Some photos to look at

[Colin R]

You know how it is, you start looking for something on the old Internet and something pops up like this link

 I hope you all enjoy over a coffee or something a bit stronger

[Galteemore]

9 minutes ago, Colin R said:

You know how it is, you start looking for something on the old Internet and something pops up like this link

 I hope you all enjoy over a coffee or something a bit stronger

Thanks Colin: some interesting SLNC views. Lissadell was in very poor condition at this point, and was just waiting for the scrapman to arrive, but the rain makes her look like she’s just out of the paint shop in gloss black! 

Edited November 16 by Galteemore

[Colin R]

Don't forget to click on the photo itself for more views

 

 

Edited November 16 by Colin R

[Mayner]

6 hours ago, Colin R said:

Don't forget to click on the photo itself for more views

 

 

The Cavan & :Leitrim was CIEs last entirely steam worked system and quite intensively worked to the end with the Arigna Coal specials in addition to the scheduled mixed trains. Ballinamore was a self contained railway works in miniature with running shed/repair shops, storage sidings and its own railway village adjacent to the sheds. Photo possibly mid 50s with 3T and 5T  framing a pair of C&L 4-4-0Ts . 5Ts cow catcher was later removed after it worked loose and caught on a set of points on the Arigna Tramway.

Kerr Stewart 4T and possibly 2L stored towards the end of one of the Carriage Shed roads together with a derelict C&L coach, and loads of coal wagons possibly the bunker of one of the Passage locos lurking behind the bushes towards the left of the photo. 

Ballinamore-Dromad the busiest section with three mixed trains daily during the 1950s (frequent by Irish standards) a daily mixed to Belturbet and Arigna and up to 4 Coal Specials daily Arigna to Dromad or Belturbet + empty workings.

[Colin R]

I am not sure if my skills will let me get to anything like the C&L photo above but it is just so modelagenic, sod's law will be that once I have managed to get one of the Backwoods C&L 4-4-oT built and running someone will bring out a RTR version.

As Mayner said it was a complete railway If Hornby ever got around to producing a 4-4-0 in this TT:120 scale I could see a lot more possible models of the C&LR