like has happened recently on, IIIRC, the Bo’Ness and Kinneil. I wish I had money to donate to DCDR to help.

On the topic of accents, I’ve heard a story that sometime, maybe a few decades prior to the beginning of the plantations, a British court set up in an English-speaking pocket somewhere in Cork. After a while there were complaints to those that had sent them there. “These people speak Irish, we can’t understand them.” An interpreter was sent over, and after arriving at the court he very quickly clarified that they were not, in fact, speaking Irish, but just had a Cork accent.

Definitely. BR(S) green I believe is darker than SR green so you could use an equivalent paint to that if modelling the UTA.