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Right! The summers over, the holidays done, the kids back at school and SWMBO likewise! Work can re-commence on Amiens Street! Not much has changed over the summer, other than the stock was cleared off the layout and a bit of a tidy was done. I'm hoping to clear the shed, so I can clear the rest of the attic in the coming week-10 days. This will let me remove the stock boxes to the storage end of the attic and allow me to commence building the rest of the mainline loop and branches. There have been a few trackplan tweaks over the summer, which I'll draw up and post shortly, I'm also contemplating swapping the original freight sidings and the coach sidings around. The freight sidings are between 6-6.5ft long, which is ample for most trains (happily take 6mkIIIs and maybe an EGV) but tight for freight (10 pocket wagons = no no). By swapping around I get three sidings that can near enough take full rakes, that have access to all platforms, and three 9.5 foot long freight sidings that wont give out about taking 10 container flats, pocket wagons, or whatever. The only trade off is that the pilot would need to shunt all freight rakes into platform 6 and be released by the loco taking the freight.... not entirely sure how prototypical that is Will post pics later today of what the carriage sheds look like alongside the SHED!

Wow - just beautiful stuff!

Lovely job lads - looks great and lovely to see the stock range all laid out to peruse!!

Love it!

Well spotted Anthony! Bloody hell they look good for lookie-likies!

Beautiful - love the Hunslet!

Great video - aye the A's are quite wide!

I love the cackle of laughter from the driver filming! ;0

Some lovely shots! Any video of stock moving? Looking great!

Very sorry to hear of your loss Seamus

The seeps (and generally the latching type solenoids) run on DC - ie: Analog. You need a DC circuit to manage them - they don't take power from the DCC bus

Great videos!!!

Unless you run with DCC motors, then you hook them to the DCC bus, give them an address and just call them up when you need em. The throw much more slowly too, and quiet, more like the real thing.

The plan would be to amalgamate the data here with that already contributed by Dave and others at http://www.irishrailmodels.com

Lovely little wagon

I also have a banged up hornby 040 I use for testing - it's already carrying lots of battle wounds, and with the short wheel base its an ideal test loco

Can't go wrong for 11 quid each. A can of yellow from halfords and you've a semi decent NIR ballast rake !

Certainly a stable of all three NIR 071's with the 201s would provoke a swing in the blue direction

Brilliant videos! Like watching an alien world !

Great write up Fran!

No worries, all you need to do is copy the youtube link from you address bar You need the bit that looks like this if there is anything after the v=XXXX string, you can leave it out. Then just click in the Video Icon in the post, paste in the link, and the forum will embed the vid!

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