Dugort Harbour

[Patrick Davey]

Looking forward to seeing the branch set making the full trip down to the terminus!

[derek]

great to see the "second section" finally raised up. Looking forward to developments

 

[jhb171achill]

This evening a PW inspection has taken place, and a tin car has visited Dugort Harbour where it will remain at the disposal of the south-western division PW engineer until 1973. Its home will be here or in the spare loco siding at Castletown.

We’ll say nothing about the time when the senior porter in charge, his uncle out the Tully Road, and yer man who likes the Beatles and lives next to the Volkswagen dealer in town, took it for a spin out to Caltragh and back at 4 a.m. after a lock-in in McLaughlins, in order to leave the O’Shea girls back to the gatehouse….

My first foray into brass and soldering. Thanks to Des for the kit (SSM) and Michael for his tuition and long-suffering patience with a rank amateur.

 

Edited March 27 by jhb171achill

[Galteemore]

Great stuff JB. Well done indeed. Brass 6w coach next. And I bet it’s felt really satisfying to see something you’ve made yourself ! 

[Mol_PMB]

Super - that really looks the part!

 

[jhb171achill]

38 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Great stuff JB. Well done indeed. Brass 6w coach next. And I bet it’s felt really satisfying to see something you’ve made yourself ! 

 

30 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Super - that really looks the part!

 

As a first attempt, I'm happy ernough. I was inveigled into trying this out by Michael Doolan, a Dublin-based member of the gauge 0 Guild, who some here will know. So I've been learning the ropes - or trying to. I saw a piucture online somewhere of a small Wickham car used in some other country - might have been in South America, I forget, which had black "wasp" stripes on each end, which i though looked well. But I went instead for a somewhat work-worn plain CIE-style "factory finish".

The window wipers were super-fiddly, and I made a hames of those, but next time hopefully better.

Next thing I'm attempting is a small four-wheeled passenger luggage van, similar to some early GSWR ones, which is on offer from Roxey. It's close enough to look Irish.

I remember seeing the four Wickhams like the one above all over the system in the 1970s, usually stuffed away up a weedy siding somewhere.......... I will alternate parking this one between Dugort loco siding as shown, and Castletown West loco yard or cattle bank.

 

[jhb171achill]

Should have added - Mousa Models of Scotland, which I believe is partly defunct due to retirement of proprietor, used to offer a nice brass kit of a six-wheeled first class family saloon. The coach is North British Railway in origin, but like the Hattons Genesis stuff it is sufficiently GSWR-esque to look at home in a fictitious West Kerry setting, downgraded to a second class coach by the late 1950s.

Nice looking yoke, though it has to be ordered well in advance. It is definitely WAAY out of my league now and for some time to come, but I'd be keen to eventually see what I could do with that.

[Galteemore]

Nonsense JB. You’ll be building a fleet of D16s in no time at all. That yellow yoke seems square and free of creases. That’s a basic skill well mastered already. 
 

But this does bring home a lesson. If you see a brass kit you like - and can afford it - buy it. The supply line is generally one person deep and all it can take is a bad winter or a car collision and your supplier is out of the picture - possibly permanently. It’s also a fair argument for keeping your modelling focus reasonably narrow - limits the amount of temptation! 

Edited March 27 by Galteemore

[jhb171achill]

D16s!!!!

 

Drooool

[Tullygrainey]

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

 

As a first attempt, I'm happy ernough. I was inveigled into trying this out by Michael Doolan, a Dublin-based member of the gauge 0 Guild, who some here will know. So I've been learning the ropes - or trying to. I saw a piucture online somewhere of a small Wickham car used in some other country - might have been in South America, I forget, which had black "wasp" stripes on each end, which i though looked well. But I went instead for a somewhat work-worn plain CIE-style "factory finish".

The window wipers were super-fiddly, and I made a hames of those, but next time hopefully better.

Next thing I'm attempting is a small four-wheeled passenger luggage van, similar to some early GSWR ones, which is on offer from Roxey. It's close enough to look Irish.

I remember seeing the four Wickhams like the one above all over the system in the 1970s, usually stuffed away up a weedy siding somewhere.......... I will alternate parking this one between Dugort loco siding as shown, and Castletown West loco yard or cattle bank.

 

Excellent! Great start JB. There's one thing you should know though. About this brass kit building malarkey. It's addictive 

 

[David Holman]

A very decent first step and one to be proud of. Everything else is an extension of this - including moving to 7mm scale/36.75mm gauge.

[jhb171achill]

Following my post on 24th March, the gap is finally filled.

Track connected; all again thanks great assistance from jhbJnr and my Expert Learned Friends (you know who you are).

Now, a yella machine takes a spin into Dugort Harbour. Once all declared good, the crew hit the bus back to Castletown West.

 

 

“Footplate Pass?

Nah, don’t worry if you’ve lost it. C’mon up. What part of England did ye say ye were from?”

Edited 8 hours ago by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

 

“Maura, I can do this on me own. Just open the van door. An’ would ye ever nip into Sarah on your way past an’ tell her to boil up the water, coz I want a bath tonight!”

Edited 8 hours ago by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

June 1965.

The evening train being loaded, by hand. The ramp and the barrow were left in the van of the afternoon train to the junction, so they’ll be passing through the Carrowmore boglands by now….

Edited 5 hours ago by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

“Did ye see that fella in the Ford Anglia out by Paddy O’Sullivan’s this afternoon? He must have been going at thirty miles an hour. He’s up in Eddie an’ Bernie’s now all scratched and blood, but the car’s wrecked….”

“Ye’ll never lift a thing that big with a hand barrow!”

”Yer man with the Anglia….”

”Never mind the man with the damn Anglia, get this loaded before PJ starts givin’ out!”

Edited 8 hours ago by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

Following my first tentative foray into brass, I’m going for something a bit more ambitious now.

The GSWR had a small number of coach-type-panelled short-wheelbase four wheel vans which were variously used as mobile tool vans, hearse vans of parcel vans. Several variations. 

The MGWR had several vans similar in concept, but the Midland being the Midland, the design was about as similar as an ICR is to a grandfather clock.

This Roxey kit, a native of Narrow Gauge Island back in the day, is as similar as can be had. Without windows, I thought it might be a reasonable next step.

If I don’t make an unholy pigs ear of it (and my expert tutor should hopefully stop me) maybe a carriage next….

So, the kit arrived….

The prototype, by the way, ran on the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, ultimately the Southern Railway.

It’ll end up either in CIE dark lined green, or if I make it into a departmental tool van, it’ll either be wagon grey or dark lined green with red ends.

Another possibility is very badly faded GSR maroon, for when I’m in early 50s running mode….

[Mol_PMB]

Looks good.

See what your mentor says, but if I were building it I would drill some holes roughly where I've put the red spots below, so that I could solder the overlay panels from the back.

[Galteemore]

7 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Looks good.

See what your mentor says, but if I were building it I would drill some holes roughly where I've put the red spots below, so that I could solder the overlay panels from the back.

Agreed. Will save a lot of cleaning up…..

[jhb171achill]

32 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Looks good.

See what your mentor says, but if I were building it I would drill some holes roughly where I've put the red spots below, so that I could solder the overlay panels from the back.

 

25 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Agreed. Will save a lot of cleaning up…..

I will definitely take this on board!

[popeye]

This will test you, good luck.

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, popeye said:

This will test you, good luck.

Thank you, I am sure it will test me, plus my patience!