Drogheda MacBride Station And Platin Cement Factory

[derek]

Beauuuutiful

[west_clare_wanderer]

18 hours ago, Anders112 said:

There’s something about the length of the curves that make it.

There certainly is. Seeing the prototype photos alongside show what a great job you're doing. It's definitely a model of a railway rather than a model railway (if you know what I mean!).

[Anders112]

Some weekend engineering work on the Navan Branch means more action!

The shortness of the Navan branch and the inability to simulate cement/gypsum/tara mines trains running from Platin/Kingscourt/Navan  has been one of the disappointing parts I have found of my layout. 

After finding a hinge on an old spare door and some spare plywood,if somewhat been able to get around this. I can now park a 12 wagon cement/gypsum train on the branch and a 7 Tara wagon train. Acting like the real things as they stop at the car park to get the road onto the Belfast main line.

Yes the make shift clamp looks funny but it’s doing its job. The extension bridge,once unclamped lowers down to all accessibility around the back of the layout. 

As always there’s photos for reference.(click on photo for link) 

 

 

t Scenery

as per photos, adding the grassy embankment and concrete to the station freight yard will give this section of the layout more. Next protocol is do some research on scenery, static grass and using das clay for the freight yard. Maybe some station buildings too would be a good addition. 
Running sessions will be added soon. 
Thanks 

Dave