“Silgo Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway – Real and Modelled” by David Richardson

David Richardson and David Holman share their love of this little railway and their modelling of it. The SL&NCR was perhaps the quintessential Irish railway. Engines bore names and not numbers, archaic rolling stock, and a gradient profile that a rollercoaster engineer would shy away from. It attracted plaudits from Hamilton Ellis for its aesthetics, and from R N Clements for its engineering. On a journey down the line, the two Davids tell the story of how the railway defied the odds, only finally collapsing when its larger neighbour took away its raison d’etre, and tell what it took to recreate the Sligo Leitrim in 7mm scale.