Westcorkrailway

I didn’t see this email…glad I seen it now

Superb news

As of half an hour ago. Hattons website as stopped taking orders and the physical store is now closed. how will the pre orders work for the coaches?

Keep in mind the curve may now be even tighter or at least modified to accommodate the greenway

Some positive news for January 2024!

Give it a GSWR saloon smokebox doors and an ivatt boxtop cab, and repaint it grey! anyways 5t I’m reliably told from an early member of the WSVR that the curve to get the line under the road and alongside the greenway is too tight for the likes of 5t and possibly sleive callan too

As my colleague says, Those who say “the Good old days” have never opened a history book. Perhaps this is why in Ireland the 1960s era layout with Black and Tan ect. Is really the earliest mainstream Irish modelling goes. There is the odd 50s thing and some GSR stuff but generally it starts around the 60s saw this yoke in my YouTube recommended. The tender is all wrong but what else would have to be changed….splashers? Nameplates?

Considering there will soon be 7 car sets by themselves. It wouldn’t surprise me

They were supposed to be disposed of…..but as we can see. That did not happen

Mr Paddy murphy himself has spoken about these models aperenrly these are sub standard rejects from the factory. They should not be on the market

Being in Kent station in weather like this is truly commendable Alex duggan caught a gorgeous photo of it passing the steam crane in mallow

Yes I saw the same photo and also thought the same photo (c) dermot Hopkins

I never got anything from the sale after. Probobly will regret it but my model taste was to reeled in to take serious interest in anything. I should have probobly ordered another genesis coach or two though

I have seen 112 hauling Galway coaches where 1 or 2 were in a different orange livery im pretty sure mixing them in was a semi standerd practice. There was an ITG tour that did the same

I would suspect it’s tough luck with this one. Infairness it opens a whole can of worms where 10 years down the line somone could “claim” there box was just opened and the loco never ran. also worth noting that claims like this would cost either time and/or money which Would be better spend elsewhere it’s just part of the process when buying these locos early unfortunately

Even so. I’ve only heard one 121 going across the city railway. And even then they only made it as far as ballyphehane!

Yeah as far as I know it was certainly possible for the grey 121 to do such a thing but it would have been quite a rare occurrence if it did happen. Worth pointing out the above is only relevent to the light green/black n tan coaches. I reckon there was very little to no chance a 121 ever had an excuse to haul around a livery that was almost extinct by the time of there introduction

There was also a Black and Tan liveried one it seems.

Yes. And even so I still think the 22k has probobly more widespread speak then a 29. I personally think a 26 would be the 2nd most viable modern railcar. And even then it would be under the presumption that the modern era will be returned to in the short to medium term

Owen o Neil of cork makes a 3D print of the Tralee gantry crane. The size looks handy for a small layout

I wonder would an MM FB page be easier then running a website when it’s hard to keep updating said website Are the pre orders sold out on the genesis coaches?? these 6 wheelers might have a greater resale value then most shtuff considering a re-run is looking to be near impossible eBay is going to be crazy

we love models for the satisfaction of construction, modification, tinkering. But I bet we all wanted to get models in the first place to run our own trains, put Connolly station dublin or Thomas the tank into our living rooms or owning miniature of the real thing. I grew up in a house falling down. And with far less technology then most of my counterparts my age. It was only when I moved in 2012 that I got access to a computer and other fabulous technologies. with computers come simulators. Once you have a standerd PC. A train simulator will cost you next to nothing compared to a singular model. On the kids game “Roblox” which I played when I was young and just turned on for the sake of nostalgia. There are some superb train simulators. There was even an unfinished one based on the translink network in Northern Ireland. And where layouts come pre-built, pre decorated run for miles where you can go into the cab itself, or be a bystander. nothing beats the tagable object. But you can pick up a PlayStation 4, PS+ and a few of these free simulators cheaper then a singular model!!! That being said, I met enough young model enthusiasts on cork to know that there might still be a future

There appears to have been a few hundred added to the Flickr yesterday

What will become of the hattons toolings?

Awful news. Hattons are by far in a way the best company I have ever dealt with in terms of models. Including the CIE genisis coach affair. Which looks like it will be the first and last venture in the Irish market. I look at years previous where particularly on battles with other companies in the sphere. What a shame.