Swords, Phibsborough and Adelaide

[Sheldrake9er]

A trip around the layout.

The main station is Swords, and the fiddle yard is either Phibsborough or Adelaide, depending on which direction it is approached.

Not many people are aware of the alternative route from Dublin to Belfast via Swords.

7mm Scale, 32mm gauge.

[Galteemore]

Wow, where has this been all my life? Tell us more about locos and stock please…

[Flying Snail]

Nice. There's more than a few gems in there ... but the Turfburner caught my eye, and that little GNR building at the end of the bay platform too!

[murrayec]

Looks great, I know some of those locos!

Eoin

[Westcorkrailway]

4 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Wow, where has this been all my life? Tell us more about locos and stock please…

This layout has been seen on Facebook a couple of times. A lot of alphagraphix and scratch built stuff. It’s really good! 

[David Holman]

Nice to know that Ga!teemore  and I aren't Roger's only customers! The signalled is rather splendid, so we certainly need to know more.

[Niles]

Love the station building, really nails the Wilkinson style found on the MGW and DSE.

[Sheldrake9er]

Some of my locos. The locos are a mix of RTR (Dapol Jinty), Kit built and Scratchbuilt.

My builders include Brendan Kelly and Eoin Murray, well known on this forum.

I was also lucky enough to procure three locos by Harry Connaughton - very likely from the 1960s. They are 402, and the two J5s. One of the J5s was lacking a tender, so once again Brendan Kelly stepped in.

Latest acquisition is a Sentinel.There appear to be significant differences between the Dapol LNER loco I bought, and the GSR Class M1.

More research needed.

Edited September 19 by Sheldrake9er

[Sheldrake9er]

The three main buildings of Irish provenance are the Waterford signal cabin, the lamp hut (?) from Amiens Street, GNRI Side (obviously), and Dromad station building.

The cabin is a 3D print in kit form by Owen O'Neill, down in Cork. I'm very pleased with his work.

The lamp hut came from Belfast, the builders name has slipped my mind. its a beautiful job. I saw it in 4mm in the MRSI Club room, and he very kindly upscaled it to 7mm.

Dromad station building was built by Russell Hutsby in England. I had it sent to my uncle in Belfast, and made the trip to pick it up. Lovely job - internal lighting included, to my surprise.

[Sheldrake9er]

Thanks for the kind words, Galteemore.

As can be seen, the CIE coaching stock is mainly by Roger Cromblehome (Alphagraphix). I've a number more to build. The all first 1144, seen by Waterford signal cabin, was scratchbuilt by Jeremy Clements (Meath RTR), who also scratchbuilt a GNRI rake for me. This comprises six coaches that I call my Enterprise set - D5, C2, K17, K15, F16 and L14. The latter was I think, actually from Worsley Works. Jeremy also built a J4, J11 and I13.

Wagons are a motley lot - RTR repainted, kit built British wagons slightly or somewhat modified, scratchbuilt, resin kits produced by Harry Lewis (CIE cattle wagons), and more recently 3D prints by Shapeways, and by Ken McElhinney. My Bulleid beet wagons came from Gerry Hoey, as did various vans.

I've a huge amount of GWR as well. Here are just some of the locos. These are the non-GWR origin.

[Sheldrake9er]

Two from Gerry Hoey. Some day, I might get the correct bogies for the Guinness van.

Turf burner on the Enterprise, and A Class ditto.

[Galteemore]

Very very nice indeed. The late Steve Rafferty would have loved that RT of yours! The GW  collection is fab - is that a ‘Galloping Alice’ amongst them ? 

[Sheldrake9er]

Galloping Alice it is - a product of Walsall Model Industries. I bought it in 2007.

[LNERW1]

This post has been deleted as the poster does not have the necessary modelling skill to interact with this thread.

[David Holman]

Lovely stuff!

[Westcorkrailway]

Wrong thread, but as I’m here, where is the the Bandon Tank? Or is that somone elses

Edited September 20 by Westcorkrailway
Wrong thread

[LNERW1]

Was that intended for the Hatton’s coaches thread?

35 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Since people are noticing bits missing, I’m posting this to remind myself what I pre-ordered. I’d nothing by tommorow then it might be time to send an email but otherwise 

@BosKonay @Warbonnet @Garfield just in case.

[Westcorkrailway]

1 minute ago, LNERW1 said:

Was that intended for the Hatton’s coaches thread?

@BosKonay @Warbonnet @Garfield just in case.

Indeed, oops!

[LNERW1]

Anyone know what’s happened to @Sheldrake9er? Last time he visited was September 19th, the day most of this thread was posted. I do hope he’s alright.