Real micro layouts

[NIR]

Between Downhill and Castlerock tunnel portals

400 feet long

Pointless, but you get the rare chance to model a somersault distant signal

Edited April 30, 2020 by NIR

[NIR]

Compound off Alexandra Road, Dublin Port

400 feet long

Inglenook with sector plate entry and 'piano line' exit, allows working through to some other facility

Edited April 30, 2020 by NIR

[NIR]

On Alexandra Road, Dublin Port

400 feet long

Timesaver with 'piano line' exit from upper turnout, no kickback so no loop required... maybe reverse lower turnout to a kickback and mimic a loop offscene to the right using a traverser

Edited September 14, 2020 by NIR

[Arbhin]

Youghal station and beach. 

On 400 feet you can depict the now closed old station of Youghal. ireland - Google Maps.pdf

I hope this is a right way of doing this. Tried to add a picture to the post. 

 

Greetings, Arbhin

[NIR]

Cork Albert Quay, as truncated headshunt

Natural inglenook with the perfect scenic break, lots of back and forth with Cs and baby GMs, stock old and new ...or maybe a 'reverse inglenook', a scenic traverser leading more immediately onto a longer headshunt

Michael H C Baker/The Railway Magazine, May 1975

Edited September 15, 2020 by NIR

[Niles]

St John's Mill siding south of Enniscorthy would make a compact enough little layout... the IRRS journal did a feature on it a few issues back.

Edit: issue in question is actually available here as a sample: http://irishrailarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IRRS_J192_2017_February_sample.pdf

Edited September 14, 2020 by Niles

[jhb171achill]

Baltimore, Co. Cork, Valentia Harbour, Co. Kerry and Westport Quay, Co Mayo are all perfect for a small terminus. There's even scope for a passenger train in all three - albeit a prototypically small one. And if the line leaves the station and disappears into an Albert Quay-like cutting........perfect.

Two engines, half a dozen goods vans, an open wagon or two, a bogie coach and a tin van, and you're good to go!

Edited September 14, 2020 by jhb171achill