Ballyconnel Rd 3mm/TT
Welcome to the Irish Riviera
County Sligo, its wonderful beaches, Atlantic rollers and the barytes mining operations which brought the railway to this part of Ireland in 1866. It is now1955 and the few tourists and remnants of the barytes industry are just about justifying the continued operation of this distant outpost of the international Great Northern Railway of Ireland.
Our circular baseboard is cut from 9mm ply with side and end supports and cross strengtheners also in ply and supported on 1”x1” legs. The circle is actually 6 separate units that bolt, with end boards, into 3 pairs for transport in two cars. With Train control (standard DC), point motors (Tortoise), Electromagnetic uncouplers (Seep) and servo drivers (MegaPoints) for signal operation there is a lot of wire underneath, using 25 way connecters across the joints. KPC controllers are normally used for train control.
Scenery is built on plaster base with Woodland Scenics detail. The road is ply and incorporates a modified “Faller” road system. Buildings are scratchbuilt in plastic sheet or Das covered ply.
Locos and stock is either scratchbuilt or modified kit and use B&B couplings. Most of the track is typical British bullhead using 3mm society rail, plastic chairs and wooden sleepers – all quite suitable for Irish 5’3” gauge.
All this in 3mm: 1 foot (1:101.6) scale, on 15.75mm gauge (no, not “00”) and presented to you by Andrew Shillito, Mick Rawlings, Stephen Moor and Laurence Hendry
We hope you enjoy your visit,
The Ballyconnell Road Team.
bo-bo C201 on the morning mixed from Bundoran to Sligo
Sligo – Bundoran Junction goods passing Yeats Motors on the adjacent N15 main road
Freight from Sligo hauled by UG class 0-6-0 no 149 passes a CIE train from Bundoran at Ballyconnell Road.
Belfast-Sligo express with S class 4-4-0 no 170 Erigal – 009
Belfast-Sligo express with S class 4-4-0 no 170 Erigal pulling away from the Ballyconnell Road stop
