Darius43 Posted July 23 Posted July 23 Next week the baseboards arrive for my new, home-based, Irish-themed layout - Whiterock. i already had a plan for a smaller layout of the same name (shown below) but now have a bit more space available. Perhaps you can recognise its inspiration. I have ordered baseboards from Model Railway Solutions to the following plan. The larger layout side will enable a two track “roundy-roundy” with greater space for spoil sidings and a less cramped station area. Really looking forward to getting started. Cheers Darius 15 Quote
Mol_PMB Posted July 23 Posted July 23 This looks like a nice plan with plenty of scope for some varied scenery. Somewhere to run your NIR stock? The boards will provide a generous size for the layout - I like the idea of using the wider boards to make the most of the scenery where hopefully you won't have to reach over too often. I look forward to seeing it develop! 1 1 Quote
Tullygrainey Posted July 23 Posted July 23 Looks good. Best of luck with this. I'll enjoy watching it develop. 1 Quote
Patrick Davey Posted July 23 Posted July 23 Nice! Will you include sidings for a preservation society nearby? Can’t wait to see this one! 2 Quote
jhb171achill Posted July 25 Posted July 25 (edited) Any post here with the name “Darius” within its text has my FULL attention! Looking forward to seeing this develop! Actually surprised nobody’s thought of this before….. Brings me back to a very hot summer’s day about 1976 when I first got off a train there from a very run-down York Road. It was only my second time in an MPD railcar. Noisy, graffiti on the seats, diesel fumes - but character! And the “railway” smell, now long-gone from the sterile modern railway - creosote from the sleepers (especially on a hot day)…. Edited July 25 by jhb171achill 3 1 Quote
leslie10646 Posted July 25 Posted July 25 (edited) Like @jhb171achill, the name of the Great King always gets my attention too. Hey, @Darius43, you've only got eleven spoil wagons, according to my database - do you need more? I look forward to seeing an NCC Castle careering through on a late-running Boat Train! Edited July 25 by leslie10646 5 Quote
Popular Post Darius43 Posted July 26 Author Popular Post Posted July 26 3D print from eBay. Cleaned up the printing marks and added finials to the landings. Cheers Darius 19 2 Quote
StevieB Posted July 26 Posted July 26 Is the footbridge your handiwork or did you get it from ANOther? Either way, it looks the DB’s. Stephen Quote
Darius43 Posted July 26 Author Posted July 26 It’s a 3D printed resin model that I purchased from eBay. It just needed cleaning up, priming and painting. I added finials to the landings to make it look more like the prototype. Cheers Darius 1 Quote
Darius43 Posted Sunday at 15:57 Author Posted Sunday at 15:57 (edited) Improved some EFE busses whilst waiting for the rain to stop at Spa. Still need to make and apply some different numberplate decals… Cheers Darius Edited Sunday at 16:07 by Darius43 10 Quote
Galteemore Posted Sunday at 16:52 Posted Sunday at 16:52 53 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Improved some EFE busses whilst waiting for the rain to stop at Spa. Still need to make and apply some different numberplate decals… Cheers Darius Fab. Correct route numbers and all! 163 was my local bus (Carrickfergus). 4 Quote
Darius43 Posted Monday at 15:29 Author Posted Monday at 15:29 On 25/7/2025 at 12:57 PM, leslie10646 said: Like @jhb171achill, the name of the Great King always gets my attention too. Hey, @Darius43, you've only got eleven spoil wagons, according to my database - do you need more? I look forward to seeing an NCC Castle careering through on a late-running Boat Train! Hi Leslie, I’ll see how long a spoil siding I can sensibly squeeze in and see how many wagons are needed Cheers Darius 1 1 1 Quote
Darius43 Posted Wednesday at 16:38 Author Posted Wednesday at 16:38 And another makes three. Cheers Darius 7 Quote
Mol_PMB Posted yesterday at 08:16 Posted yesterday at 08:16 This is one of the buses on the shuttle to the Greatest Gathering in Derby today Made me think of this thread! 5 1 Quote
Darius43 Posted 18 hours ago Author Posted 18 hours ago Leyland Tiger - I left Belfast for university and then work in 1983 so the Leopards are the busses I remember. Cheers Darius Quote
Galteemore Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 37 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Leyland Tiger - I left Belfast for university and then work in 1983 so the Leopards are the busses I remember. Cheers Darius An incredible number - 228 - Leopards were hi jacked and burned. Ulsterbus was run in those days by the remarkable Werner Heubeck - an Afrika Korps veteran from the Herman Goering Division. Heubeck was known for rescuing vehicles in highly risky settings - doubtless deploying skills he’d learned in Tunisia. The RUC despaired of his lone jogging round Belfast in the 70s as a prime target for IRA kidnap! 3 1 1 Quote
Horsetan Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 18 minutes ago, Galteemore said: An incredible number - 228 - Leopards were hi jacked and burned. .... That almost primeval taste for things going on fire has never really gone away. 5 Quote
