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Dogs or hounds in the end bit. Primer coat added.

JM Design MGWR Horse Box Kit. One of John Mayne’s excellent brass kits.

20th Anniversary of the South Dublin Model Railway Club club rooms. I had a grand day at South Dublin’s Open Day yesterday, many great layouts on show but the Adavoyle layout stole to show for me, first time seeing it in operation. Pictures of this layout below. Very impressed with the Club building and facilities. Many thanks for the invitation, great welcome and hospitality.

Great result, well done.

GNRI AEC Railcar with sound. Worsley Works AEC with sound fitted underneath.

KIRLEY JUNCTION – GNRI Trains After completing the 3 new Provincial Wagon kits I decided to run them with other GNRI Stock. The big ‘D’, SG Class on the Goods and No. 171 on the Passenger.

Now they look the part, nice job on them.

KIRLEY JUNCTION – GNRI 6 & 4 Plank Wagons Provincial Wagons latest offering, GNRI Open Wagons, 6 plank and 4 plank height. When I first saw photographs of this model, I thought the lettering was wrong as I couldn’t see the Railway Company having to stencil over the bracing but Leslie showed me a photograph confirming it. These are 3D printed bodies and are very easy to put together. I used a different coupling mount 3D printed by Stephen McCotter of the Ulster Model Railway Club. I had to use a decal softener to get the lettering to sit over the iron work. A bit of light weathering to complete.

KIRLEY JUNCTION - J15 and MGWR 6-wheel Coaches. The rest of the coach kits arrived from Owen O'Neill, assembled, painted and decals added.

KIRLEY JUNCTION - MGWR 6-wheel coaches A number of years back I bought and build some MGW 6-wheel coaches using Alphagraphix card kits and scratch build chassis. While they were okay, I was never completely happy with them mainly down to my poor build. I got Owen O’Neill from Cork to print some 4-wheel flat wagons and I was so pleased with them I approached him to re-create the MGWR coaches and he was prepared to take on the challenge. There were quite a few prototypes before he mastered a technique of doing them. They arrived as separate sides and roofs but also had complete internal walls and seating. I used the existing chassis I had built for the card models so that cut down the work involved. Used British Racing Green gloss and Railtec decals. Brake/3rd 1st/3rd All 3rd All 1st 1st Saloon

I see Colm Flannigan's influence of a multi country layout (Arglass, Coleraine and Stranraer) has spread, and why not. Will some parts of your layout reflect a Scottish track scene Andy?

Well worth the effort Noel.

KIRLEY JUNCTION - J15 and MGWR coaches. 00 Works J15 with MGWR Brake/3rd & 3rd Class coaches. They were 3D printed by Owen O Neill from Cork and I added the chassis and paint. More coaches in the pipe line.

KIRLEY JUNCTION - C Class 225 on local goods.

Delightful scenes

Sligo 0-6-4T Locomotive Lough Erne [Part 2] Attaching the pony truck to the chassis.

Sligo 0-6-4T Locomotive Lough Erne Ever since I saw #27 in RPSI Whitehead I wanted to do a model of it but because of its unusual wheel configuration I could not convert an RTR locomotive and there was no 00 scale brass kit available. I eventually talked Tony Ragg into doing an etch for me. The ability for doing a ‘CAD’ drawing and converting it into etched parts was way beyond my skills and I appreciated him taking me through the process including the making of a card model before doing the etch. The chassis parts were very well designed and easy to put together with tabs/slots included to ensure everything lined up properly. Bogie truck Starting to take shape Footplate added Now to get it working...

SLNC Rolling Stock SLNC Open Wagon Thanks to Ernie’s wonderful photo archive I got a glimpse of an open wagon with these heavy supports on the outside of the body. Gareth Brennan donated a Cambrian kit which I adapted to look like the SLNC’s one. Just to add the brake gear and paint. Finished of the Cambrian wagon conversion and added two of Provincial Wagons Covered Vans to the rake.

Excellent script to go with the picture Andy.

SL&NC Railway I'm on a bit of a SLNC's kick at the moment with two SL&NCR Tri-Composite Coachs No.10 & 11 adapted from Ratio MR coach kits plus 3 Cattle Wagons from Provincial Wagons. Had to get the GNRI to provide the engine power.

Provincial Wagons - SLNC Cattle Wagons It could not be the Sligo, Leitrim without cattle wagons, 3 kits from Leslie's stock.

SL&NCR Tri-Composite Coach No.10 Gareth Brennan suggested my No.9 coach build needed a ‘sister’ so here goes with No.10 using Neil Spinks photograph to work from. Again, used a Ratio MR kit, this time an all-1st coach. It was easer build second time around except for the large double windows. Used a paper template to get the doors in the correct position and then ‘cut and shut’ the plastic sides. Made partitions, converting to roof into a clerestory one and added running boards to the bogies. Primer applied body and ready to paint. Painted as with faded body work, just waiting for buffers to finish off. Buffers added and body given a distressed finish. Here seen with the second of SL&NCR three bogie coaches on the layout.

Containers on a bogie flat, York Road, probably an ex-coach chassis, sorry I can’t attribute the picture.

Love all the superb detail, you’ve been hiding this away for to long. Your coach build is excellent.

SL&NCR Tri-Composite Coach No.9 I came across pictures of this short bogie coach in Neil Sprinks ‘Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway book and the nearest kit I found was a Ratio LMS Express Clerestory Brake 3rd. This SL&NC coach was 44' 6" in length so it was a case of cut and shut adding extra doors and duckets. Sides and ends glued. I don’t like the make-up bogies in the Ratio kit so I replaced them with some LMS ones adapting the kit chassis to take them. Had to add to the roof. Interior partitions and seating added. Using my artistic licence I decided to re-paint the coach as she would have looked at the end of her working life, a faded maroon colour. De Decals added (excellent next day service from Foxes) Ready for a test run. Relying on a GNRI loco to provide the power.