Patricks Layout

[jhb171achill]

44 minutes ago, patrick said:

 

Very good job, that!

[patrick]

A29r shunting beet wagons at Glen More. It seems like I spent any spare moment today running this stunning model back and forth across the layout. 

[StevieB]

It very much looks the part.

Stephen

[David Holman]

Enjoy!

[Robert Shrives]

Helps to make the project perfect, you must be very pleased, I guess it will haul all of the rolling stock.

Thanks for showing , hopefully mine will be landing in the next couple of weeks.

Robert    

[Noel]

On 12/10/2021 at 5:15 AM, patrick said:

A29r shunting beet wagons at Glen More. It seems like I spent any spare moment today running this stunning model back and forth across the layout. 

Yes IMHO the finest livery combination of them all. Looks fab on your layout, right at home in B&T nostalgia gold heaven.

[patrick]

Waterford bound passenger train meets local goods train at Glen More October  1967.

[Rush and Lusk]

Absolutely wonderful Patrick - I feel transported back to a more relaxed time in 1967.

I am fortunate to have acquired 3 of these superb "A's" - I did however miss out on the lined green A46 (?) and have been seriously considering A42 - it looks really striking on your layout. Well done. 

[StevieB]

Delightful as ever. Keep up the good work.

Stephen

[murphaph]

3 hours ago, Rush and Lusk said:

Absolutely wonderful Patrick - I feel transported back to a more relaxed time in 1967.

I am fortunate to have acquired 3 of these superb "A's" - I did however miss out on the lined green A46 (?) and have been seriously considering A42 - it looks really striking on your layout. Well done. 

I am developing a real soft spot for A42. There's something about that green.

[Garfield]

2 hours ago, murphaph said:

I am developing a real soft spot for A42. There's something about that green.

There really is; whether pristine or dirtied up, it's an underrated livery.

[TimO]

A42 needs to be on a track hauling stock, that’s where it’s at home. A perfect livery that is very underrated. 

[John-r]

It was my spur of the moment  purchase at the Wexford show, because as murphaph said above, There's something about that Green,  it does look the business, another lovely addition to the A class fleet, well done lads.

Edited November 13, 2021 by John-r

[patrick]

 

 

 

The latest arrival on the South Waterford Line. I'm so glad I got my order in in time for these JM Design brake vans since I missed the earlier flying snail version and these two are no longer shown on John's website. Next project is to aquire more grey wagons for a 1967 operating session.

Edited November 15, 2021 by patrick

[patrick]

Staging the layout for the first 1967 operating session.

[Bob229]

Fantastic the A class is perfect for the layout

[patrick]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUMmP-HTULw

 

My son Kieran Made this movie of an impromptu operating session on the South Waterford Line while visiting from Korea where he is learning the language and teaches English. I really should have taken the time to clean the track and tidy up the layout before we started. Please ignore signal indications as the signaling system wiring is a work in progress. 

[murphaph]

Smashing video. For some reason I always thought this layout was much smaller than it is. The "stage" effect thanks to the valances and lighting is something I'd like to achieve on my layout someday. 

[Patrick Davey]

2 hours ago, patrick said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUMmP-HTULw

 

My son Kieran Made this movie of an impromptu operating session on the South Waterford Line while visiting from Korea where he is learning the language and teaches English. I really should have taken the time to clean the track and tidy up the layout before we started. Please ignore signal indications as the signaling system wiring is a work in progress. 

Stunning, no other word Patrick!

[StevieB]

I can only agree with the comments above. I think it is important for those of us, who know how railways used to operate, pass this knowledge on the next generations so that they can operate their model railways in the correct manner rather than just play trains, not that there is anything wrong with that.

