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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

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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

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Michael H C Baker/The Railway Magazine, May 1975

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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!

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