jhb171achil Posted July 30, 2021 Author Share Posted July 30, 2021 B165 brings in a short coal train, then sidles off light engine back to Castletown…. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted July 30, 2021 Author Share Posted July 30, 2021 “I don’t care WHO you’re waiting for, even if it’s President Kennedy! I can’t hold the train!” 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted July 30, 2021 Author Share Posted July 30, 2021 “What’s in that package?” - “ Say nothin’, OK, yer man would have us sacked!” “US? Ye mean YOU!” 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelG Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 On 30/07/2021 at 22:52, jhb171achil said: “I don’t care WHO you’re waiting for, even if it’s President Kennedy! I can’t hold the train!” Is that a beetle or is it Austin powers? Fab scenes. Where did you source the LLPs? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stivesnick Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Hi Just spotted this thread. As others have noted, it's a great layout. Loved the long freight train, as a reminder to all modellers, that even branch lines could produce a decent sized train from time to time. Regards Nick 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted August 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2021 On 26/07/2021 at 01:06, jhb171achil said: I've also just found your layout, what a gem. I especially like the remains of the turntable. I remember seeing one of Iain Robinson's models once, and realizing that it's possible to model the passing of time by showing traces of the past in the landscape. I've not had a go at it yet, but this is a great example. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 6, 2021 Author Share Posted August 6, 2021 8 hours ago, NoelG said: Is that a beetle or is it Austin powers? Fab scenes. Where did you source the LLPs? Excuse my ignorance, Noel - what’s a LLP? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 6, 2021 Author Share Posted August 6, 2021 9 hours ago, Mikkel said: I've also just found your layout, what a gem. I especially like the remains of the turntable. I remember seeing one of Iain Robinson's models once, and realizing that it's possible to model the passing of time by showing traces of the past in the landscape. I've not had a go at it yet, but this is a great example. Thank you - much appreciated. At present the layout is just this small terminus and a fiddle yard, but I hope to extend it in the near future. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 6, 2021 Author Share Posted August 6, 2021 10 hours ago, stivesnick said: Hi Just spotted this thread. As others have noted, it's a great layout. Loved the long freight train, as a reminder to all modellers, that even branch lines could produce a decent sized train from time to time. Regards Nick Thank you - yes, it's surprising what traffic a fair day can bring to a small rural Irish village! Some prototypes were like this well into the 1960s, despite a "normal" day's activity being a solitary goods train with barely half a dozen wagons in, and one or two out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 7, 2021 Author Share Posted August 7, 2021 "Novichok? What ya mean, "novichok"? And who's the teenager called Putin?" "Well, that's what the gardaí said....." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 7, 2021 Author Share Posted August 7, 2021 "Have you got the money?" "Sssshhh!!! You're supposed to use the damn code word!" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 7, 2021 Author Share Posted August 7, 2021 The last regular public steam train drifts into Dugort harbour in spring 1963. Diesel replaces steam, with the crew of the last steam train posing with the driver of the first trial run of a B141 into this remote backwater........ 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 7, 2021 Author Share Posted August 7, 2021 Fair Day, summer 1959. Not often three locos are in Dugort harbour at the same time........ The shed was demolished in 1930 to save paying rates, but the pit and water remain. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 7, 2021 Author Share Posted August 7, 2021 "Siezed up?" "Yeah - won't budge." "Sure it was all right last time we needed it..." "Yeah, but that was before last Christmas..." 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirley Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Delightful pictures 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 Early morning at Dugort Harbour. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 The local passenger train arrives. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 B141 runs round and awaits departure, as B165 arrives with the goods and pulls into the loop. It's Fair Day today, so once she leaves, the load will be thirty cattle vans plus the normal half dozen goods vans and wagons....... The empty cattle trucks came down yesterday and wait in the back siding. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 A spare carriage has also been added to the passenger set before it leaves - it is market day, after all......... Meanwhile, the cattle vans await the only busy period of activity the station ever sees now, at the dawn of the "Swinging Sixties"........ 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunslet 102 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Great photos and great story telling again JHB, the layout is a transport back in time 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 Shunting again, as the date of the monthly cattle fair comes around again. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) The local train prepares to leave. Edited August 19, 2021 by jhb171achil 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 "Put that trolley in the hallway, it'll be needed...." ......"Here, I've just heard on the wireless that someone's shot President Kennedy!" "In America? Sure he was only here a few weeks ago!" 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 19, 2021 Author Share Posted August 19, 2021 "Look at that. Just the one passenger. I tell ye, they'll make this place goods only, mark my word. There were only five on it yesterday, including yer man from Drumbane....." 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achil Posted August 22, 2021 Author Share Posted August 22, 2021 The 11:40 goods prepares to leave Dugort Harbour. Today it’s a fairly typical dozen or so vans and a cattle wagon. Meanwhile, a five-coach + heating van empty carriages working arrives, to take Cork supporters to the All-Ireland final. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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