Hunslet 102

Interesting project Kieran,are you doing them in BCDR or UTA liveries?

Yes a lovely looking brass kit,nice addition to the fleet

Just thinking of your video and your stock Kieran, you have enough in your locker to do the decades. GNR BUT for 50s, B121,B141s,Jeep and 70 class for 60s, 141,071s,Hunslet for 70s, 071 and 111s in 80s, 201s in the 90s and Dietrich in the 2000s. Look forward to seeing 50 years of change in a video soon!

Nice one Kieran,about 50 years apart from each set. Hard to believe that the journey time for both sets was pretty much the same. I know which one I would prefer to travel in!

The following photo was taken from the Boyne bridge looking into the platforms of GVSt. The Hunslet is heading to the carriage sidings having brought the Enterprise in earlier, while an MED and AEC await their next turn of duties. The photographer has now descended to platform level to photograph the MED and AEC. A very tired looking GVSt, as it was in the early 70s after constant bomb damage,can be clearly seen.

Think I will need to try something like that Colin to keep the whole structure rigid,thanks

Thanks Kieran, a lot of tidying up to do on the layout,the fluctuating temperatures in the loft have resulted in the platform surfaces starting to blister (just in front of the AEC) and a bit of warping of the tobacco factory,probably due to its length. A bit frustrating, but it is either the loft or nothing!!!

Hopefully the next two photos are the right way up! Belfast Great Victoria Street station as I remember it in the early 70s, with BUT and AEC railcars in NIR maroon/cream, Enteprise driving trailer in the new NIR maroon/blue and the ubiquitous DH shunter!

Great work Kieran,a great looking and powerful loco,well done

Yep,that sounds about par for the course for me! Next photo I take I will pay more attention, thanks

Covered well by Kieran's and Noel's replies,the level of experience is experienced, not something for a first time build, you need to have a good knowledge of what you are doing. Hopefully you are in the latter and can produce a top class model.

Great cab ride Noel,that is some size of a layout,certainly going to keep you busy for a while!

Strange,they are the right way up on my iPad?? First time I have ever taken and uploaded a photo from the iPad rather than a camera,any tips to follow would be appreciated.

So,as I am on a trip down memory lane of Adelaide,below are a couple more photos from the glory years of freight that had regular traffic between Dundalk and Adelaide. An A class has just crossed from the yard to the up main line heading back home to Dundalk. A B class is in the headshunt with a couple of fertiliser wagons,while in the yard 2 sister loco's assemble more wagons for a return trip south later. A C class can also be seen,they too done regular freight trips. (The A and C are currently being refurbished!). Lurking in the background was Adelaide's regular pilot loco, Hunslet 102. Although it was meant to marshal the wagons,it spent most of its time idling behind the cement silos while the CIE loco's marshalled their own trains! A close up of my favourite loco and livery (apart from the Hunslet of course)

Ha ha,quite probably! I think you said one time you stayed in Charlieville Avenue, while I stayed just down the street in Hugh Street! The bog meadows was out of bounds for me as a child as you had to cross the main lines to get to it, not that that was ever going to stop us!

Great movie,really like the view from inside the cab!

Thanks Kieran,although the books always help to re-jog the memory! I was lucky growing up beside the bog meadows and playing in the old abandoned stock after the closure of Adelaide locomotive shed. Seeing Adelaide freight yard growing from that and witnessing the various freight and CIE locomotives that arrived on a regular basis,it was just part of everyday growing up back then. It's only in hindsight that we realise we were witness to some of the most golden years on Irish railways!

A wee while since my last post,mainly because nothing much has happened on the layout since it. Still many plans to get put into practice, but for now below are a couple of photos from the mid 60s in the UTA era. A jeep is in charge of some of the final internal goods within Northern Ireland, something that would cease before NIR took control. It is seen passing an AEC railcar,in UTA green and regional livery, while the 2 CIE B class loco's give a more modern theme to the scene and will be around for some more decades, their wagons will mostly be wiped away within a few years.

Lovely Enterprise set Kieran,really captured the atmosphere of the early diesel era.

Haha,nice one Kieran,everything just oozes rural Ireland

Great job Kieran,well done

Nice work Kieran,your production line never ceases!

Nice to recreate something you have just experienced

Super model Ivor,well done

Nice finish with the Sulzer,hope you get the chassis sorted