Patricks Layout

[Patrick Davey]

Excellent technique

[TimO]

Patrick,

Thank you for the detailed description of your method. As I suspected, it’s different to many other methods. I must give it a try.
 

I’m looking forward to seeing how you weather A42 as I think that is one of the best liveries on the A class especially with your goods trains.

[patrick]

141 continues its journey on the Waterford goods and is seen here passing Kielys Cross. 

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Lovely photos 

[Bob229]

A fine layout Patrick, the well ballasted track and scenery with Loco 141 in BnT  livery and wagons passing through look excellent  

[patrick]

A12 on a beet special at Keilys Cross in October 1969. The two H vans are returning empty to Mallow from Glen More where they delivered beet pulp, a byproduct of the sugar refining process which was sold to farmers for cattle feed.

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Classic.

[patrick]

Thursday May 15th 2024. The last train on the South Waterford Line leaves Grange headed for the Cork  fiddle yard. There the rolling stock will be boxed and work will begin dismantling the layout.

Maureen and I have decided it is time for us to move, first to a rental property near her mom who needs more and more help by the day and then look for home with with a garden, something we did not have in a condo and sorley missed. Of course a train room will be a requirement in any new house!

 

 

[StevieB]

I’ll be sorry to see no more of your videos. Is there any chance of saving the layout for re-erection at a future date?

Stephen

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Great stuff, best wishes for the move lad.

[Flying Snail]

This layout will be missed here. Hopefully, we'll see more trains running through the south east in the future.

But family comes first (as it always should) and I hope the move goes well for you and yours.

[Westcorkrailway]

It’s like when the line itself closed…

[patrick]

35 minutes ago, StevieB said:

I’ll be sorry to see no more of your videos. Is there any chance of saving the layout for re-erection at a future date?

 

It's really not practical attempting to re-erect the layout given how it is built and in any case given all  I have learned in the twelve years since the layout was started any future project will be hopefully built to a higher standard. 

[RobertRoche]

This is one of my favourite layouts on the forum. Looking forward to the next iteration!

[David Holman]

12 years and over 450,000 views! Quite a ride, Patrick. Hope the moves go well and that it won't be too long before you start posting about a new project

[Galteemore]

Yes, what a layout it’s been - an ideal and convincing background for all the delightful new releases over the past decade. From experience, I know that modelling in a short-term rental takes a different form but is possible - maybe a micro layout or two to keep things on the boil? Have a look at Ian Holmes’ Micro Model Railway Dispatch newsletter. I can’t paste links for some reason but easily findable via your favours search engine.

[leslie10646]

Patrick,

Yes, we'll miss the pics and videos - you were my best salesman

All the best with the move and I hope that the caring goes as well as can be - good for you both, for doing it!

[derek]

20 hours ago, patrick said:

It's really not practical attempting to re-erect the layout given how it is built and in any case given all  I have learned in the twelve years since the layout was started any future project will be hopefully built to a higher standard. 

Higher standard? It really can't get much higher Patrick. Very sad to hear of this dismantling, but you have your priorities. Even the people on the platform look a little forlorn , watching the last train go by.  Good luck with the move, and all it brings to you and Maureen,

Derek

[DJ Dangerous]

Awwww, be sad to see this one do a Ballyercall and vanish, but needs must.

It's been a stalwart on the forum over the years, for both quality and quantity.

[Colin R]

Good luck with the move and looking after your mother in law as well, beside the rolling stock, I hope you are going to keep all those buildins as well?

Take care

Regards

Colin Rainsbury

 

[LNERW1]

Never really got around to knowing this layout properly as the topics almost as old as me! I know enough about it now, though, to say that it’s definitely a loss to the forum. Best of luck for the future.

[Robert Shrives]

Patrick, 

Just caught up with the news , good luck with the move and hope in time you can share new works, no rush it is a hobby after all. 

A big thank you for letting us share the layout and the inspirational words and pictures  over the life of the layout.

Robert 

 

[Patrick Davey]

Good luck with the move Patrick & Maureen.  One of the many benefits of this forum will be seen in the amazing legacy of pictures and videos which you have left for us to enjoy in this thread, for which you deserve our sincerest thanks.

Hoping Maureen’s Mum is doing well. 

[Noel]

Best wishes for the move. Understand. I will miss your amazing layout but thank goodness we have a wonderful archive here of your incredibly atmospheric creation. Best wishes for the future. Looking forward to what appears in the years ahead. Your layout has been an inspiration and has always been my favourite layout. Take care.

[Mayner]

Good luck with the move Patrick and Maureen, I can identify both with your caring commitments and having to dismantle a layout as a result of a house move. It was great seeing a classic American style walk-around layout in a South Waterford context a single track main line railway through rolling country with high viaducts and tunnels. Ironically I was struck by the railway around the headland at Ballyvoyle and the level crossing in Dungarvan when I first visited the area as a 7-8 year old 60 or so years ago in the back of my parents car travelling from Waterford to Youghal, the Sun was so strong my Mum bought me a Cowboy hat in Youghal which I proudly wore for the rest of the holiday.

Also pleasing to see my 3D printed wagons and vans in real goods trains

Edited May 23, 2024 by Mayner

[Georgeconna]

Just seen this news, good luck with the move Patrick, hope it all works out. Really enjoyed looking at your layout. It has been joyful

[jhb171achill]

On 16/5/2024 at 9:26 PM, patrick said:

Thursday May 15th 2024. The last train on the South Waterford Line leaves Grange headed for the Cork  fiddle yard. There the rolling stock will be boxed and work will begin dismantling the layout.

Maureen and I have decided it is time for us to move, first to a rental property near her mom who needs more and more help by the day and then look for home with with a garden, something we did not have in a condo and sorley missed. Of course a train room will be a requirement in any new house!

 

 

Sorry to hear of this - definitely one of the best layouts this website - or Irish modelling in general - has ever seen.

Good luck with the move, and here’s to a future reincarnation!

[patrick]

Patrick's new layout. More to follow.

[DJ Dangerous]

Just, wow!

[patrick]

[Broithe]

Got any buffalo to roam..?

[patrick]

No, but we regularly get deer not to mention squirrels, the occasional possum and of course our three cats.

[Broithe]

You could knit some costumes for them?

[patrick]

Now that the track plan is pretty much settled it will be making it up as we go along. Here is a sketch showing what I'm after.

[David Holman]

Looks like a lot of fun.