Westcorkrailway

Depends on how desperate you are for it. Time is money. But you can definitely get a better deal elsewhere. I might send some interesting exerts from it this evening via PM. See if it’s worth it for you!

In terms of reading material, You’re not going to get much better. Especially that 3rd one. Which is written less like a history and more like a week by week diary of what was happening in the last 10 years of the West Cork. The book is dated. Handrawn diagrams and not great quality photos. But definitely my favourite series of books of all time! if you want them for a good price. Just be patient. “Abe books” usually has them at a decent price. A copy of the 3rd book sold on here in the last year for a tenner! I purchased mint copies at the Donegal meuseum once for peanuts! the first one is the rarest but also there is a free scan of the whole book online here https://durrushistory.com/2012/10/16/colm-creedon-chronicler-of-west-corks-railways/1986-colm-creedon-history-the-cork-bandon-and-south-coast-railway-vol-1-1849-1899/ His Macroom book is also good, but by far the most rare being published in 1960. He was working in a remake of it before he passed away. Colm creedon was a fascinating man. The west cork railway had a magazine run for a few years written and edited by him. It’s my dream to release these 3 books as one book with updated editing, photos and such

Meanwhile yesterday….

What exactly are they supposed to do other than preserve Irish diesel traction?

No….No…. myself and GSWR90 worked on this all night long. Lots of AI and CGI.

I was there. It’s AI, there is no way 124 looked that good.

Shunting did happen very very recently. Just lads playing trains I suspect though.

Funny that 4 88ds types still live on today in Clonakilty, Soon to be maam cross, Belturbet and whitehead. An impressive % saved, the fate of Tuams 165 being rather unfortunate…

88 and 165 0-4-0 types

At home I have this book, which goes into detail on some bonkers railway lines. https://ebay.us/m/zTNN2K

The recent transfer of 2609 from Cork to Inchicore left people like me to record what was left of the last commuter livery 2600, and what will despite its cut short life, will probobly go down as the most interesting class memeber. Funny how this train worked the first train to midleton after re opening and was then stored, never to be used again 3 years later.

Those 3 Blue locos are very broken. Not too long ago there was talks of IE buying the 3 and leasing them back to NIR as you proposed. But once the condition was actually seen the idea was dropped

Excellent photo!

There is still some there yeah, could seem them from the Ex Heuston train as of this evening.

Cork cillian murphy Bandon Graham Norton

This question had once come up for Albert quay. My first thought was Collins but for the reasons above, I ruled it out. Rather annoyingly a lot of these men in the cork are either one side or the other. The answer I ended up settling on was either Mac curtain or Mac Sweeny, the former cork mayors who died during the war of independence.

speaking of cork in 2001….. also considering where I found my fastrack bags. IDs say they had loads spare come the end and they were used for odd jobs

Recently found fastrack plastic parcels (the sort of things you would get clothes deleivered in) which look like they date from the 2010s but are probably from something like the 1990s

And it works….. IMG_0071.mov

https://ebay.us/m/qfUPyB I LIKE A LOT

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!