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Finely crafted, from start to finish. Fantastic modelling.

Very nice - super photos! I was wondering whether 220 might appear on the Cork services and I'm pleased to see that it has done, just in time for my visit

Mk 3's! @Davenport

A very reasonable approximation, yes! They had several types, some made in very low numbers - same as many Irish railways before the mass standardisation of the GSR & CIE.

To add to @jhb171achill's comment - I understand that the LSWR "Road Van" as sold by Kernow is a good approximation of a BCDR brake van. See: https://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/p/43665/SB003G-LSWR-10-Ton-Goods-Brake-Van-number-S54466 Patrick Davey got the Smallbrook kit of one and altered it. @Patrick Davey - please advise? Thanks

One of the best chasing trips I’ve done in a long time if not ever, great day out.

Even if the BCDR had been open when any of these wagons were conceived, from photos I've seen, there appears to have been little to nothing in the way of goods traffic from outside the system. My guess is that the vast, vast majority of goods traffic was belfast to / from rural stations on the system. Thus, few NCC or GNR wagons, let alone anythiong from further south. For an accurate representation of the BCDR, scratchbuilt goods stock would really be needed (or kits???)

Updates to the March and April galleries tonight. The March 2025 gallery comes to a close with images from: Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd March 2025: Pictures from a weekend in Dublin. Monday 24th March 2025: An early morning trip to Cork to head to the airport for a flight to London Heathrow. Click https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2025-Photos/March-2025/i-vPgxMFX to view all the images. The April 2025 gallery opens on April's Fools day with some pretty interesting events! 083 brought a six car transfer of 2700 Class vehicles from Cork to Inchicore Works for scrapping. 071 Class loco 083 brought vehicles 2717 + 2718 + 2713 + 2714 +2710 + 2709 on their final rail journey. Meanwhile, retro liveried 220, after its stint on freight work after re-entering service was released to passenger work, being allocated to the work Cork MK4 services from the 1100 Heuston - Cork onwards, later working the 1425 return and 1800 back to Cork. All in all, an interesting day and the photos can be viewed at https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2025-Photos/April-2025/i-QSjDCbh

A miniature modelling masterpiece -well done.

Colin Alas, the BCDR was history before they were built! Leslie

HI Leslie, I do like these wagons, but do you know if they would have been seen on the Belfast and County Down Railway? Colin

Thanks Wrenniere

Those will go very nicely with the IRM 'H' vans, and hopefully they'll sell well for you. The lettering and finish is excellent.

Some information on the G class at Tralee from Andrew Waldron, after I asked a related question on the Industrial Railway Society group. With relevance to John Langford's photos on Fenit Pier as reproduced in @jhb171achill's North Kerry book: A ship load of timber was due that day for McGowan's merchants in Tralee, loaded into open wagons and taken over the branch to Tralee by a G class Dtz shunter. McGowan hired the second Tralee Dtz, the one in reserve to shunt the wagons at his site, while the first Dtz went back to Fenit, for the second load. The last shipping order was the one after this consignment in 1969, then the curtain came down. I hadn't realised that Tralee had more than one G allocated, so I asked more about that, and Andrew responded: G Class Dtz locos, allocated to Tralee in the period 1965 to 1970 were G 611, G 613, G 614 and G 617. McGowan hired 617 in 1967, again in 1968, he hired 613 in 1969. I will dig some photos out and send to you off group. I'd already got my eyes on G611 after I found photos of that at Castleisland. Given that we also have photos of G602 and G616 at Fenit (outside the time period mentioned by Andrew) it seems that the majority of the Gs would have visited Fenit at one time or another. I'm beginning to wonder if a G class chassis etch would be worth doing to modern standards, and maybe a G601 cab to fit the Worsley Works model?

Right, about those big parcels, which I showed elsewhere on this forum .... This is what was inside: which, in case it looks familiar - IT SHOULD! It's a repeat of my very first wagon (2008 vintage, on left) with an early repeat (No. 2229 on right). For newcomers, it's one of 134 vans built by the GNR at Dundalk (1954 - 56) for bagged cement traffic from the factory by the river at Drogheda (hence the "Return to ...." which was removed later when they reverted to normal van status. If you want to have as in early CIE days (the whole class went to CIE on the dissolution of the GNR), just slosh a bit of grey paint over the "GN" (which is what the new owners did) and apply a Flying Snail - I'll even give you a pair! Also, for those modelling later Irish railway history: A further run of my ex GNR(I) Bagged Cement Van as it ran in its final years when they were used as simple "Vans". Seen all over the place, so, I hope useful to some of you? £19 or €23 each The Sterling price includes postage to UK addresses.

Thanks I look forward to showing it to you in person on Saturday!

A masterpiece, indeed. Top job!

That is an absolute masterpiece.

I've been gradually working on the weathering on E410. It's so easy to overdo it and I fear I have ended up with something a bit more grubby than I was aiming for. It's not as bad as some of the prototypes though! It has moved on a bit since I took these photos, I have taken some of the weathering off and added more in different shades and places. I can't quite settle on the right look. A black one would have been much easier! The green on the transfers looks too bright in this lighting, that may tone down with some weathering, but it looks better in sunlight. Tomorrow I hope to fit the cab window glazing, then reassemble. That's about as much as I can do before the loco's trip to Cork and Fenit at the weekend. I think it looks a bit better now than in the photos above. If the weather stays sunny tomorrow I'll take the photo plank outside for some pictures. In due course I may revisit and refine the weathering. I haven't got a driver figure yet but I will need one. I also think there's some fine-tuning needed on the DCC motor control as the loco seems to almost come to a stop and then lurch forward a little. But it feels like I'm very nearly there. The instructions are almost complete too. Once I've finished them off I'll add them to this thread and then you can see what you're letting yourself in for if anyone wants to build one for themselves. I still plan to build a second loco in black livery, and I have the parts to do so. But I have an embarassingly large queue of other things to make...

Perhaps Stuart can instead look at the Industrial angle; some of the Irish broad gauge industrials had near-identical counterparts on the big island. But first, get that C class rolling! Perfect for north and south, plus layouts based in Manchester docks or central Leicester!

Aaarrgghhhhh! The Works of the Devil - or at least his associates - money-grabbing Victorian capitalists - aka Thieves and Murderers......... I take hope from the fact that Stuart was on a "Standard Gauge" coach when photographed. Good luck, young man.

Oooh Yes please...... There's plenty to have a go at. And OOn3 is true scale ...........

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It would have rolled over into the bog and sunk without trace!