Visit to a friend’s layout…

[jhb171achill]

[Rob]

Very impressive- take a bow!

[jhb171achill]

6 hours ago, Rob said:

Very impressive- take a bow!

Not my layout, Rob! Belongs to a friend - who appears here, as it happens, from time to time!

[Noel]

Love it. Fantastic looking layout and stock. Looks about 1972 or 1973, nearing the end of wonderful two axle pick up goods wagons and the onset of containerisation as the first colour light signals appeared. Only the hi-vis jackets bring it into the 1990s. That photo of B145 double heading is fabulous. Evocative of the pinnacle era of Irish railways, when trains were trains, men were men, engines pulled carriages and engines pulled wagons, not a bogie in sight, nor a DMU, and goods trains were properly punctuated at the end with a brake van, none of this fully fitted modernity with just a pair of white lamps at the end looking like a snake that had its head bitten off.  I assume your friend lets you drive some trains on that fab looking layout.

[Mike 84C]

I very much like that first picture of 385, it has place and feeling. Just needs the driver leaning from the cab wiping his hands!

[jhb171achill]

And this afternoon, a narra-gauge visitor from Brexitstan (the driver got lost)....

And featuring a SUPERB ballast train of NIRs.....

[jhb171achill]

Another visit to this layout today, and I caught the 14:25 goods going past.

 

[jhb171achill]

Another visit to this layout today, and I caught the 14:25 goods going past.

 

And standing by.....

[jhb171achill]

No. 800 poses with a GSR “Santa” train. Authenticity assured.

She’s getting assistance from Santa’s private locomotive, as those two troublesome trucks are too…. troublesome.

….

 

 

A39R en route to Foynes, and a J15 with empty cattle wagons for Baltinglass Fair.

 

Edited November 28, 2021 by jhb171achill

[Galteemore]

On 21/11/2021 at 8:25 PM, jhb171achill said:

Another visit to this layout today, and I caught the 14:25 goods going past.

 

And standing by.....

Oh dear - that poor VS looks lovely but also as if it’s had an argument with a much bigger engine…either that or that’s a profound case of buffer droop…

[jhb171achill]

11 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Oh dear - that poor VS looks lovely but also as if it’s had an argument with a much bigger engine…either that or that’s a profound case of buffer droop…

It's been fixed since!

[JasonB]

37 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

A39R en route to Foynes, and a J15 with empty cattle wagons for Baltinglass Fair.

Those oil wagons look the business.  

[Sean Hogan]

Nice 

Poor vs hit the floor going back to inchicore works shortly.