Dugort Harbour

[jhb171achill]

“Ye enjoy your holidays? Hopefully see ye back next year, if this station’s still open….”

[Westcorkrailway]

16 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Unusual congestion at Dugort Harbour  on this day in 1964. The branch passenger train today has Crossley A42, still in green, while two 141s potter about - one on the goods and the other stabling here due to congestion up the line at Castletown West with summer “Mystery Trains” choking up the station.

Aren’t those “A”s sublime…..

That oul handrail on the front has popped out again. Any good clues for fixing them without huge dollops of glue?

While the handrail adds to the authenticity…perhaps fixing it would be worth it. Mine had similar issues but it went back in with little to any fuss and has been perfectly level and sturdy ever since 

 

 

[jhb171achill]

A42 trundles away from Castletown West on the last leg of its journey with the goods from Cork. Having dropped off 34 wagons at Castletown,  this is what’s left for Dugort Harbour. One goods van with soap powder, gas cylinders, bags of flour and a few parcels, and a couple of open wagons to bring turf back, and a couple of empty cattle trucks to take some sheep up to the midlands. It’s 1962.

Edited August 25, 2022 by jhb171achill

[Noel]

Looking great Jonathan. Is that a layout extension in progress?

[jhb171achill]

3 hours ago, Noel said:

Looking great Jonathan. Is that a layout extension in progress?

Yes, it is. More DAS clay needed, then ballast, undergrowth, bushes, buildings etc etc.

[jhb171achill]

Passing the same spot in the other direction two years later, B141 has the 11:40 goods for Cork as it slows to enter Castletown West.

[Rush and Lusk]

lovely modelling Jonathan - I particularly like the second picture from August 13th. 

George 

[Dempsey]

I'm looking forward to seeing this scene develop 

[jhb171achill]

32 minutes ago, Dempsey said:

I'm looking forward to seeing this scene develop 

I really need to get on with the scenery. Thanks to my Learned Friend who was here today, all of the trackwork bar one siding, a turntable road, and the fiddle yard are complete, with wiring well under way. The area in the foreground in the last picture of B141 will be a boggy area, as found adjacent to many a railway (and everything else!) in the souih-west and west. I'm reading up on online tutorials about scenery at the moment to see how best to tackle this; I will omit, of course, the clouds of midges which ate my arms the other day in Co Mayo. They're a bit fiddly to model anyway.

I was able to get a very realistic bag of turf sods on fleabay, made by a German manufacturer, and I need to get to grips with grass-making machines..... and varnish for the ditches and pools to masquerade as boggy stagnant water.

[JasonB]

On 25/8/2022 at 6:26 PM, jhb171achill said:

Passing the same spot in the other direction two years later, B141 has the 11:40 goods for Cork as it slows to enter Castletown West.

Lovely stuff, Jonathan. The extension is progressing nicely. Enjoying watching it develop. 

[jhb171achill]

391 has the goods tonight. Well, this night in 1960, perhaps….

[jhb171achill]

All is quiet on a September evening at dusk at Dugort Harbour in 1965.

The sky is about to empty.

Nobody about until the morning, but our gricer photographer has free reign - the gates lie open all the time, as they have done for years. The night watchman is at home listening to the wireless, the kettle simmering on the range.

Tomorrow, B165 will assemble a short goods train and head up to town. 

Edited September 5, 2022 by jhb171achill

[David Holman]

Subtle colours, careful lighting and a generous bit of imagination all come together rather well, methinks.

[jhb171achill]

6 hours ago, David Holman said:

Subtle colours, careful lighting and a generous bit of imagination all come together rather well, methinks.

Pure accident, David; the dusk light may claim the credit. I had got some bits for the scenery and it just happened to be past daylight when I left them up to the attic, so I just took those pics there and then to see what they would look like!

[Bob229]

Nicely weathered wagons as darkness falls, I like the overgrown sidings looks very well 

[David Holman]

18 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Pure accident, David; the dusk light may claim the credit. I had got some bits for the scenery and it just happened to be past daylight when I left them up to the attic, so I just took those pics there and then to see what they would look like!

 Photography is all about capturing the moment - sometimes spending hours in one place, waiting for something to happen, others simply being in the right place at the right time. As model makers, I guess we spend hours actually creating that space ourselves, so it is rather nice when it all comes together like this.

[jhb171achill]

“Wheel’s off it. We’ll have to carry the rest to the van”

“That oul trolley hasn’t even been oiled since the Tans were here…..”

On a September afternoon in 1966, the afternoon train leaves Dugort Harbour… 

[jhb171achill]

The Mallow goods is busy tonight….

[jhb171achill]

Following another visit by my Learned Friend, today was a momentous occasion as the first goods train rolled into Castletown West from the Dugort Harbour direction.

The evening sunlight illustrates this, and the great detail on several Provincial Wagons products, plus a JM Design brake van, perfectly.

[jhb171achill]

When starting scenery, in this case with DAS clay and a handful of stones out of the garden as rocks, I have found that it’s very easy to make even ground features very overscale. 
 

