# County Donegal Railway Model Layout
[Donegal Railway Heritage Centre](https://ulster.ie.museum-digital.org/index.php?t=institution&instnr=3)
Collection: [County Donegal Railway CDR](https://ulster.ie.museum-digital.org/index.php?t=sammlung&instnr=3&gesusa=3)
Inventory number: 30
Description
The model shows Donegal town railway station with adjoining outbuildings on a scale 5 mm to the foot and tracks towards the Barnesmore Gap including the Barnesmore Halt building. All landscaping works, buildings and background oil paintings are meticulously and accurate.
It was build during the 1940s and 1950s by George R Hanan as a semi-portable layout.
(5.5 mm to 1 foot scale (1:55.4 or 1:55) is used for modelling narrow gauge railways (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.5_mm_scale))
Material/Technique
Plywood, metal, cardboard, balsa wood, paper, paint, plaster of Paris, rubber sponge, sifted sawdust, granulated cork, dyed loofah, wire, cable
Measurements
200 cm x 95 cm, 183 cm x 68 cm, 80 cm x 40 cm
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- Created ...
+ Who: [George Robert Hanan (1922-2009)](https://ulster.ie.museum-digital.org/index.php?t=people&id=173017)
## Links / Documents
- [Railway Modeller](https://docplayer.net/79215311-Railway-modeller-i-p.html)
## Keywords
- [Modellbau](https://ulster.ie.museum-digital.org/index.php?t=tag&id=12055)
- [Mold](https://ulster.ie.museum-digital.org/index.php?t=tag&id=5628)
- [Railway](https://ulster.ie.museum-digital.org/index.php?t=tag&id=876)
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Last update: 2021-10-16 20:02:46
[CC BY-NC-SA @ Gedenkstätte Gestapo-Lager Neue Bremm](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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- https://www.museum-digital.de/data/ie-ulster/resources/documents/202107/28120756854.pdf
- https://ulster.ie.museum-digital.org/data/ie-ulster/images/3/13-30/county_donegal_railway_mo/county-donegal-railway-model-13.jpg
- https://ulster.ie.museum-digital.org/data/ie-ulster/images/3/13-30/county_donegal_railway_mo/county-donegal-railway-model-layout-13.jpg