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Christmas Quiz
Today, we have naming of engines… the following are all clues to names carried by Irish engines, although some may not quite line up with the reasoning of those who bestowed the names. See how many you...
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News & Views
Despite the recent increase in our subscription rates, several members included donations with their renewals, and some people said they still consider New Irish Lines as very good value for money. I’d...
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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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Lineside Details: GSWR Mileposts
Alan O’Rourke Irish railways used a number of methods to mark distances: the symbolic steel sheet squares, diamonds, triangles and arrow-heads of the MGWR were probably the most original design....
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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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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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