Patrick Davey

Always look forward to your updates Patrick and this one is as good as any! Super atmosphere.

Sent you a PM John

I haven't been overly happy with this little chap, a disused kiosk I built for my beach: So I decided to replace it with a more detailed one, assembled from items in the spares box:

Time to give this one some traction again....... only because over on the Railway Modellers Ireland Facebook group, Fran revealed that there would be an 'all-new' IRM announcement in the next few weeks. The Bangor show is approaching so could it be timed to coincide, could it be a long-awaited steam announcement (aren't there actually at least two of these?) and might there be a northern connection (surely a BCDR connection is too much to hope for )? I'm still thinking one of the steam announcements will be RPSI-related..... No active countdown widget on the IRM site at the moment......

Cracking platforms!

Cheers B

Thanks again Ernie for a lovely selection of photos.

Absolutely love the small shed!! Can you imagine the cosy atmosphere in there on a hard winter's night in 1947, with a couple of loco crew having a cuppa and warming themselves by the gas stove before heading out into the driving snow to make the long walk across to Grosvenor Road goods yard to take the overnight goods train over the Derry Road.......

Some small but impressive detail items going onto the layout tomorrow, resin prints by Owen O’Neill. Lovely!!! The dodgy paint job is mine

Ah!

That looks fabulous, any more pictures?

Oops, I have either missed those or forgotten Can’t find the post either, can you tag me or share again?

Any clues on the era or region, Leslie? You have been very generous with us GNR folks recently, so I imagine it might be something to counterbalance that…..?

Brookhall Mill will be there both days

A builder friend once told me that before the current build has finished, he always starts looking ahead to the next one, and so it is now, as Clogherhead nears completion...... I have changed the title of this thread to reflect the new plan. I built a non-working diorama of Capecastle a few years back but regrettably I had to dismantle it and my mother and son haven't let me forget that, so I need to right that wrong. The plan is to rebuild Capecastle but as was discussed earlier in this thread, to do so in a larger scale, probably O gauge using Peco O-16.5 track although this is still a bit narrow for the Irish 3ft narrow gauge. The big difference here is that I will definitely be making the layout operational and after careful consideration, and having reluctantly decided to park the S class compound plan, I have decided to aim for one of the 060 saddle tanks which were provided for the opening of the Ballycastle line in 1880, and named 'Dalriada' and 'Countess of Antrim'. I will most probably go for the second named because I have a photograph of my great-grandfather on the footplate of this locomotive at Ballycastle - he was a driver on the line in its independent days. Alan Nixon @Tullygrainey has suggested that a Hornby Peckett 060 could provide a fairly good donor chassis: The rear driving wheels aren't quite spaced the same but the cylinders are very close, particularly the slight slant. I would be confident that I could build a body for the locomotive from plasticard and metal fittings. The cogs are turning........

Thanks David - it's one of Leslie's PW kits so all transfers came with the kit I think?

Busy late GNR scenes at Clogherhead with T2 442t no. 64 preparing to depart for Dublin with a special.

A few more views from around the layout today.

Super progress, fabulous layout

Sure - am no DCC expert though but someone here will know more

On July 4th 1945, a visit was made to Brookhall Mill by a special publicity unit of the US Army, supposedly to acknowledge the role the mill played in the war effort. The exact nature of this role has never been fully revealed and repeated attempts by historians to access closed government files have been thwarted. There must be a story there somewhere...... (Otherwise known as 'a flimsy excuse to build some classic Airfix models' (although the staff car actually came from a model company in Ukraine.....)

Love the upholstery! Insanely good work on this unit, as always!!

Looking well - keep the updates coming!

Fabulous videos @Dempsey, this is my kind of layout, compact, great detail and plenty of operating potential! Am with @ttc0169 though on the sound chip, it sounds a bit different from mine...?