Andy Cundick

Point of order Mr Chairman 00n3 is exactly right for 3foot gauge.Andy.

Its called suffering for your art.I find part of the fun and challenge is modelling something different from what i remember, otherwise it would be the Berks and Hants,Swindon Works and lots of Westerns.The nearest to that is a Broad Gauge project of Marlborough c1860.Andy.

NCC Jinty No18 has been spotted a Valencia Harbour,usually in the last hour of a show,Andy.

Not used Alan Gibsons strapping,however Evergreen strip of the right width/thickness can be used and rivet transfers of the correct spacing can be applied afterwards.I usually get the wagons to primered state then apply them.Both Archers and Microscale do the transfers,try DCC supplies.Andy.

Ambis or Wizard should have something suitable,Andy

Not sure i can justify a modern image one,so early GS one to start with,Andy.

The simple answer is no the 6t snail is as stated chalked on,Andy

Not convinced about the proposal .as my layouts are between 30 and 40 years before i was born. all set in a country i've no connection with.The only one at least in the right area ,my broad gauge Marlborough one is 100 years before iwas born so bang goes someones theory for me at least Andy.

Steel wheels every time though with all wheels it pays to check the back to back,Andy.

Tony.Best places for wagon underpinnings is MJT and or Wizard Models.Andy.

Tony Demonstration piece posted this morning Andy.

Tony Let me have your address and i'll send you a demonstration piece Andy.

Tony,As requested the point control i use as standard is pretty simple and fairly foolproof (with me it has to be.Basically underneath the point i have a slot under the tiebar with a bit of timber 1"x 1/2" approx mounted on the side of this is a bit of Copperclad sleeper strip about 1 1/4" long this is secured by 4 Peco track spikes so it can slide side to side in line with the tie bar.A bit of 1mm N/S rod is fed down through the hole in the tie bar and soldered to the copperclad.The control end is just a 30p slide switch with a hole drilled through the Nylon slider this needs to be rattling good fit for an 8BA bolt,the idea being that the bolt is nutted both sides of the switch to allow for adjustment.To connect the point to the switch i use Silicon/Nickel silver wire in tube from Wizard/MSE Models.This soldered to the bolt (the slot in the head helps here)and the copperclad strip.The silicon tube is then secured with hot glue.Any adjusting can then be done using the bolt on the switch.All you then need is to wire up the point ,the middletag on the switch goes to the frog and the other two are for feed from the toe of the point.Hope this makes sense,Andy

Simple answer is no,i've got two and both run nicely.Andy.

As far as photos go the best place at the moment is Micks Roving Reporter which you can find via the 009 Societies website links check the 2015 Shepton show and Narrow Gauge South 2016 you should find some pictures there,a bit more delving will find all four Donegal layouts Castlederg and even a couple of shots of Bridge End,Andy.

Bit far for most,but the Southampton show on the 28/29th of January,features two Arigna layouts,David Holsmans 7mm "might have been" and my 4mm "was".I know you wait years for a model of Arigna and two turn up at once! Andy.

Its not completely suitable for either of the Ballymena/Castlederg engines,and the amount of work to motorise its probably just as easy to use the GEM/Brachlines kit.Andy.

I've travelled the length of the Castlrederg line albeit by Land Rover,whats more with Letterkenny station in the back ! Andy.

The published facts on the original stock as such doesn't stack up.Both Ernie Shepherd and Des Coakham state that the two original 23ft coaches were a 3rd and a composite,and 1892 pair were a brake compo and a brake third,which would that for three years they didn't have a brake at all.What is shown in the photo on page47 of Ernie Shepherds Bandon book shows two of the coaches judging from their size and construction i would imagine the first one to be one of the newer vehicles however it appears to be a 5 compt 3rd as al the compts are equally spaced the second one i would judge to be one of the original coaches judging from the vents it woul appear to be a 3rd saloon similar to the Tralee thirds and whats more of similar construction Bristol built perhaps.The clincher is the last vehicle at the end of the goods siding which is obviously a 4whl brake judging from the central twin doors and the single open door at the end.The photo being taken in 1905 the twin is on the front of Lost Railways of Cork .The train makeup would appear to be usual as the same vehicles appear in a article in the Railway Magazine for July 1902 which shows the same vehicles but annoyingly cuts the end of the train off.The useful thing about these photos being pre Cork city line precludes most lines stock from appearing so reducing the options.Andy

The brake van No5 appears to have been built in 1918,theres a Tim Cramer drawing in New Irish Lines of it.Though judging from photos some of the details on the ends are wrong.I'm assuming the original van expired and this was the replacement,I've built 5 but fancy doing the original for sake of completeness.Andy.

Thanks for the info,now the coaches are great fun trying to decipher what is what.Colm Creedon states in his Bandon books (No 3 i think)that they had 3 6 wheelers so that is easily discounted, Both Ernie Shepherd and Des Coakham come up with four bogie coaches No1 being a 23 foot bogie third and No 2 a first /third compo,both built in 1889.Then you have No3 a 30foot Compo Brake and No4 a third brake both built in 1892.Now the best two pictures of these are a pair of LGRP photos taken in 1905 one of which is on the front of Lost Railways of County Cork.The 2 coaches are totally different in construction the second coach which i would guess is No2 as it has 2 compartments with a central saloon.The coach behind Argadeen has five equal compartments which suggests an all third no trace of a brake compartment.The same two coaches appear in an article in the Railway Magazine July 1902,,so i guess they must be both T&C stock.The other shot shows a four wheel passenger brake at the end of the goods shed siding.So i would seem they had a passenger brake as well which was probably replaced by the new brake van in 1918.Any thoughts ? Andy.

The layyout will be 1925-1935,the C is there for light relief one of the few bits of stock from Valencia which is appropriate.As for the original coaches i'm working from the photos and stated dimensions.The real challenge is the original brake which shows up in the background of one picture,the wagons appear to be the same as the Bandon ones of which i have two already 92 louvres between the two of them! Andy.

Even better in 4mm,so far theres 552,St Molaga,a "C"Class and the frames of "Argadeen".The original coaches are great fun at 29 feet long,Baseboards and track over Christmas hopefully,Andy.

I've been doing research into Courtmacsherry and in the process noted that the area on the outskirts of Courtmacsherry was known as Siberia now as the line passes through it would that make the trains the trans siberian express(Yes i know express is definitely pushing, but the princple remais)Need get a move on with this layout as its already invited to Warley 2018,what larks! Andy.

The Blessington Book quotes the seating as 40 so no change my guess would be that the seat frames weren't changed just reupholstered.i can't imagine Henry Forbes spending money on replacing seating.Andy.