tonybonneyba

Since you will be using BEMO HOm coaches, make sure you've got enough money to fund them. At about 40 quid each (or more), they're not exactly cheap.

 

General rule of HO or HOm is that, if buying new, anything Swiss outline is going to be very expensive.

I'm still thinking about it. If I find cheaper, I'll get it.

He did say 600 - but £ or €?

I read €600

^^ I have decided, I have decided that I'm going use TT/HOm for the narrow gauge branch line & 00 guage for the the mainline & dual gauge for the branch line to depot. The whole idea of this model railway is to be realistic but at the same time be fictional.

Eg. "The 3ft gauge branch line from Meganthreu to Port Eiréanis was originally ran by the GNRI in partnership with CIE, but both companies no longer wanted to ran it, so the Manx Northern Railway Co. bought the partnership in 1948. The branch line has been ran by the the MNRC ever since. The branch line is operated by two trains, one in each direction. It holds three locomotives, No. 21, the newest diesel loco, No. 22 & a steam engine. The branch line is operated with one steam engine & one diesel, or if the steam engine is getting works done or a rest, two diesels. One train is operated with a dining service while the other is a carparment train. The branch line has five stations, those are,

•Meganthreu

•River Nore

•Ballynawood

•Bridge End

&

•Port Eiréanis".

The model railway layout I'm building will hold the stations & the branch line from River Nore to Bridge End.

Coaches: I think I have found suitable coaches to be the diner coaches from that German (?) website that was posted in this thread a while back. With slit modification & repaint, I think it'll work.

Locos:

I hope to scratch build a body for the doner locomotive chasia on eBay to make it look close or just like IOMR No.21

The other locomotive will also have a scratch build body for another doner chasia (still looking) to the similar design of 21 but with out the narrow walk way.

The steam locomotive is a standard IOMR steam locomotive from Oxford Die-cast, being in shops next year, but only available in IOMR stations & museum. .

I hope this clears things up for you David, Mayner & Horse tan. My second question was only for the carparment coaches.

But thanks for the help & advice anyways.

Would it not be possible to put a 009 kit body on a HOm/TT frame?

Your right, that coach would look exlecent in GNRI

I remember visiting the model railway when I was younger with my nana & granda back in 2006/7. Best model railway I had ever seen & it was al, Irish based trains

It was also my first time riding a tram.

Nice Garden Scale Loco there Tony

That's actually a 3 foot guage locomotive, it's a class 550 (/MP550) , built in 2013 for the isle man railway company for thunderbird, PWD & charter duties & costed £400,000.00 (£0.4m). She has worked the 2014 transport festival charter trains & a dinner special. She has had some heck ups because of being a brand new locomotive & is currently get repaired.

Right, let's skip over my bad English ( I can speak it perfectly fine btw)....

I have finished the MMI connection & need put it on the locomotive, which I'll do once some problems get sorted out (I'm not going say what they are as I'm going send them off to somewhere to get fixed) on the locomotive. While I send off the locomotive to that some where, I'm going start scratch building the first narrow gauge locomotive, some of you's might know what locomotive it is, some of you might not. It is the IOMR new diesel locomotive No.21 (which is similar in design to a 141).

No.21 at the test track in the factory in the USA. Press release photo from the manufacturers website, railsoultions.com

I have found a good priced locomotive for a donor chasia on eBay. http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/381477286902

Once I buy that, I can start scratch building the locomotive.

Would ye nearly be better scratch building or kit bashing?

If there a kit, I'll use it, but finding one is like finding a 111 in Cork. I'll think about scratch building a carriage (which I'm not sure about doing) when I scratch build my first locomotive, No.21.

I've used Trainz 12 & rail works. I stay away from the latest Trainz version so that the Irish stock work (it was a right pain in the arse to get the 80 class working).

Would it be cheaper to buy the peco coaches & put them on TT guage underframes (with modifications)?

The type if coach in question:

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/PECO-009-Hoe-Gauge-Rolling-Stock-L-B-Brake-Composite-Passenger-Coach-SR-/161436082562?nav=SEARCH

Is it possible to reguage 00-9 (9mm) to TT / HOm (12mm) scale? (Coaches & wagons)?

As finding suitable carriages in TT/HOm scale is becoming difficult where the suitable is in 00-9 by peco.

That's quite a mixture, Tony!

Indeed it is! But I can't wait to do my first loco build & my first proper layout build.

#excited

Spelling mistake... it's 'visitors', not 'vistiors'.

You should also correct Gsr 800 then.

The vistiors were not pleased.. But the layout design is looking good! What era are you planning?

"The vistiors were not pleased.." ?? <- I'm confused

Thank you! I'm glad you like it. The era is between 2005 & late 2015, but please do remember it's a fictional layout based around on a couple of fictional towns around the border of the north & south if Ireland with a 3ft gauge branch line operated by the Isle Of Man Railway (in partnership with NIR & IÉ)which goes through the town of Ballynawood as a tram type line (like Alexander Rd in Dublin).

I which you much luck

Thank you!

Right, here's the plan for the next few months:

Get the MMI connection on the 201 (8208) & at the correct size (currently slightly too big)

Get the MKIV test train sorted

Skip the DD

Build a locomotive at HOm scale (equivalent to 3ft) based on the IOM "class 550", No.21 AKA, Isle of Man no.21

Then once these are done, I should able start into the layout

Which me luck

Speak of NG....

I will use Tilling when it comes to the dual then Peco when it's the actual line its self (unless Peco make dual too). I know there's a height difference between Tilling & Peco, but I think I've came up with a solution, which is filling a very fine ramp in the Peco track since it's the highest to the correct height to the tilling track, then polish it silty.

Okay, thanks all

JHB, I'll take a look now, thanks

On the new layout that I will be building a narrow Guage bit & hope to have part of it integrated in the main line (to allow the locos to go to the locomotives shed). The 00 gauge track will act as 5ft 3 inches, so what Guage of track will act as 3ft? HOm? 00-9? Where can I get such track?

Help would be much appreciated, anything that does will will be shown in " Anthony's Workshop ".

Thanks,

Tony.

A few at the front - one anyway - but normally on the back.

Thank you

I wonder if Bachmann will ever do Irish stuff again? It'll be simple for them to do 22ks (sorry fo swearing! ), c4ks & c3ks as they can do this from the 170 shell with modifications here & there. They can also use the 150 shell for the 450 class & 2600 class (again, with modifications) & there is absolutely no excuse for IÉ & NIR mk1's & mk2's not being on the market as its just as simple as spraying them in factory.

Or, spend a little more..... http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/112-2600-class-railcars

Or spend a little less & respray a class 150 & little modifications here & there.... Not that I've done... Yet!

Did the ACE / 2600 class have the exhaust attached to the rear beside the gangway like the BR 105 or underfloor?

That's the diagrams done, (with one or two spelling mistakes) , now to back to the MMI connections & sheds/station building.... Any tips for the station build would be much appreciated.

Interesting head / tail light....

So Holyfast is a terminus, a bit like Cookstown was. Could it be somewhere the NCC and the GNR both came into from different directions, or maybe the GNR and a northern extension of the MGWR....

 

The MGWR had some fine red brick stations like Ballynahinch (Co Galway), Ballyvary, or Mallaranny... Maybe it's an ex MGWR building in your scenario which end up in the north after partition in 1921.

If I understand of what you are saying, then yes by modern day terms of course. The station will be the terminus for some enterprise services, NIR services and some IÉ services, it'll also be the main station for DCDR Mainline / GNDR (Great Northern Down Railway). You could be be right, you could be wrong, I haven't as of yet decided the back story of the station....