Westcorkrailway

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

Basically there was a spare unit which was swaped into sets for a bad one if needed. That’s why you have so many odd numbers. At one stage the CME told me that one 2600 set was made up of two bathroom cars! that’s why 2609 (which happened to be the one switched out at the time) became part of the hybrid or “mongrel” set with the 27 most 2600s still have there gangways, though initially there was fears that all of them would loose them. 3 have surcumbed to this fate! like it would matter anyway since the 2600s have there had CCTV screens fitted. Connecting the Gangways to make up a 4 or 6 car walk through train is impossible

Oh no! anyway

I don’t know for sure but I would presume vinyl. A friend of mine has an “arrow” vinyl at home. So it would make sense for the logos too I guess

A few basic liveries - Arrow as delivered with points (may have worked a dozen times in service) - arrow with plug and socket logo - Commuter - executive commuter - modern IE (old destination scrolls) - modern IE - Modern IE without gangways -2601/02 Retro Livery

Blarney probobly can’t be located where it was originally, so like carrigtwohill station will be from thenopisite side of the bridge there is sufficient space, it’s just a matter of buying the land which would require knocking the bridge down. also for my “plan” to work there would have to be a crossover regardless of having 2 loops

I think there should at the very least be a platform 3 (possibly a loop) at blarney. A cobh to blarney service on the days the cruise ships come in would be an unbelievable asset to cork

Tbh, I’ve play tested on my iPhone 12 and while driving is impossible due to touch controls, walking around is grand

Roblox is PC, Xbox and PlayStation. Probobly will get onto switch 2

Another tease for those more into the older stuff, we of course have to cater to that too (we have darts running to Kildare why not add some heritage!)

A Guiness factory in west cork???? That has to be treason of the highest order!!! north cork Murphy’s, south cork beamish!

When it comes to Bantry, you could delve into alternate history. It never had a dedicated oil train as whiddy island was constructed after it was built. Cattle specials also spring to mind, and beet was loaded here too of course. there was a few mills in the area too, a lot of them powered by good oul waterwheel in the 1960s!

Fair play @leslie10646!

I hung this poster up for old times sake in 2602 (helped that it was double sided as one side was an original CIE poster). The other side advertised a tour from Ennis to Gort when Gort was a closed station. Some passengers came to me, enquiring when this tour was happening. I had to break it to them that it happened on the 6th of June 1987! On this point, there was a very soft announcement on the train, not heard by many but hopefully will come to something (2AM the previous night the motor burned out, fair to say it’s our first real hiccup!) more to follow, but those on board got an exclusive first look.

The tailte set was used the following day on Midleton to Cork trains due to the big match on today (Cork won and took home the silverware!) . Never have I seen so many people come off a 2 car 2600 then I did today on the Cobh trains. Literally thousands between a couple of trains.

You were also on the first passenger train passed platform 6! Random assortment of photos from the day. Cork Cork Mallow Limerick Ennis Galway Shining in Galway Quick one at mallow Back at cork @jhb171achill in his natural habitat. He’s small not far away Some of you may have noticed the Munster area headboard on the rear and this sign on the cab. Honouring Cork Railway legend Seamus Breathnach. He was due to board the tour but passed away on Sunday the 30th of March. He got a symbolic final journey