Patrick Davey

If I was wearing a hat, Alan, I would be taking it off!! There is literally no way on earth I would have the ability to do that…. Another great update. Thank you!

Ha now that’s clever!!!

Thanks a mil Kevin, much appreciated

Many thanks to Wilson Adams for these two great (but sad) views of Dunleer station, which will be the basis of Clogherhead station, the two locations being fairly close together in County Louth.

Such a masterpiece Alan - especially the chimney!!!

Now that is just superb!

Updated my post above with the link Kevin. They are great finials, quite close to the GN ones and very robust.

That is an absolute beauty well done! I would like to see photos of your cabin as well? For a previous build, I had used finials from Shapeways, but they were very easily broken, so I have used whitemetal ones for my recent cabin builds, I shall look up the link where I ordered them from and update this post accordingly. That is a really beautiful shelter, and looks like a very neat build, would like to see more! UPDATE: Here is the link to the whitemetal finials I used: https://www.wizardmodels.ltd/shop/buildings/slc012/

The Ratio Midland Railway cabin windows have to have some of the vertical framing removed to match the GN ones and it can be a heart stopping moment each time…..

Yip - the last ones I had, so I’m glad I didn’t break any!

So it’s on to the station building next, which is going to be based on the very attractive example at Dunleer. A lot of Great Northern station buildings had a glazed wooden panel fronting the platform so that’s where I have started. The diagonal boarding was created by gluing together 1 mm plastic strips and cutting them into 10 mm² panels with the strips set at 45°. There is another layer of small windows to go along the top. The panels had sliding doors, so I might fix these in an open position.

Gone to ground now.

A friend on another forum wanted to know who ran the tea rooms and I was able to find out the following information from a Co. Louth local history website: ".....the tea room at Clogherhead station was run by a retired husband and wife team, Earl Grey and Nan Barrie. Their friend's granddaughter would occasionally help out at busy times, she was called Miss Kipling - she was fifteen and exceedingly good at her job but sadly they had to let her go due to her fondness for putting her hair in a bun. There was also a Miss Cherry and she would definitely bake well but some of her products were a bit crepe. The tea house was very popular with visiting troops of brownies and it did well until the 1970s when it hit a bit of a rocky road and the turnover began to crumble."

Great suggestion @leslie10646 - it would surely have sash windows?

Tea room completed. Pity it’s closed, looks like it would have been a nice spot for a coffee and an iced diamond….

I can certainly vouch for it being grey Alan, they have definitely captured the livery very well in my humble opinion!

Had the great pleasure of a quick visit to LQ this evening and I met the new J15 in person, a very impressive model! Couldn’t resist bringing my latest A class acquisition along as well, re-creating a scene which may well have happened from 1955 onwards?

Thanks Alan: they are all originals by someone called Scalescenes Downloads......

My obsession for interior detail returns…..and I just had to create skylights, so it might be seen!

Some basic interior detailing being added to the pavilion along with roof lettering.

CLOGHERHEAD TRACKPLAN Here's a rough idea of the trackplan so far, using an 'aerial' photo of the roughly-positioned track. The site is bordered on the left and top by a road, which may have some low relief buildings. Not a lot of trees in this plan due to the exposed location. Passenger trains enter from under the classic scenic break overbridge to the left, cross the double slip and stop at the platform, the loco runs round (just enough space in the headhunt for an A class loco!) then takes the train out again. The platform will be longer than I can show in this plan. Sand wagons can be brought into the headhunt below the pavilion (which will be on a higher level) and shunted down to the sand store. The beach completes the plan. Edit: There won't be as many straight lines as shown here!

Just superb!!!! Worth the effort!!! Well done Ken.

I had thought about that one, but I thought it was too obvious, even for me!

There will be more sand than ballast between the sleepers

Following on from my 'Rumblings' thread...... I now have a plan for a new layout. Staying with the GNR(I), I'm heading down to County Louth for a fictional seaside terminus, at Clogherhead. The idea is that the history of this branch closely mirrors that of the nearby Ardee branch, being a late opener and early closer to regular passenger services, but the seaside location gave an advantage in that excursions remained fairly consistent until final closure in 1975, and there was also a steady traffic in sand which the GNR (and later CIE) were licensed to extract from the nearby beach (probably totally implausible but works for me!) The layout will be set in the decaying 1970s, a perfect setting for my black & tan IRM & MM stock. The layout will have the following: * 6ft x 2ft baseboard (built a long time ago for a previous layout) * DCC - chips have been acquired! * Passenger terminus - GNR(I) polychrome brick * Derelict signal cabin - built (pic below) * Sand store * Seaside pavilion - under construction (pics below) The branch would have been worked from Drogheda, and left the GN mainline a few miles north of Drogheda, to swing east and enter Clogherhead from the south, with the terminus being located beside the beach: I can already hear the seagulls........