Ben Alder Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Is that better? 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenB Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 It may not be upside down but isn’t back to front now? Lovely photo nevertheless. Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Great scenes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jhb171achil Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share Posted June 9, 2022 Perfect, Ben, many thanks! Dunno what I did............... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenB Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 18 hours ago, Ben Alder said: 🙄 👍 Stephen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 I think I posted these a while back, though if I did i can't find them now; in any event, a few from the station end. Beyond the curve, it is being extended. It started life as a shunting layout, much as any pics I have already posted show. However, a house move 18 months ago has allowed expansion. Little progress has been made so far due to a range of reasons; most particularly the small matter of "life" getting in the way. However, the line now continues along an un-scenic-ed stretch which will be sceneried to resmble a somewhat bleak turf boggy area; the whole thing is meant to be set in some rain-soaked corner of West Cork or West Kerry. Track is now laid as far as the next station, which will be an altogether bigger place, supposedly a terminus of a meandering rural secondary route inspired by the erstwhile Mallow - Waterford route (one goods and two passenger a day each way sort of thing). There will be the odd sugar beet special in winter, and monthly cattle specials, as per typical lines of that type. Beyond that, the line goes through a tunnel mouth (or will, once it's made!) to a fiddle yard, which would represent "Cork". I've nothiong coherent to post on this right now but will in due course. The views below are of a Crossley "C" class appearing with the goods in the 1960s; a Cork, Bandon & South Coast 472 class saddle tank arriving with the goods about 1960, a GM 141 with the daily mixed again in the 1960s, and finally a B121 in original livery about to leave. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) Spare van in the former loco siding; JM Design kit. Couplings need to be adjusted; the van sits about 6ft behind the coach attached to it in scale terms! Edited June 21, 2022 by jhb171achil 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 26, 2022 Author Share Posted August 26, 2022 The extension from terminus shunting layout to one which goes somewhere is under way. Dugort Harbour is meant to be a 4 or 5 mile extension of a line to a larger town in the south-west, “Castletown West”. Beyond that, theoretically a meandering secondary route which eventually joins the main line to Cork, perhaps near Buttevant or somewhere on the South Kerry line. Here, the line meanders through what will become bogland between Dugort & Castletown West. Track now nearly complete - scenery next! An outbound goods in 1962 with A42, and an inbound one in 1964 with B141. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 26, 2022 Author Share Posted August 26, 2022 The area in the foreground in the second last pic will be boggy swampland with turf-boggy-pools. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted September 8, 2022 Author Share Posted September 8, 2022 (edited) A few pictures lately. The track is now connected up into Castletown West, into which the first goods train rolled tonight in beautiful sunshine through the attic window. Some other shots show scenery in its early stages along the route, including a turf bog as it's set somewhere in West Kerry. Couple of pics of a local train leaving Dugort harbour for Castletown West on a summer afternoon in 1966..... Edited September 8, 2022 by jhb171achil 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted September 8, 2022 Author Share Posted September 8, 2022 “…Wheel’s off the damn thing. We’ll have to carry the rest”. ”That thing hasn’t seen even a drop of oil since the black’n’tans were here…..” 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Great photos of a stunning layout, with what looks like a lot more to come 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 ”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!” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 A few about the layout tonight…. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jhb171achil Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 That’s it for tonight! 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted October 26, 2022 Author Share Posted October 26, 2022 Fair Day, August 1960, and steam makes a welcome reappearance…. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted October 26, 2022 Author Share Posted October 26, 2022 Market Day at Dugort Harbour, and there’s a second coach on the midday train…. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted November 3, 2022 Author Share Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) The "tin vans" of Dugort Harbour; a mix of Silverfox, who will shortly send me a silver one and a green one, and J M Design. Edited November 3, 2022 by jhb171achil 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted November 3, 2022 Author Share Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) Castletown West; thus far, no scenery. A start will be made here shortly, as the basics of scenery have reached the outskirts of the station. Edited November 3, 2022 by jhb171achil 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Really like the rural aspect of this layout, so it will be great to see how the bigger Castletown West blends in with Dugort Harbour. Great models of the mainstay rolling stock of the era, tin vans and brake vans 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 (edited) ….. Edited November 27, 2022 by jhb171achil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 “Would ye ever believe it’s nineteen SIXTY in only a week an’ a bit. Sure I was only sayin’ to PJ, remember the time he was a boy porter an’ me a steam raiser in Tralee the night the Black an’ Tans came in!” “Yeah, and it’s this diesel yoke now… that’s Jackie, ye know, the Tipperary fella, drivin’ it. Gawd be with the days when me and Paddy O’Shea had 138 on it….. I tell ye, they’ll have diesels EVERYWHERE by 1980 or something…..” Happy Christmas to all here from Dugort Harbour! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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