Broithe Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago A bus made of pallets, for the full experience? 1 3 Quote
skinner75 Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago (edited) 59 minutes ago, Galteemore said: An incredible number - 228 - Leopards were hi jacked and burned. Ulsterbus was run in those days by the remarkable Werner Heubeck - an Afrika Korps veteran from the Herman Goering Division. Heubeck was known for rescuing vehicles in highly risky settings - doubtless deploying skills he’d learned in Tunisia. The RUC despaired of his lone jogging round Belfast in the 70s as a prime target for IRA kidnap! A hell of a lot were destroyed by fire too down in Cork, Kells Transport Museum https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/gallery/haunting-photos-show-corks-abandoned-26935945 https://www.corkbeo.ie/culture/whats-on-news/gallery/abandoned-bus-graveyard-16432007 Edited 17 hours ago by skinner75 1 Quote
Horsetan Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago 30 minutes ago, skinner75 said: A hell of a lot were destroyed by fire too down in Cork, Kells Transport Museum https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/gallery/haunting-photos-show-corks-abandoned-26935945 https://www.corkbeo.ie/culture/whats-on-news/gallery/abandoned-bus-graveyard-16432007 That Werner Heubeck was one of a number of ex-Nazis-made-good after "The Emergency". They were a different breed alright and some seemed to have this almost suicidally-blasé attitude towards dangerous situations, probably because - after the horrors of a full-scale war - anything else was trivial by comparison. Any Man City fans will likely remember their legendary goalkeeper Bert Trautmann who famously played the last 15 minutes of a game with what turned out (three days later) to be a broken neck. That fracture could have either killed him or led to paralysis, but he still played on. Sometimes you just have to stand back and wonder how they did it. 2 1 1 Quote
DJ Dangerous Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago Knowing your usual progress, @Darius43, I thought that this layout would be finished by now, have had several days running, and have been sold off! 1 2 Quote
Galteemore Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago (edited) 34 minutes ago, Horsetan said: That Werner Heubeck was one of a number of ex-Nazis-made-good after "The Emergency". They were a different breed alright and some seemed to have this almost suicidally-blasé attitude towards dangerous situations, probably because - after the horrors of a full-scale war - anything else was trivial by comparison. Any Man City fans will likely remember their legendary goalkeeper Bert Trautmann who famously played the last 15 minutes of a game with what turned out (three days later) to be a broken neck. That fracture could have either killed him or led to paralysis, but he still played on. Sometimes you just have to stand back and wonder how they did it. On strict historical terms, Horsetan, it was not ‘The Emergency’ as far as the six counties were concerned. It was only called ‘The Emergency’ in Eire. NI was a fully fledged part of the UK and as such was a combatant region. Indeed, the first US troops to land in Europe landed in Belfast, and the US Rangers were formed in Carrickfergus To remain vaguely on track, Whitehead/Whiterock shed played a key part in ensuring the NCC’s resilience after the devastating raids on Belfast in April/May 1941. Edited 15 hours ago by Galteemore Quote
Darius43 Posted 15 hours ago Author Posted 15 hours ago Steering the thread back to modelling, the school bus model is like the one that used to take us to Saturday hockey matches against Wallace High School in Lisburn and, on one occasion, Coleraine Inst. Cheers Darius 1 Quote
Galteemore Posted 14 hours ago Posted 14 hours ago 6 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Steering the thread back to modelling, the school bus model is like the one that used to take us to Saturday hockey matches against Wallace High School in Lisburn and, on one occasion, Coleraine Inst. Cheers Darius I’m sure you could turn one out in plum and navy to appear at Whiterock, taking the BRA girls’ hockey team to play Whiterock High School. 1 Quote
Darius43 Posted 13 hours ago Author Posted 13 hours ago (edited) There’s an idea - I tried to find photos of that bus and the double decker but couldn’t find any. The Whiterock School I built for BRM is a primary school so I suspect the BRA team might have an advantage. Cheers Darius Edited 13 hours ago by Darius43 1 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago 6 hours ago, skinner75 said: A hell of a lot were destroyed by fire too down in Cork, Kells Transport Museum https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/gallery/haunting-photos-show-corks-abandoned-26935945 https://www.corkbeo.ie/culture/whats-on-news/gallery/abandoned-bus-graveyard-16432007 Was that the Grimes empire? Quote
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