Broithe

Rock thrown near Newbridge, I believe.

Yeah, everything scheduled on the branch is double ended now, so no more need for running round. It is a very sedate run, the back way..

The sidings to the north of the mainline, at the other end of the station, have gone now, too. Just the loop round the island platform left.

Exactly that. As far as I'm aware, the current track is as shown in the vertical view, but without the loop line on the inside of the branch curve.

I was last there in July, but it looked the same as in the photo above to me... I think the low perspective may be confusing you?

I don't think so - as far as I can see, you have to reverse in and out of the bay still - though, the loop on the bay platform is gone now.

This morning.

I used to do a bit of work for a chap who was a descendant of Admiral Hood - he had a plant hire firm and was as mad as a box of frogs. He had some machines on a road project that involved putting a bridge across a dual carriageway. It wasn't until the girders were hanging off the crane that anybody spotted that there was a still-live lamppost in the middle of the span. A huge site meeting went on with everybody trying to blame each other - whilst he disconnected the wires up the post (and left the others in, so that the remaining lamps would still work) and then sawed the top off with a hacksaw. The stump of the dead lamp was there under the bridge for many years, until the lighting system was renewed and it could be removed.

I'll do my best - but, it could be a while before it turns up.

I may have a (paper) picture somewhere of a case that I made for a wooden Cutty Sark model that a friend made. The model was over a metre long and nearly as high. I persuaded him that we could make it appear to 'float' in the case. I made a Perspex box, just higher than the draught of the boat, with a cut-out in the top that the boat 'sank' into, up (or down!) to its waterline, and a green marble Fablon covering to the base of the case. All this fitted just inside the main Perspex case and it did work very well. Marking out the shape of the necessary hole was delicate, but fairly easy once the boat had been mounted on blocks at the right height, and a vertically mounted pencil, cut to the waterline height was moved round the hull to mark the shape of the hull at the waterline - this was then cut out of the horizontal part of the internal box. I used Perspex for this case as it would have been seriously heavy with glass of a suitable thickness in it - and then realised that cutting a boat-shaped hole in it was quite feasible.

Every now and then I feel obliged to acknowledge how privileged we are to have this remarkable archive delivered straight to us, hot off the press. Thanks to all the contributors on here.

It might put some minds at rest. If it does look the business, and it doesn't add huge cost, then it seems worth pursuing. Individuality is important, particularly for the bubbles - a rake of (too) similar weathering rarely looks right.

My first thought was "Factory weathering = No". ..but, I'm definitely being won over as the debate goes on - it would be nice to see a representative example. Factory weathering has usually seemed too homogenous, but you seem to be addressing this and could bring the technique past even the dirty silver bullets.. The bubbles do need to be dirty.

You would think that the state of the rail tops would give away the blatant lack of abandonmentness..?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-37427515

Mike's Train House - http://mthtrains.com/ , I expect.

Matchboard. Steel.

Matchboards would be vertical joins visible along the sides under the windows about 2mm apart - 'steel' ones would be smooth there.

These people seem to do similar backscenes. http://www.art-printers.com/

..well, that's what this seems to be - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/jjinstarail-first-jj-community-instameet-in-dublin-free-tickets-27448131099?aff=es2

It may well be, but he says Posts to:United Kingdom and people in 26 of the counties may feel it excludes them..?

And the eBay one looks like UK-only post.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Murphy-Models-MM-0210-IE-Class-201-Diesel-Locomotive-/112118525146?hash=item1a1ac8ecda:g:7zEAAOSw9IpXyUQE

I use Imgur to insert my own pictures - works very well. http://imgur.com/

It's a 'proper' Murphy - http://www.hattons.co.uk/37505/Murphy_Models_MM0201_Irish_Class_201_diesel_201_in_CIE_orange_livery_with_full_yellow_ends_/StockDetail.aspx