Stephen

[Colin R]

Hi Patrick

Sorry if you have mentioned this before but on page one you had a green painted signal box. I take it it is still there but you have now repainted it, my question is simply do you scrtach built it or was it from a kit  

[Galteemore]

Looks like this one Colin….https://www.hattons.co.uk/26598/bachmann_branchline_44_250_brick_signal_box_irish_/stockdetail

[jhb171achill]

On 19/11/2021 at 9:20 AM, StevieB said:

I can only agree with the comments above. I think it is important for those of us, who know how railways used to operate, pass this knowledge on the next generations so that they can operate their model railways in the correct manner rather than just play trains, not that there is anything wrong with that.

Stephen

Couldn’t agree more! Very well said.

[patrick]

37 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Looks like this one Colin….https://www.hattons.co.uk/26598/bachmann_branchline_44_250_brick_signal_box_irish_/stockdetail

That's the very one. I did repaint the green  to grey to better represent the 1974 era.

[Colin R]

Thanks Patrick and Galteemore for the heads up, something else to add to the ebay wanted list

[patrick]

October 1967 on the South Waterford Line.

[patrick]

Finally the  conversion to Kadee couplers has begun.  So far 165, four Bulleid opens and JM designs brake van have been done. The new couplers have greatly improved the running of the light Bulleid opens and I was surprised how much of a improvement in appearance the closer coupling made.

 

[irishthump]

Welcome to the Kadee Converts Club!

The operational difference between tension locks and Kadees is night and day. Converting my stock was the best decision I ever made. Did you opt for draft boxes on the wagons or the NEM couplers? Any plans for adding uncoupling magnets?

[David Holman]

For me, tension locks spoil many a good model and Kadees are probably as good a compromise as any for modern image and indeed most narrow gauge options.

[murphaph]

Kadees are pretty close to coupled buck eyes as found on the Mk2/3 stock too. 

[irishthump]

28 minutes ago, David Holman said:

For me, tension locks spoil many a good model and Kadees are probably as good a compromise as any for modern image and indeed most narrow gauge options.

Never ceases to amaze me the amount of modellers I have heard complaining that Kadees are not prototypical for UK/Irish rolling yet are happy to use big ugly tension locks!

That aside, my main reason for liking them is their reliability and the added feature of hands free uncoupling and shunting.

[patrick]

I have used Kadees in the past in my American HO days but am just getting round to converting the South Waterford Line now.  The opens have #5 in their own boxes as I had them on hand. I'm not sure yet about magnetic uncoupling. For now I will be using wooden skewers as I did on my previous US themed layouts. This system is extremely practical on a high level walk around layout.

Edited January 7, 2022 by patrick

[StevieB]

I’m gradually fitting Kadees to my stock. They work so well and are the way forward as far as I’m concerned.

Stephen

[Mayner]

The Model Railway Society of Loughrea group standarised during the 1990s on Kadee No 36 couplings for locos coaches and wagons https://www.kadee.com/ho-scale-couplers-c-274_276_284/36-ho-scale-30series-plastic-couplers-with-gearboxes-long-2564-centerset-shank-p-270.htm which worked out very reliable under exhibition conditions.

The standard 30 Series dragbox and long center set shank worked out ideal for converted rtr, kit and scratchbuilt stock even a Push Pull set with Lima MK3 Coaches no problems with height adjustment as the bottom edge of the chassis/buffer beam provides a reliable datum for fixing the daftgear box, the coupler includes nylon fixing screws and washers which prevent the box rotating.

I fitted the MM 141s with body mount couplings by removing the draft gear box from the bogies and fitting the box to the pilot together with the little filler/piece supplied with the loco, the conversion takes me back to fitting Microtrain couplers to Atlas and Kato N Gauge diesels in the early 1990s before the manufacturers eliminated the coupler slot by switching from bogie to body mounted  couplings for N gauge American diesels.

[patrick]

I caught these images of mid seventies Irish goods trains while switching from a late sixties to a 1974 operating session. Hard to believe when I started the layout ten years ago the only rolling stock available which appear in the photos were the MM baby GM's, SSM open wagon Dapol Prestwin underframes and the Parkside 12 ton van. 

Edited March 16, 2022 by patrick