North Down Show

[kirley]

I was given the opportunity to help operate ‘Killagan’ layout at the North Down Show and I only managed to take few photographs selfishly of my models running on this layout.  It was strange to see them running on a different layout but worth the hassle of taking out the decoders to run on DC.

 

 

My DH pulling Colm's Brakedown Train

 

 

No4 Railcar, AEC Set and a GNR Blue all on this very NCC layout.

 

 

DH with Ken's GNR Weedspraying train.

 

 

There were lots of other interesting traffic movements which I did not photograph, maybe others will post photos of them.

[Hunslet 102]

Nice photos Kieran and a nice variety of stock. Like the weed train and crane,is the crane scratchbuilt?

[kirley]

,is the crane scratchbuilt?

 

The Brake down Train is Colm Flanagan's, I think the crane is of Dublo vintage. 

[colmflanagan]

Indeed the "30 ton steam crane" crane is a Hornby Dublo model dating originally from my school days.  I did it in 2005.  It lost its rather crude winding handles but with a few other tweaks it looks very well. However it is diecast and  does NOT run on Bleach Green (we tried!) - it is too heavy to pull up the gradients, unless you double head. Kieran's DH struggled a bit on the  level at Killagan.

 

here's a few pictures of it on a previous home  layout.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[colmflanagan]

I've posted some more pics from the show, on the "Killagan" thread.

Colm

[Hunslet 102]

Nice crane,does have an NIR look to it