Clogherhead - A GNR(I) Seaside Terminus

[Galteemore]

Eggs-cellent work….

[Metrovik]

Yet again, I'm lost for words.

 

[Patrick Davey]

Enjoy 6 minutes of digital sound bliss, as 125 shunts her new ballast wagons around Clogherhead:

[Patrick Davey]

Some appropriate period posters added to Clogherhead.

 

[jhb171achill]

I can smell the sea air, cresote on sleepers, and a faint whiff of coal smoke from the UG which has just left with the Dundalk local....... and is that a smell of fish'n'chips from that beaten-up oul van parked up beside the beach, down the road?

Mind those seagulls, by the way.

[Galteemore]

19 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I can smell the sea air, cresote on sleepers, and a faint whiff of coal smoke from the UG which has just left with the Dundalk local....... and is that a smell of fish'n'chips from that beaten-up oul van parked up beside the beach, down the road?

Mind those seagulls, by the way.

And Norman Foster taking photos…

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Lovely 

[Patrick Davey]

Moving towards the endgame now, the fiddle yard board has been constructed.

[derek]

3 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

Moving towards the endgame now, the fiddle yard board has been constructed.

Jaysus! I thought you were starting another one. In a way I suppose you are

[Metrovik]

5 minutes ago, derek said:

Jaysus! I thought you were starting another one.

Come, on Patrick, you know you want to......

[Patrick Davey]

All in good time folks!

[Patrick Davey]

A bit of insomnia at the min so I may as well be creative…..

[derek]

14 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

A bit of insomnia at the min so I may as well be creative…..

Count sheep like the rest of us Patrick

[Patrick Davey]

I have just bought 48 seagulls.......

[Patrick Davey]

The noise will be so bad I might need a herring aid........

[Patrick Davey]

On 18/4/2024 at 7:27 PM, derek said:

Count sheep like the rest of us Patrick

Or corrugated opens - I just bought a second packet!!!

[Broithe]

2 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

I have just bought 48 seagulls.......

9 minutes ago, Patrick Davey said:

Or corrugated opens - I just bought a second packet!!!

 

The sellers must think you're a bit gullible.

[Mayner]

19 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

I have just bought 48 seagulls.......

Used a selection of Dart Castings rabbits, ducks, swans etc. to keep viewers interested when exhibiting a small end to end layout 20 odd years ago.  

The different animal species were listed on the layout fascia.

Families with small kits used to get more entertainment out of searching for and counting the rabbits and ducks than watching the trains!

Rabbits and ducks have gone into hiding but swans have taken up residence for the past 10-12 years in the river on the Irish Narrow gauge layout

 

[Horsetan]

22 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

I have just bought 48 seagulls.......

Don't eat chips in their presence. 

[Broithe]

1 hour ago, Horsetan said:

Don't eat chips in their presence. 

They'll have the chips out of his locos...

[Horsetan]

8 minutes ago, Broithe said:

They'll have the chips out of his locos...

D'ye think yer man's becoming a "seagull manager"?

[jhb171achill]

On 18/4/2024 at 7:27 PM, derek said:

Count sheep like the rest of us Patrick

Or wagons on a loose-coupled goods train coming into the North Wall from rural places…….

[Mayner]

On 25/4/2024 at 2:30 AM, jhb171achill said:

Or wagons on a loose-coupled goods train coming into the North Wall from rural places…….

Possibly a watching trains go-by N scale model of the GNR Main Line across the Border or Craigmore Viaduct as a next project if Patrick has the space. Kids used to start counting wagons on goods trains as they emerged from a tunnel/from under a bridge when we exhibited a 13' x 2'6" N Gauge club layout about 40 years ago!

Alternatively watching/trying to count cars on American freight trains can help you sleep. Spent a week chasing/photographing trains on Donner in 2001 before we were all abruptly brought back to reality by the 9/11 attacks.

 

[Patrick Davey]

A significant development at Clogherhead today:

 

[Galteemore]

Turning out well. Hope it didn’t take too much fiddling.

[Patrick Davey]

30 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Turning out well. Hope it didn’t take too much fiddling.

It actually did David, I had to get my next door neighbour to come and help me lift it into the main house, it is now sharing the room with Mr. Weaver’s empire!

31 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Turning out well. Hope it didn’t take too much fiddling.

But I see what you did there

[Patrick Davey]

A kind donation of track from Kieran Lagan has facilitated further progress today!

[Patrick Davey]

And the first official working arrives into CHD from Drogheda….. ahem sorry, the new fiddle yard

 

 

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Very nice 

[Patrick Davey]

More explorations of the new fiddle yard by B125:

 

[Patrick Davey]

Painted the fiddle yard board black.

 

Edited April 28, 2024 by Patrick Davey

[Galteemore]

The Henry Ford approach to layout finishing. Looks well.

[Tullygrainey]

So now we can watch locos go to the dark side

(I'm already wearing my coat)

[Galteemore]

16 minutes ago, Tullygrainey said:

So now we can watch locos go to the dark side

(I'm already wearing my coat)

Just think of all the fun you can have with that DCC sound….

 

[Patrick Davey]

A3r was very excited to pose beside a photo of herself as a kid.