Neil Ramsay

Botar an Dunmore (Dunmore Road Station)

My little garden line represents a (very) small section in County Galway of the proposed (but never built) Ulster and Connaught lIght Railway. This was an ambitious plan to create 240 miles of main line narrow gauge across Ireland, linking a number of existing 3 foot gauge railways.

Of course, this is just an excuse to run a variety of Irish 3 foot gauge prototypes, although I have tried to keep to a more or less 1950's setting.

My main interest is in building rolling stock and running historically correct trains, so I have little on my line apart from railway stuff - and of course the natural landscape.

I am lucky enough to have a number of live steam locos and battery diesels (mainly railcars) - all manually controlled to haul my home made stock.

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The railway is just a plain oval, with a passing loop at the station. Track is mainly wooden sleepered, with a healthy (not for the sleepers!) growth of moss. I hope to capture the run down atmosphere of 1950's Irish railways.

My favourite lines are the Cavan and Leitrim, Clogher Valley, Ballymena and Larne, and the wonderful Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway, and this is reflected in my models, but I have built examples from most of the lines that survived until WW2.

All my models are built to the scale of 15mm to the foot (1:20.3), which gives sthe correct gauge/scale relationship for 45mm track.

Neil Ramsay

Herefordshire England