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Irish Railway Models also appear in this months Railway Modeller !

superb. What fantastic scenes .

Having a go at applying Weshty Studio Scale models details to the A Class. Going to town on this baby. Drilled out the centre headlamp for some directional lighting. Tús Maith leath na hoibre.

love the big sheds too

looking great . nice ballasting work there !

thanks for all the prototypical info guys! Shunting it will be so! I set up my track to follow a slightly boiled down version of Mayners excellent map above. (thanks!!) I will also be building the little odd loading ramp at the track end. By the way Mayner, your coach sides are excellent and will make up the short passenger train that will serve the station ( this is in my fictional world btw when passenger services were kept up on the line)

That is a great photo Patrick thank you very much. Good to see that prototypically both type wagons were coupled together in the same train. Any idea what brake van is on the end there ?

Your ability to detail is excellent. Well done Nelson. Keep up the school work too btw! It is worth it.

Lol , as they say, very good

nice that

man . that looks great.

Was there today for a while. The layouts were really impressive. Plenty of Irish layouts from north and south. The mix of all gauges was superb too. Plenty to enjoy. The o gauge crawfordsburn was mighty indeed. As were the Donegal narrow gauge and the Lucan one and man many others!! I picked up an a/c class detail kit from Weshty and some decals and had a good look at the plough van which I think will be my next stab at a kit. Very nice event. Lots of room to enjoy the exhibits and layouts. Was also really impressed with ECM trains DART. VERY nice ...

thanks for that i ll have a look

just after i took this the central headlight on 190 went out and i cant get it to come on again. I have NCE powercab and it has a hattons chip. Could the led have popped ?

I have been working on the gypsum shed at Kingscourt. Again, I have worked just from photos without measurements etc so it is only an impression of the scene ar kingscourt. here 190 approaches with two wagons for loading. All we need is gypsum and we'd be in business !!!

those look fantastic. might try that

Well a weathered 071 is coming in at 107 sheckles with the discount . Jolly good indeed . Been dying to get 085 for a while. I am a child really 1!!!!!!!!!!!

Get a few of them bulls from the Torres wine and your half way there

Actually really laughing me Arse off here. Wife thinks I m mental.

Oh dear .... Just when I had managed to save a few Sheckles . Once again the exchange rate ain't too bad either !!!!!! Good news but don't tell the missus

mine are gonna be gypsums. however, i am interested in the above conversion for unicorn traffic. Were the unicorns destined for Phoenix Park or Waterford for the livestock market in the middle east ?

wow ! brilliant and a lovely scene too

Thank you very much for the history of the line. I have only cobbled together a few photos and video clips from the web. The track plan is really helpful ! I intend to model both the odd loading ramp for the gypsum but also the later large shed and digger arrangement, It is too tempting not to do both!! I saw an old ordinance survey map with the brickworks marked but had no idea they ran trains out too. Even better,. For now, my trackwork will have to rely on settrack options, perhaps in the future I will try for more authentic lines . I picked kingscourt because it was just curiously odd and unique, but also offered quite a bit of interest train wise, thanjs again !

Thank you all very much. To respond to a few - The bulleid corrugated wagons are Leslie's marvellous kits. Contact Leslie10646 on this forum if you like them ! i like your historical touch Leslie - it will look fantastic. John - I built the buildings myself as I couldnt find any suitable kits. I printed off stone sheets and brick sheets.I had to print the stone in black and white as the only stone that looked right was too yellow. I washed it over with very light black to tone it down and weather it. Roof is Wills slate sheet. If i was doing it again i would make a few improvements. Still needs a downpipe !!

great. hope to be there !