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    Didn’t steam end around this time 60 years ago. I don’t think there is an exact date but sometime febuary 1963 officially?? 1893 saw the last extension to the cork bandon and south coast railway (discounting the cork city railway) to Baltimore in May 1893. Some 130 years ago!
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    @murphaph perhaps?
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    I only got mine recently. Stuck in post for 3 months!
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    I would think so yes
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    Yes, a baby GM engine. I’m told it will be repainted in the livery it’s still in (supertrain)
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    Right then IRM. When are we getting the C class model Pleasure to have been introduced to @Noel today by @jhb171achill aboard the suir lee knot railtour
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    It was standerd gauge initially before being converted to being double narrow. Not the whole railway was double track though. the Cork & Bandon railway was built to accommodate possible doubling. This is clearest in the earlier underbridges, tunnels and viaduct abutments.
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    That coach behind 557…that departmental livery is new to me
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    If we get enough pints into whoever is representing IRM on the suit lee knot (if somone is going to be there) we might get a hint lol
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    There are slides you have Ernie that lads here haven’t seen in 60 years of going to shows and private collections that are in your flicker. It’s a crucial part in my learning of the railways when I started those years ago
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    Remind us on this thread on the day so I don’t forget to tune in!
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    If flicker had adds at the side of its page and contributed a certain percentage back to its creator we would be a 00 gauge RTR SLNCR tank engine better off I have heard very similar things about Other tour operators. And he’ll even most of the funds for a preserved bandon tank were raised in London rather then Dublin never mind cork!
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    That at molaga model always has me drooling . Stunning peice of work
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    Get the measuring tape and note book out lads!
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    You must have a staff to go through each section I presume you’d need to have an idea of how fast each party is able to travel too
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    Same mock up just painted differently with a few very minor modifications me thinks.
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    Yes very similar to that but applied across a whole coach! You can see they were clearly wanting a dart branding for normal commuter trains Aperently it is January of 1989 this livery saw a month of use!
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    Infairness I have seen photos of a MK3 DVT in inchciore in a livery similar to that one. Still quite different to this 124 livery
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    No JB you were sold by CIE to Africa to build new railways with
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    I didn’t know these actually made it out into the wild! Considering IR tried to do “arrow” railcars to replicate the relitive success as a kind of deisal version of the dart, my understanding is these mark 3 push pull sets would have worked dublin to Drogheada outside of dart range but the green colour would help people accociate it with “commuter” service
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    I wouldn’t say often forgot!
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    Everyday I’m being convinced more and more to go to this fair. I’ve never been that far east…
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    My definition of the West Cork Railway would be a mixture of the Cork, Bandon and south coast, Schull and skibbereen, and macroom lines. As much as the macroom had it’s own identity. (Bassically any line where you began your journey at albert quay to get to the destination) as after 1925 was when the term “west cork railway” was being used to describe the system not the company and by that stage trains for macroom were using Albert quay And yes the west cork railway Co. Is confusing…I didn’t know about “the trameen” there was a name for the fermoy line but I can’t think of it
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    I’ve heard “the Kerry road” being thrown around I think the western rail corridor was actually limerick to ballina/colooney while claremorris to coloony was most the most famous “Burma road”
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    Soon (as long as you don’t mind pedalling instead of an engine) such a thing will exist in Ireland! https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/01/31/staff-being-recruited-for-mayo-velorail-project/
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