I have found that setting features in place first, then taking pictures of them in black and white against a backdrop of a wagon or locomotive, tends to show up very starkly whether they’re about right or not.

Here, an area intended to be very rocky with gorse or brambles all round it. I removed some bigger ones, and pressed these ones down more into the DAS clay. 

[jhb171achill]

Eamonn Ryan, if you’re listening, turn your head away.

Because they’re still digging turf down in West Kerry, and will be until I pop my clogs. Here, loads in a truck and an open wagon must come from somewhere, so there will be a turf bog as seen. Vertical marks where it has been cut were a fiddly thing to reproduce half-convincingly. Acrylic paints next…. 

[jhb171achill]

And I'm just noticing - I threw a few sleeper off-cuts into the  open wagon amongst the turf, but they don't blend in as well as you'd think! Probably about six in there.........

(Must do better!)

[meathdane]

6 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Eamonn Ryan, if you’re listening, turn your head away.

Because they’re still digging turf down in West Kerry, and will be until I pop my clogs. Here, loads in a truck and an open wagon must come from somewhere, so there will be a turf bog as seen. Vertical marks where it has been cut were a fiddly thing to reproduce half-convincingly. Acrylic paints next…. 

Love that touch of rural Ireland, really helps sell the area!

Looking forward to seeing how the extension progresses!

[2996 Victor]

12 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

I have found that setting features in place first, then taking pictures of them in black and white against a backdrop of a wagon or locomotive, tends to show up very starkly whether they’re about right or not.

What a brilliant idea! I have awful difficulty in gauging the relative proportions of landscape features to the point where I end up with either rapid erosion or orogeny to correct massive errors of judgement!

Great photos of the goods train in the evening sunlight, very evocative.

Cheers,

Mark

[jhb171achill]

On a bitterly cold snow-covered day in 1957, No. 372 meanders across the West Kerry landscape with a local train from Dugort Harbour to Castletown West. Looks like there’s plenty more of it in the sky.

Edited September 19, 2022 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

“It’s Jack Byrne’s! His kids let it out again. We’d better catch it before it gets down the cutting. That twice this month!”

[jhb171achill]

”So yer man gets to Killorglin that day with the sheep special, and he unhooks the van, an’ wait till ye hear what the eejit does then….”

”SSSSHH! He’s coming, tell me later!”

……………………………………………….

“Ah, no, I wouldn’t be training on the diesels, sure I’m fifty years old. I joined the Great Southern in Kanturk when I was fifteen, first month of the GSR it was. No, I’m leaving. Me son can get me a job as a night watchman in a rope factory in Birmingham an’ sure I’ll live with them…..”

Edited September 19, 2022 by jhb171achill

[StevieB]

What’s the carriage immediately behind 372?

Stephen

[jhb171achill]

8 minutes ago, StevieB said:

What’s the carriage immediately behind 372?

Stephen

It’s the nearest thing available to a GSWR bogie of the type still very common into the mid 1960s. (If I post pictures of it often enough, IRM will bring out a model!).

Its origin is a LMS clerestorey corridor which I think was in a train set - I got it second hand. It just needs its waistline lining, numbers and weathering.

Its a nice little thing - might get another and put a more authentic ordinary roof on it, and maybe the older dark green with double lining for variety.

That’s the compartment side.

Edited September 19, 2022 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

“It’s not even daily from November - just Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Tommy’s laid off. Sure look at today - one van an’ sure it’s barely a quarter full. The mill has got two lorries now. There’ll be nothing left but the cattle and the beet - they’ll hardly keep it open much longer….”

[jhb171achill]

An old picture out of a drawer in the IRRS…… approaching Dugort Harbour in 1934….

[popeye]

36 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

It’s the nearest thing available to a GSWR bogie of the type still very common into the mid 1960s. (If I post pictures of it often enough, IRM will bring out a model!).

Its origin is a LMS clerestorey corridor which I think was in a train set - I got it second hand. It just needs its waistline lining, numbers and weathering.

Its a nice little thing - might get another and put a more authentic ordinary roof on it, and maybe the older dark green with double lining for variety.

That’s the compartment side.

Your building up the stock nicely. 

[jhb171achill]

“See he’s got that hair oil stuff - Brylcreem - an’ them pointy shoes, an’ goin’ on about showbands and record players an’ the Beatles an’ hippies on the wireless….. I dunno what the world’s comin’ to, Pat”

”A spell on the Tralee goods would sort him out! Three in the morning in an oul guards van with a leaky roof! I tell ye, there’s no work in them young wans. Oh, ye hear yer man Churchill’s dead in England?”

”Ah, sure it’s him sent the Tans in forty odd years ago…..”

3 minutes ago, popeye said:

Your building up the stock nicely. 

Just a few C class & 6-wheelers to go, and I’ve about a dozen Provincial kits to make up still. Yes, I’m pleased with the collection so far…..

[jhb171achill]

Early afternoon, so this must be the connection from the morning Dublin train arriving.

It’s 1957…..

[Tullygrainey]

15 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Early afternoon, so this must be the connection from the morning Dublin train arriving.

It’s 1957…..

 

I love the light in these photos. I can feel the heat of that sun on my back.