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Locomotive Portrait
SL&NCR 0-6-4T 'Lissadell' in 7mm scale Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway 0-6-4T Lissadell in 7mm scale from John Brennan’s collection, a fine scale model running on scale 5′ 3″ gauge,...
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Something a Bit Bigger…
I am grateful to Neil Ramsay for these photos of his wonderful 15mm scale model of CDR six-wheel saloon no 1. The bodywork is cut from plywood, built up in layers to produce the panelling, the use...
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Norwich to… Cultra?
Steve Rafferty Of all the numerous visits to model railway exhibitions I have made, only once have I been rewarded with sight of an “Irish” layout (Adavolye at Epsom). Putting my faith in providence,...
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GNR Butter Van
Alan O’Rourke In the days when everything went by rail, some companies found it worth while building highly specialised vehicles for perishable traffics, which attracted premium rates, even if it...
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Something New; Something Old
David Malone Several modellers have had a go at fitting sound chips into the Bachmann-Murphy 141 although some seem to be using slightly larger speakers than I did. To replace the unusable round one...
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Converting the Murphy-Bachmann 141 Class Diesel to 21mm Gauge
Denis Bates The General Motors 141 Class diesel of CIE was introduced in 1962, and for over 40 years has been among the most successful of the Irish diesels. So it was not by accident that Murphy...
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A Rake of Coaches: Or How Solving One Problem Leads to Another
John Mayne It started out simply enough early in 2004. I saw the listing for a laminate brake standard on the Worsley Works web site and thinking it was a model of the 1958 brake composites, I bought...
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Some Irish Conversions
Denis Grimshaw Whilst these models are not built to fine-scale standards, and certainly not to a professional level, they do reasonably represent the classes modelled. In any case, using 00-gauge...
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A Pair of CDR ‘Twins’
Paul Titmuss The "twins:" the van on the left is from Ninelines, that on the right (and next to the loco in the next photograph) is the Alphagraphix/Inscalemodels combination Maybe surprisingly there...
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Editorial: May 2009
Alan O’Rourke It is now ten years since I took over the post of editor of New Irish Lines, and I am rather aware that my little musings are usually of a retrospective nature, so it may be rather...
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