The NCC Y Class 0-6-0T is easy to do, just by using a Jinty model, repainting it and adding the NCC lettering and number plates (be it 18 or 19) and that’s that. I thought I’d choose an easy one.

The DSER K2 Class 2-6-0 would have to be Hornby’s James the Red Engine from the Thomas the Tank Engine range, only without the face and a different tender shell (more challenges to do, really, but still a fun project).

As for the B1a I mentioned earlier, I am gonna do that and also recreate an Irish steam preservation scene that coulod have been.

In addition, I was inspired by my mother and grandfather who both come from Ireland, and after research of Irish steam locomotives, to create a classic children’s series entitled Engines of the Emerald Isle. It’s in the tradition of Ivor the Engine and other 1950s children’s programmes.

Still, if I’m trying to recreate Irish steam in both scales, then my all-time fave Irish locomotive is definitely the GSR B1a!