Irishrailwayman

Fuller list of exhibits and retailers as follows: Joseph's Bridge OO Irish layout by WMRC Bridge Street OO compact UK outline by WMRC Macmine Junction OO Irish outline Exhibition Debut (see http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/5312-Macmine-Junction )by WMRC Rathmichael OO Irish layout by WMRC Dulnain Bridge OO UK/Scottish BR outline by Gareth Lloyd WMRC Waynton Vale by WMRC Llangollen N UK preservation outline by Gerry Byrne WMRC (See http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3054-Llangollen-in-N/page4 ) Ballybeg OO Irish outline by Gerry Byrne WMRC (See http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/109-Ballybeg/page16 ) Chicago Belt by MRSI Nieubrukken by Joe O'Toole Layout TBC by Padraig O'Riordan Scalextric by Robert Roche Donford by Bobby/Joe O'Toole Cranbrook by ELMRG Sandown by ELMRG Feldorf by SDMRC Thomas interactive layout by Sean Allen R/C Model Trucks by Darren O'Hanlon Wexford by Vincent O'Leary WMRC Along the East Coast by Herbert Alexander Ashburton Grove by Wayne Thomas WMRC Heathfield TMD by David Heath Static Displays: Tuskar Marine Modellers with Fred Crompton Diecast Farm Machinery with Kevin Carr Airsoft with Joe Turner Diecast and Steam Models with Richie Kimmins/Trevor Walshe Model Military Aircraft with Darryl Moloney Model Boat Pictures with Brian Cleare Wexford Model Railway Club Information Table with WMRC Model Bring & Buy Stall with WMRC Dioramas with Robert Power & Friends Model Traders: The Model Shop with Seamus Graham Marks Models with Mark Cuffe Model Rail Accessories with Eddie White Model Baseboards with David Linfield Michael Morris Card Kits with Michael Sean Ryan Trains with Sean Ryan Diecast Models with Kevin Finlay RNLI with Florence Jenkins Brian Collins Enterprises with Brian Collins Soldiers & Model Aircraft Kits with Kieran Nolan Caths Embroidery

Nice of collection of railway memorabilia there!

Tommy, Looks good. I have a spare set of 121 IE water-slide transfers and will drop them in the post to you. Gerry

I understand that the A's got as far as IR logos with tippex but not the IE logo...

Hear, hear, well said Sir! Always encourage, promote and respect our great hobby by your words and actions. We are a minority sport which needs careful nurturing lest it die away...

Down with this sort of thing!

I will try post those shots again here:

Not sure why these shots don't appear (they were fine on Preview)??

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Thanks for that. A couple of shots of that Gents! I used detail from the Wills kit.

For the canopy I used some plastic sheeting of Slates from Wills and cut it to shape. The valencing is by Ratio. The extension used Wills Stone plastic sheet and Quoins (corner-stones) and window/door surrounds by Langley Models. For the gents, I used a Wills kit for interiour details. I added tile edges to roofs and "lead" to valleys using leftovers from some Metcalfe card models.

Final views and then I will try to upload a couple of videos watching the trains go by.

A couple more views. I have added an extension, a gents and a platform canopy to the Bachmann pre-cast Clonmel station for Ballybeg. Note the oil wagons: the Burmah are a Hornby offering included for colour/variety rather than historical accuracy; the black and the silver ESSO wagons appear in only one photograph I have seen them on Irish railways (page 56 - dated 1957 at Adelaide in NI - "Irish Railways in Colour - A second glance"). Perhaps Westie could be persuaded to do transfers for "Irish Shell" or "Mex" oil tankers which were more commonly recorded on Irish lines...

A reel of views around Ballybeg with Black n' Tan carriages and goods wagons.

I understand that the BR Class 24 has the same engine as the CIE Class B101 (I fitted SW Digital's BR24 sound file into one of Westies 101 kits). BR Blue era is probably the UK equivalent in nostalgia terms to Ireland's golden brown/black era?

The good die young?

Fair points. With muti-era layouts the time-scales can be stretched a bit - the "might have been" part of the modellers licence. Probably Supertrain livery would suit the bauxite wagons more. Unfortunately, Macmine Junction didn't survive long enough to host these.

Photos of Macmine Junction are relatively scarce in published books as it closed over 50 years ago. Here's one dug out by a friend of WMRC showing a grey 121 at the junction platform. John Walker's layout is very accurate reflection of the prototype I think you will agree.

A final couple of views...

A couple of more views of Macmine in the last months of its existence...

Macmine Junction was closed on 1st April 1963 so there would just about have been enough time for a fleet of CIE rolling stock in the new (Patrick Scott RIP) designed Black and Tan livery to make an appearance there. The Flying Snail logos have been replaced by the Scandinavian designed CIE Broken Wheel logo. Goods wagons are now in brown livery. Note that the cattle have taken a bath in some black stuff and that the lorry wheels have seen some mud recently. It is unknown why the Garda have made an appearance - some cattle-rustling perhaps? Locomotive A20r (re-engined with a General Motors unit) hopefully won't fail this time (and require the services of the B121 lurking on the turntable) but manages to take its short train of a Park Royal, a Laminate and an SGV to Wexford. An all black C Class (No C205) shunts the yard while class leader B141 has charge of the Kilkenny goods. Another class leader B181 hums in the head-shunt with a spare guards van loitering with intent.

Couple of photos of the cattle bank (Ratio)and wagons being unloaded on Ballybeg. Note that the cattle are now of the correct black variety! Also note the CIE Canvas Centre Van which was used uncovered when cattle were being transported (usually from West to East). The cover was replaced when the wagon was used for other goods (hopefully only after they cleaned it up well after the cattle)! The model is an Alphagraphix card kit on a Peco Wonderful Wagon chassis.

John Hazelton at Silver Fox Models tells me that for the A Class depicted he used Railmatch BR Early Multiple Unit Green (Code RM307). He has since changed to a similar shade from Precision SR Pre-war Malachite Green (Code P77). These would be available in UK but regulations don't allow them to be posted from there.

Good to note these prototypes. The question for modellers remains: which paint type currently available most closely matches these originals in 4mm? Perhaps others have identified sources other than those mentioned by me... John tells me that the bank was originally set up with fences etc for marshalling cattle but later on was used as a means of loading sugar beet from road trucks onto railway wagons.