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Irish narrow gauge in the garden

By Angela Cotey | April 25, 2009

| Last updated on January 11, 2021


Neil Ramsay's garden railroad

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Neil Ramsay’s garden railway
Bo-bo diesel, built for the West Clare Railway in 1955, with two six-wheel saloon carriages in CIE livery, waits at the station on Neil Ramsay’s railway.
Marc Horovitz
Neil Ramsay's garden railway
avan and Leitrim train in the livery of the nationalized Irish transport system, Coras Iompair Eireann, or CIE. The sea of tiny, green leaves, replicating Ireland’s plains and hills, highlights the realisitic rolling stock
Marc Horovitz
Neil Ramsay’s garden railway
Cavan and Leitrim loco Nº 8 enters the station past the somewhat battered array of lower-quadrant semaphore signals. Mossy embankments and roadbed accentuate the woodsy landscape.
Marc Horovitz

Railway at a glance

Name of railroad: None-the station is called Dunmore Road (Botar an Dunmore)
Scale: 15mm = 1 foot (1:20.3)
Gauge: 45mm (and a small section of 79mm)
Era: 1950s
Theme: Irish narrow gauge
Age: 9 years
Motive power: Live steam and battery
Length of mainline: Approx. 30 yards
Max. gradient: Level
Type of track: Handmade wooden ties; mainly Bonds flat-bottom rail; Peco G45 points
Minimum radius: 7 foot
Structures: Scratchbuilt railway buildings and signals
Control system: Manual

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