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County Donegal Railway Model Layout

Donegal Railway Heritage Centre County Donegal Railway CDR [30]
County Donegal Railway Model (Donegal Railway Heritage Center, Heike Thiele CC BY-NC-SA)
Provenance/Rights: Donegal Railway Heritage Center, Heike Thiele / Heike Thiele (CC BY-NC-SA)
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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

Donegal Railway Heritage Centre

Object from: Donegal Railway Heritage Centre

Donegal Railway Heritage Centre is considered one of the county’s hidden gems and is located just 300 metres from Donegal Town Centre. County Donegal...

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