Andreas' railway or the new West Clare Railway.

[Andreas Weniger]

Hello together,
I would like to introduce you to my railway. Is there an introduction thread here? I haven't found it.
So briefly about me. I come from Germany, in the very south on the Swiss border. Married, 2 grown-up children, house, cars, ....  Click
I inherited a garden railway the year before last. I'm building my own little (Irish) world from it. Here are a few pictures of the construction so far. I still have hardly any original wagons and locomotives. I have built the Slieve Callan of the West Clare Railway and an Irish fantasy locomotive. And some freight wagons. Some of the inherited houses I have rebuilt in an Irish style - at least that's what I think. I am not rebuilding an original situation. I am building a model railway to play with and to recreate the atmosphere. this

Now a few pictures and Videos . This was a very short introduction - ask if you want to know more.

Now the last important building is ready. The pub. The building was created from Pola's "Hofladen" house. Of course it didn't look Irish ... So I rebuilt it. I removed the sloping framework. The filling of the frame is all done with tile glue. Removed the wall with the yard gate and built the wall with the door there. Built a new front for the pup out of styrofoam and plastic waste. The roof of course again with slate shingles and two big chimneys. The frame painted black, the pub striking red. The name of the pub is a tribute to my daughter's horse. She has an Irish Sporthorse called "King of Tullaghan" CLICK (at the bottom of the page)

[Galteemore]

Wilkommen, Andreas! Lovely models. More details on how you built them would be great - thank you for posting. 

[jhb171achill]

Sehr gut, Andreas, wilkommen!

[murphaph]

Herzlich willkommen im Forum Andreas! Lovely work. Looking forward to seeing more

[LARNE CABIN]

Unlike the above forum members, Andreas, I know no German, but welcome you to the forum, good to have you on board. Some very impressive modelling there.

[Andreas Weniger]

Hello. I haven't written anything for a while,

I haven't written anything for a while, but the railway had to take a back seat because of some house renovations. 

And now it's autumn...

 

 

[Andreas Weniger]

Hello everyone,
there is a little news. A passenger train, but it doesn't run so well yet, the wooden bogies are not ideal in my opinion... I'm still going to work on that. 
A new freight train. The wagons are all different wagons that I painted to match. The sheep wagons were built on 3 LGB bogies.
The most important thing is the locomotive. It is originally from LGB no.: 21741 a BR99. I adapted this locomotive to my style of the West Clare Railway. The windows became round, the sand dome was removed, plus a smaller one with the valve. New lamps, fewer pipes, new sand tanks. And of course everything was repainted. The chimney is also new. 
The name of the locomotive is again a mountain from the Burren, Slieve Carran.

 

[derek]

Excellent work Andreas. Beautiful trains

[Rush and Lusk]

Fabulous modelling Andreas - looks amazing, especially being an outdoors layout - well done. George 

[Broithe]

On 26/9/2021 at 2:04 PM, Andreas Weniger said:

So briefly about me. I come from Germany, in the very south on the Swiss border. Married, 2 grown-up children, house, cars, ....  Click

Well, I finally got around to looking through the stuff on the link in the first post here.

I strongly suggest that others do the same - there is tremendous stuff in there.

[Andreas Weniger]

 

 

[Killian Keane]

Sehr schön gemacht! Especially the model of no. 5, well done

[DJ Dangerous]

Absolutely fabulous stuff, @Andreas Weniger!

Do these run on 45mm track, a la the Bowaters Irish range?

 

[Andreas Weniger]

Hi,
the rails have a track gauge of 45mm. I use a scale of 1:22.5 as a basis. 
The West Clare Railway had a track gauge of 3 ft (914 mm) This does not fit exactly, as 914/22.5 only gives a track gauge of 40mm (but LGB is 45mm).
But visually, on a free model, this is not disturbing.

[Andreas Weniger]

After I had built the passenger cars from IP Engineering, I was unfortunately very dissatisfied with the driving characteristics. The wooden bogies with the small plastic wheels simply run badly. Derailments happened again and again.  Now I have equipped the cars with LGB bogies no. 67402 and spoke wheels. The pivot points remained the same, as did the car, and I only needed a small plastic spacer for the screw.
The test with the first 2 cars was very satisfactory. And the look is also ok for me.

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[Andreas Weniger]

Here are a few more impressions of the new passenger train and the "new" Simplex locomotive. Is this a locomotive at all, or just a forward scramble? It is not a scale replica of a Simplex but my interpretation, also due to the fact that all the technology had to be accommodated (2x LiIo battery, speed controller, Vosworks receiver, loudspeaker). The driver is still missing.
I also added a water tower, built from plastic scraps and polystyrene.