Midland Irish Peat feldbahn in H0f

[Flying Snail]

11 minutes ago, Sean said:

ive ordered a 0.2mm nozzle which should actually increase resolute detail even further but the print times will double and this little guy took 3 hours as it is! 
 

still not too bad once your patient. 

 

That looks good - I'm looking forward to see how the 0.2mm nozzle performs

[Sean]

certainly in this case it has been beneficial to begin with the loop of set track.

this system is a little unorthodox in that there’s a magnet on the bottom of the loco and the black strip is steel that is used to pull the loco onto the track for adhesion!

 

my own track will have somthing similar hidden in the scenery however it was certainly mind boggling trying to see how it worked without actually having some on hand to play with!

 

the loco is running in and I am assembling 4 wagons on the Busch kits. This way I can get a feel for how the couplings work before I try to add them to my prints! 

[Sean]

 

And a little while later we can finally add some wagons

 

pretty happy with the curves too despite how narrow they may be 

[Sean]

2009 vs Today, Health and safety have come a long way! 

[Sean]

Spent far too many hours altering this last night to suit the chassis, glad with the overall fit though and it should be easier the next time i need to do such a thing!

 

This is printed with the 0.2 and otherwise default settings, took about an hour so not much longer than the 0.4 settings I had been using.

 

the most obvious thing is with the roof and the top of the radiator, the stepping on those curved layers iis much less noticable now

 

another print was done on finer settings which took around 5 hours, but honestly I did not see much if any improvement to that except for a smoother roof and the radiators didnt work on that either.

 

very happy with this overall, the front grille looks great and the one to the side of the radiators is not reproducing all that ell yet.

Edited Friday at 02:28 by Sean

[Flying Snail]

Very nice indeed Sean! The 4mm stock in the background behind it gives some idea of how small this little loco really is!

[Sean]

On 21/10/2025 at 11:18 AM, Mayner said:

Midland Irish Peat (Klasmann and Deilmann) had a (possibly 2) 60cm (2') Gauge systems 

 

This particular trope has been really annoying me as i have struggled to geolocate some of the photos whilst others were fitting into place perfectly.

 

There are infact 2 systems and possibly even a third that isnt documented online but thats speculation untill I see proof. 

the locos and rolling stock were moved from site to site as needed

 

I Initially had been misled as railmap online lists the system  as existing northeast of rathowen but once i found out how to get historical google street view working it quickly became obvious that this was a BNM system.

The second piece of misinformation in my brain was that there was a rail connection directly from the peat works out to smiths bog and that lansdale yard existed close to or inside the peat works at killinagh to nessesitate this link

https://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?017,5203442,5203442 this 1993 visit lists the 2 sites as not being connected but this was the only real reference to this i could find. everything else was fairly ambiguous.

 

Last night I was able to locate landsdale on the map and absolutely everything clicked into place regarding the geolocating.

 

The first system was at the works and there is absolutely no trace of it but the wagons and some track can be seen on the historical imagery  and it has allowed me to piece together the layout.

in this 1996 photo you can see the outline of the plastic sheeting they used to lay under the track. there is a line running down the left side of the works which is where they had some sidings and I think the maintenance area adjacent to the road around a sharp bend. the tippler and run around loop are not really visible in this photo. once track goes into the bog it becomes a temporary thing until they work the area and lift the track so no 2 aerials are really the same.

the 2006 photo shows us a bit more. the run around loop at the tippler is full of wagons and there is a separate rake of wagons on the other side of the loop,  this is a really crude run around loop that is not symmetrical and this compares well on the photos.

the line that runs down the side of the plant and around the bend now leads into a little shed that wasnt present in the 1996 shot. the trackwork itself is greened over.

 

This was basically the whole system at the works except for the temporary layinga out accross the bog which would have changed semi often.

 

 

[Sean]

So this is where the confusion begins.

 

The Lansdale yard branch of the system is the most documented part, and along with that, the most interesting part, however in the available photography the location is credited as being at the works. There a permenant way documented that is around a mile long  however with some sources saying there no rail link to the works.

 

a little contradictory!

 

Having searched the works area many times and coming up blank, as well as the area around smiths bog for any trace of anything  I FINALLY had a breakthrough.

 

 

A long time was spent trying to geolocate any trace the elevator in this photo around the works and I just could not make sense of it being anywhere on or near the main plant.

 

After another while of searching I focused my attention on smiths bog. still after another few evenings of looking i could find no trace of anything, then by chance i set the map imagery to 2024 over a random area and FINALLY I managed to spot  a set of rails which were not  visible on any other map and sure enough I was able to follow these back to a fairly nondescript yard,

 

set street view to 2009 .... AND 

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YNqCSkfhH1pabVCV6

THIS is lansdale yard.

 

THIS is the proof! the 2 tracks are still embedded just like in the flickr photo above!

 

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VCSP532Zt194LtAZA

from What i can make out, this is  a surviving level crossing. you can follow the tracks down to smiths bog and back into that yard  but you can see where it breaks up at one point, it is said that this branch line flooded and this was the final nail in the coffin for the railway here.

[Sean]

 

Here are the known photos of the permenant way that i have.

 

I have spent far too many nights on this, so to be able to match all of the images to locations on a map has been a big thing for me heh.

[Mol_PMB]

Great research! It’s worth it, to understand how the system was laid out, and together with the photos that ought to help work out how it was operated. 
Have you been able to visit any of the locations yourself?