Does anyone know what the small metal clamps behind the modern buffers are? I assume from their appearance and location they are designed to 'brake' the buffer should it ever get hit and move?
Don't suppose anyone makes a whitemetal or something version?
Example of the concrete block type http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20S/Sallins/slides/Sallins_20090601_015_CC_JA.html
(probably easy enough to bash?)
I love buffers
Would like to open a chat on the various options available for modellers - from 'RTP' (ready to plonk) to white metal kits, brass etchings, resin castings - that represent irish or irish-able buffers in all their glory
Some general updates, have been busy mainly laying mainline!
Some shots of the now complete station throat / junction with the mainline and a relatively quiet terminus with a single A rumbling on platform 5 with a local service.
.. Planning, a years work so far and the efforts, help, advice, stock painting, weathering, baseboard building and modeling of a great many members on here too
The mainline now stretches from the main terminus throat around to Blackrock Junction, double line, and in the other direction all the way around to the branch junction just after the viaduct, and just before the incline...
14 lengths of flex track droppered, 6 points prepped, droppered and adjusted and a partridge in the pear tree
Felt proud of my 45 minutes soldering, so while there are no photos, felt I should post
This should be enough now for the laying of the mainline loop (single track for now)!
As well as the current 071's in NIR, and the forthcoming 201 (hopefully), you've got C Class from Silverfox (NIR 106 / ex CIE 227) as well as the Class 70 repaint giving you a decent CAF 3k/4k.
Gatwick stock is a repaint, and there are lovely DD options now, that can run behind any 201 class...