Patrick

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Designs have been approved and are being readied for production. We'll have details on pricing, etc. soon! Here's a video of 'Gordon Highlander' running about on a set of the P4 wheels: https://fb.watch/apz9pSSELO/

Seven years would pre-date the establishment of IRM and any decision to embark on the A Class project, so I think someone had their wires crossed? Still, we'll happily take those plaudits...

Name withheld to deter any would-be pirates. It has now passed through the Suez Canal and the crew are experiencing a balmy Mediterranean evening...

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That's actually the A's baby brother - a C Class Bo-Bo. Fairly certain no A Class locos ventured onto the Courtmacsherry line; it would have been overkill for the level of traffic on the branch!

No stowaways to report. The A Class journey will be revealed in due course.

A quick update on our MDO, MDV and Coil A wagons: the ship carrying them has completed the first leg of its journey and is currently in Singapore to set down and pick up more cargo. The goods are on course to arrive at our warehouse early next month and we will then begin shipping to customers, so the wait is almost over! As Fran has said previously, a number of sets have already sold-out at the pre-order stage and more will soon be added to the endangered list.

Here's one from 1966: By Hugh Llewelyn, on Flickr

Dyson-hauled...

Nicely done, Mick!

Just in case anyone is intersted, I unearthed some more images: The first is another 1950s shot, found on the 'Ship Nostalgia' website: https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/44476/title/mallaig-1950s/cat/522 The rest are from Flickr... 1964: 1965: Undated, but possibly 1970-ish? Looks like a box van on the pier at the extreme left of the photo... 1973 - the line appears to have been lifted or paved over at this point, presumably done prior to the introduction of the car ferry service the previous year.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, @Bon Accord. That information is very useful.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, Wickham and Jim. I hadn't considered bunkering coal when pondering the presence of the 16-tonner - good shout. As you say, that requirement was long gone by the 1970s. So it would seem the pier line was purely for the loading of fish, then? Cheers!

Hi all, The current restrictions on movement are giving me some time to think about layout ideas. One of the more practical* ideas is inspired by stations such as Mallaig, Stranraer Town, Oban, and (inevitably?) Kyle of Lochalsh as they were in the early-mid 1970s (although that timeline will have some elasticity!). With regards to the Mallaig element, I'd like to incorporate a line running from the station to a pier. A brief investigation has resulted in the following: "Extensions to the wharf began almost immediately, with the construction of a fish platform on the landward side of the railway pier..." (From http://www.mallaigheritage.org.uk/exhibit/mallaig.php) There's a decent aerial shot on the excellent Britain from Above website: https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/SAW039541 And the track plan can be made out in this six-inch OSI map from 1959: https://maps.nls.uk/view/75982706#zoom=7&lat=9837&lon=3436&layers=BT (As an aside, is there a particular reason for the sharp curve at the end of the pier? Was it simply to maximise the space available or was its function to retard or derail runaway stock before it went careering over the end of the pier?) The ever-reliable Ernie's Railway Archive on Flickr also has a couple of images from the 1950s: There's an interesting selection of wagons in the first image, including a 16t mineral and what appears to be a fruit van with 'Earles Cement' pasted onto the side. I haven't found any reference to it yet, but would I be correct in assuming that the pier platform was also a transfer point for goods heading onward to Skye? Or is it more likely that the vans have been pressed into use for fish traffic (although that wouldn't explain the presence of the 16-tonner)? If the former, would mail have been transferred here, too? From reading snippets on various online resources, including some threads here on RMweb, it seems that fish was transported by rail from Mallaig up until the mid 1970s, although by this stage it was down to one or two vans at a time, presumably loaded at the station as the pier line seems to have been lifted by this point, and attached to a passenger service. I'm guessing the van(s) then went cross-country to be attached to the Aberdeen-London fish trains? In the universe my layout plan exists in, I'll be supposing that the pier line survived into my chosen period, but nevertheless I'm curious to know more about the above (especially if it gives me an excuse to run some parcels stock ). Finally: at first I wondered why there was no cold storage facility adjacent to the fish platform, but I'm guessing the wagons were already present and stocked with ice from a nearby plant when catches were landed? In that case, would empty vans be dropped off at the same time as loaded vans were collected? Not being overly familiar with such setups, would this have been the norm, or would similar facilities have had a cold storage building next to the transshipment platform? Thanks for reading - all replies appreciated! (*Possibly the only one that hasn't gotten completely out of hand...)

But it's really an AC/DC loco at heart...

'Black Mirror' - Arcade Fire

Piers, is that you? Well, rumour has it that @Irish_R_M has transcended his organic existence to become one with his CAD workstation. Now we just have to figure out how to email a pint of Guinness to him. We have the technology, but as we all know, it doesn't travel well...