Castletown (Ballyglunin)

Gauge: 1:76.2  | OO Gauge | 4mm to 1ft.

Prototype: Ballyglunin Station

Period: c 1930s

Size: 5.94m x 1.14m (19'6" x 3'9")

Track: Peco code 100

Constructed by the MRSI members:

Bill Philips, Dave Bracken, Michael Delaney, Tony Mirolo, Joe Keegan, Derek Fagan, Sean Lyons.

Layout Manager: John Lowes

Ballyglunin Station, Co. Galway, was run by Midland Great Western Railway Company on the Athenry and Tuam Railway is better known as Castletown from the film The Quiet Man staring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara.

The layout represents the station and the surrounding area  with the village of Cong (where John Wayne had the fight) at one end and "the cottage" at the other

This layout will be at our MODEL RAILWAYS & HOBBIES show in October 2026.

It will also represent the MRSI at Model Rail Scotland in Glasgow on Feburary 2023.