Hunslet 102

Nice mix of the various NIR blue era loco's and railcars.Like the 80 class,it looks good.The layout is looking great also,your progress is amazing.

The B101 looks brilliant Kirley,a great piece of modelling and she looks so at home in front of that mixed freight train.Great work,well done

Superb video,really enjoyed that.photos look great too,the layout is coming on brilliant,well done.

Lovely video Patrick,really captures the feel of an early 70s period,the mixed goods looks great.

Nice video and a nice variety of stock through the era's,with the 70s being the pick of the bunch.

The final pic is the most worrying,as it appears by the way you have cut the rails that there is a rough edge sticking up,which will cause a derailment.It would be best to trim it back a couple of mm's and ensure your cut is flush.HTH.

The wall,platforms and hard standing area all look great and blend in well together.A nice airy feel to the layout,which even with lots of stock present would still be a good characteristic of it,well done.

Nice video kirley,glad to see your Sulzer on the move,look forward to seeing her finished.great job with K801 also,looks the biz.

The Sulzer looks great,nice colour scheme and it is great seeing her hauling stock from the best era ever on Irish railways.Another superb scene from Tara Junction,thanks for sharing.

Totally agree,handled in a good professional and dignified way.

It has always been said a picture speaks a thousand words and the photo's above tell a story so vividly.The station has a real GNRI feel about it and looks totally at home in its surroundings.The house with the washing line really blends in well with the backscene,you can taste the realism.The Gospel Hall is a brilliant piece of modelling with a nice touch and the Irish village down on its luck is pure magic.Superb modelling and a fantastic layout Kirley,well done.

That looks great Ger,well done Barl for a great suggestion,it will certainly help bring the model to life.

Superb,thanks for posting,jogs the memory of things from the past,like the messenger bike,glad to see other guys struggled with them!

Thanks again for all the positive comments guys Kirley-I hand paint everything,part of the hobby I really enjoy. Patrick-I will see about posting some form of trackplan,it may end up being a hand drawn one! The trackplan for this layout was all in my head,I tend to do it the old fashioned way,start pinning the track and see if it matches my thoughts!! It works for me.The actual layout is only about 10ft in length x about 5ft wide with an operating station in the middle.The layout is just a glorified oval,with GVSt station on the inside of the back baseboard and Adelaide freight yard on the inside of the front baseboard.At the back of the continuous lines are the hidden sidings.Operation takes the form of something like the following.A DH will marshal coaches from the carriage sidings and run them into GVSt for the Enterprise.The Hunslet will then back unto the coaches and take the train out unto the outer line,do a few circuits and then head into the hidden sidings.Trains coming from the hidden sidings cross over to the inner track,do a few circuits and then enter GVSt.Goods operations do the same operation only go in and out of Adelaide freight yard.It all means I can do prototypical running in a small area,but without it all seeming too cramped,food for thought for those that have limited space like myself.

Thanks for the feedback guys,much appreciated.Here are some answers to your questions Sulzer201-the DH locomotive was not a type built by H&W.There were 3 of these locomotives in total and they were built by English Electric in England in 1969.All 3 were preserved at one point by the Irish Traction Group,but 2 then ended up working again in Sri Lanka and the other one ended up somewhere in Wales out of use I believe. Heirflick-no I dont have a model of the NIR MV class.These loco's were purchased by NIR around 1984,so a bit beyond the era I am currently modelling.I do have a good amount of blue 1980s stock to hand available for the layout,so an MV may be something I will model in the future.I am currently on the lookout for a Q kits C class to model the CIE version for my 70s layout. Kirley-I am sure the figures are old Bachmann figures that were supplied on a sprue,a bit like the old Airfix type figures and these have been hand painted.

The best vote of all and the one that will help ensure further items are considered and done in the future.

Another scene from the 70s,circa 1975. The above 2 photo's show the NIR weedkiller train in action,the usual for the time,one man working while the rest look on!Actually,come to think of it,it is still the same today!! These next 2 photo's show the full length train with an NIR DH class loco in charge.There is a real life photo of this train in the questions and answers section under the title CIE weedkiller train,which is the next project on the to do list.

Superb workmanship,simply stunning and as for the size-wow.great stuff,well done

Great shots again,there is always something happening at Tara Junction and there is always something new that catches your eye

layout is looking good,like the backscene and the dirty NIR GM.

Thanks John-that coach looks like a good starting point and will check out the old style bogie tank cars,maybe Garfield could throw some light on an American type option? Cheers again lads

Eiretrains-thanks for that extra info with the carriage number.It would be good to see the couple of close-up photo's that you have if you were ok for posting them up. This is turning into a very interesting and informative thread,thanks to all for the info.

Thanks JHB,hopefully I will be able to take you up on your offer this year as you offered me the same arrangements last year for a visit to photograph the ex NCC crane,but I was unable to make it.Still looking to do a model of the crane so still interested in getting close-up photo's of it.

Thanks for the photo's JHB,again they will help with the model.Would love to see the coach up close but not sure when I will next be back in Northern Ireland.

Absolutely superb information and photo's of the weedkiller train. Magpie1951-thanks for the photo's,the first one I had not seen before and is the clearest view of the weedkiller train in action that I have seen. Mayner-that is a superb website and the linked photo is fantastic,that will be a great help and reference for a model of this unique train,many thanks for posting Wrenneire-your attached photo is of NIRs weedkilling train from the 70s that they used mainly on the Antrim branch,thanks for posting.I have actually done a model of that train as per the photo,must stick up a pic on my layout thread 'scenes from the 70s'.These trains as far as I am concerned have always and will always be weedkilling trains,weed control train sounds like a management political correct speech term that some idiot got paid thousands for,maybe the same one who has designed the new logo!! JHB-any photo's of that coach close-up? Thanks again for all the help guys.