Westcorkrailway

Low morale has completely halted modelling on 00 scale due to parts I that came all the way from New Zealand being thrown out by my family by accident. not all “modelling” is at a temporary standstill Been restoring this bardic lamp which was given to me by the legend Sean Browne, curator of the excellent Castlerea Railway Museum as it was in a poor state due to battery corrosion Bulb and mechanism hasn’t been affected (Still works when i hooked it up to the mains!) and I’m going to solder a battery tray onto the wires My question is, with 3D batteries. Would it be worth my while getting an LED bulb for it even when I connected it to the phone charger the lamp seemed very dim. Any advice on this?

Josh. They have put in new sidings for the new stuff, and scrapped/sold some other bits in preparation for this

Say it quietly I was told you can get 10 pints for the price of 9

Damn, I was going to steal them. The evil ITG fooled my plan again Indeed the ITG’s locos are holding up well enough considering what they have been subjected too. 124 is very good while 190, A3r and 152 are in solid condition. All of them would need a big restoration yes, but far from unrestorable. (Aside from 152 which was always meant to be the spares dump) The rest of the stock is not ITG owned and therefore is not moving. They are in much poorer condition. The EX-HST mark 3 could probobly be staticky restored if the right buyer came along, though in all honesty. I don’t think anyone likes the mark 3s that much . Just moving it at this stage would be an incredibly costly venture, all this for a coach that can’t even run!

I’ll be heading down on Sunday with a Munster team in the car. Looking forward to seeing ye there

Cork model swap meet will almost certainly be back for the first Sunday in December, we haven’t made any public announcement about it though.

20! Thank you very much

I subscribe to this when making my models, problem is how impossible it is to pull off! RTR manufacturers will naturally have slightly different shades. Look at A46 vs the hattons genesis. Only a slight difference but the same livery. I think it would be worth IRM’s or any other manufacturers time selling the paint that could In theory match its stock if you use primer, even rattle cans of it. Though of course this might not be feasible also, one must consider there was a bit on inconsistency in reality too. Whole can of worms

Worse still. If you didn’t grow up with these things and are used to seeing the photos it can be jarring to see what the actual colour is. Multiple shades lighter or darker then your own head cannon

Well the wagon itself was a sort of portabable water tank. Courtmacsherry didn’t have a water tower, hence it was down there for so many years. they probobly had it on the lifting train from bantry purley for capacity reasons. im sure fenit had a water tower though, and not too much steam got down there post 1961 (?) So it does seem a bit odd that it ended up other

To have a station at Kent, you probobly wouldn’t have room for a tunnel and a ramp. There has been considerations for some time to move the port out of there anyway, which is fair as the whole area is being re developed in the next decade or so like Dublins Docklands was. And there is a quay at tivoli and Ringaskiddy is getting the new motorway. airport branch is a bit harder because you have to considering getting over or under the link road. And then you have to deal with the big hill…..could use the west cork alignment (I’d love that tbh) as then it would serve togher aswell and curve somwhere before the viaduct back towards the airport

Today was a big day for Corks Rail Future with the opening of platform 6 and the launch of the consultancy for Cork Luas I recorded the opening ceremony this morning

Yes please