Considering Ennis

[Horsetan]

1 hour ago, Broithe said:

And, of course, out of the mainstream, there was Never Say Navan Again.

An actor, retiring to live in his hometown, ..

Thurles Is Not Enough

[Mol_PMB]

6 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Thurles Is Not Enough

Ernie has a picture for that one, though A7 is the second loco here:

 

Corcaigh Royale

(Ernie's pic again - I think James looked quite smart as a teenager in Black Tie dress!

[Robert Shrives]

Mol, 

Ennis was on my ideas list a while back due to the curved platforms and terminating trains - I was going for a modernised trackplan but with benefits.  Claremorris -Burma Road- Sligo a`la Patrick style of presentation was another flight of fancy - lottery requirement to oblige! NIR stuff did see a Portadown idea as well, along with a Belfast Central- Adelaide yard fancy.  It hard from afar(ish) to avoid a fictional section to allow the multiple interesting train formations slide by. Your space with a double line loop and at a differing level a single line and loop attached to fiddle yards/loops could then be anywhere you fancy on the day.

robert              

[Mol_PMB]

2 minutes ago, Robert Shrives said:

Mol, 

Ennis was on my ideas list a while back due to the curved platforms and terminating trains - I was going for a modernised trackplan but with benefits.  Claremorris -Burma Road- Sligo a`la Patrick style of presentation was another flight of fancy - lottery requirement to oblige! NIR stuff did see a Portadown idea as well, along with a Belfast Central- Adelaide yard fancy.  It hard from afar(ish) to avoid a fictional section to allow the multiple interesting train formations slide by. Your space with a double line loop and at a differing level a single line and loop attached to fiddle yards/loops could then be anywhere you fancy on the day.

robert              

Good thoughts! I like the idea of a layout where I can watch the trains go by - the loft is the only space big enough but it's a lot of work to convert it to a comfortably usable space. I may well end up with another shunting plank instead, which would at least be portable. Fenit Pier definitely appeals for that.

But before I get anywhere with a layout I need to master 21mm gauge pointwork, and reliable couplings. They're my next challenges.

Having said that, maybe I should just admit that the bit I most enjoy is building wagons, and keep filling up the display cabinet with trucks that will never run anywhere!

[Galteemore]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

Good thoughts! I like the idea of a layout where I can watch the trains go by - the loft is the only space big enough but it's a lot of work to convert it to a comfortably usable space. I may well end up with another shunting plank instead, which would at least be portable. Fenit Pier definitely appeals for that.

But before I get anywhere with a layout I need to master 21mm gauge pointwork, and reliable couplings. They're my next challenges.

Having said that, maybe I should just admit that the bit I most enjoy is building wagons, and keep filling up the display cabinet with trucks that will never run anywhere!

Interesting. Took me years of being interested in trains to work out that I prefer researching and building them to running them. Quite apart from anything else, in a display case they never stall or derail….

[Mol_PMB]

14 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Interesting. Took me years of being interested in trains to work out that I prefer researching and building them to running them. Quite apart from anything else, in a display case they never stall or derail….

Ah, so I'm not the only one then! That's reassuring. The research and the rolling stock construction are my favourite bits, though I also enjoy landscape scenery.

I'm not sure whether my best achievement today is making a load of progress building a couple of etched wagons, or finding three photos of LMA vans in service!

 

I do feel I need to get something moving (for more than a foot or two on my photo plank), so I ought to regauge one of my locos and make a more comprehensive test track at least.

One of the tasks I need to address with the wagons I've built/rebuilt so far is to go back through all of them, make sure they have the same wheel standards and fit them with couplings. But it's not on the priority list at present because they don't need those things to sit in the display case, and I haven't quite decided what wheel standards or couplings to use yet.

Anyway, I'd better get back to the soldering iron...