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Thanks for the suggestion John!

Crossing keepers cottage made from a cut down Scalescenes downloadable lock keepers cottage kit. I hope to replace it with a better built model now that I have some practice building it.

http://sutherland.davenportstation.org.uk/ws-189.html Some great photos from the seventies here. I don't know if the link has been posted here before but its certainly worth another look.

Giving the brick works its own siding would add to the operation of the layout. Does anyone know when this traffic ended and what kind of wagons were used?

Most likely a 30 ton brake van like the SSM kit.

Here is a prototype gypsum train near Navan junction which would be ideal for your layout Rich if you choose to model the early seventies. Here is the link where I found the photo. http://www.geograph.ie/search.php?i=58832491 Some of the photos suggest bagged gypsum was shipped from Kingsport in loose coupled vans into the seventies.

You are certainly capturing the atmosphere of Kingscourt there. I always thought it an interesting prototype and am looking forward to seeing how it develops.

No particular reason. They work for now so my limited resources went elsewhere. It is planned to convert to Kadees however, hopefully sooner rather than later.

The flats are adapted from Dapol Prestwin underframes. The bufferbeam is one eight inch Plastistruct channel and the buffers are from Dart Castings.

Its October and the first beet traffic is running on the South Waterford line. Here are a few photos from an operating session from last night.

http://www.aandhmodels.co.uk/28111-peat-sods-10g-32474-p.asp Here is another option.

I am looking for some information about fertilizer traffic on CIE in order to better represent it on my layout. Spring was always a busy season but was there traffic year round? Apart from the 4 wheel flats and bogie wagons what other wagons were used for this traffic, opens with tarps, covered vans? Also Oil traffic. Where did the traffic originate? I am aware of Shell in Alaxender Road but were there more depots there and what facilities were in Cork? Thanks. Patrick.

A couple of C Rail Bell refrigerated containers have been added to the Liner train.

In the third photo the train is on the main line using the platform which has the station building. This seems to have been a common practice at stations where the main line and loop were signalled for bidirectional running even when crossing goods trains. For the first two photos I have no excuse except trying to set up a nice photo!

The stone walls have been removed West of Glen More.

More smaller trees have been added.

Exploring the area on Google maps has shown occasional groves of evergreens so a few have been added.

More progress.

Thanks for all the great comments photos and suggestions. They have made getting rid of my beloved stone walls less painful. More foliage has been added since the last layout photo and now the search is on for small trees and maybe a few evergreens (spruce, pine?) which I have noticed in photos of the area. I am contemplating building a small"Rails Through The West" style diorama with stone walls to illustrate my layout building techniques and present it as a tutorial on the site.

Being called out on the inappriopate stone walls was impitus needed to do something about them. Any comments, espically from anyone familiar with South West county Waterford would be very welcome.

Thanks for posting the great selection of photos Glenderg. The third one is espically interesting as it is the first I have seen of the dolomite loading facilities at Bennetsbridge. The nineth photo is the lead/zinc ore loading facilities at Silvermines. Junctionmad is correct about the stone walls on the layout. Blame a lack of research on my part and "Rails Through The West" which I spent way too much time with. They came out so well and made the scenery look so Irish I got carried away with them and they are the first thing visitors comment on after viewing the layout. They have been bothering me for quite some time now and will be hard to get rid of. Has anyone ideas about modelling hawthorn in October? Time to get out the Woodland Scenics catalogue!

Bell liner at Keilys Cross.

The fiddle yard tracks can hold 11 twenty foot wagons. 4 oil wagons and 7 magnesite wagons seems like a good mix. I'm sure over the life of the operation almost any concievable mix ran depending on tht needs of the plant. The loads were always at the front so when the train arrives in the fiddle yard the locomotive only needs to be put on the other end and it is ready for the return journey.

An oil and magnesite train is on the to do list and very much part of the concept of the layout. Unfortunatly my current work schedule does is not conducive to modeling hense the slow progress in the last six months.

I finally got some sesame seeds to replace the barley as sugar beet loads.