Westcorkrailway

It’s not very long. I would say about 150 meters maybe? From memory

I think it’s 5’3…..

I think the branch line society was on that fernicular around the time tailte tours was in Kerry. the only railway left in west cork….using GNRI chairs

Have your ridden on the Clonakilty golf club fernicular railway???

can you do the entire IOM network in a day? I haven’t a notion and I would have asked Sean when I had the chance!

I was selling for €30….almost double what Leslie is charging for his new rtr eange will tell u how good value they are

The problem with these areas mentioned. Bandon, skibbereen, Clonakilty, bantry, dunmanway. It’s that it’s very hard to make a line including every one of them without branchlines. Also. It seems this rail review would have easily knocked youghal out but because youghal and west cork have greenway projects currently in development. It’s hard to say weather that played a factor. greenways are the future for the west cork until at least 2050/60 by which stage I will be nearing retirement!

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It might be hattons overestimating how many they were actually gonna get from MM…I have heard they have done that before it’s either that or they were straight up canceled? I could have sworn there were pre production samples at raheeny last October does anyone have a screenshot of the email?

I would pay money to see it!!!

I’ve seen it many times in corks flea markets…at 50 quid I’ve always stayed well away

Do you have Colms creedons book on the topic? They can be quite cheaply picked up and despite the aged print quality are well worth it I know the passage west maritime museum did an exhibition on the subject recently and might be able to point you in the correct direction for drawings ect.

How was the sound aquired in the end? From the Australian locomotive or made from scratch?

From what I can tell, most kinsale stuff has ended up across the pond, naturally with the railways history being intertwined with the British army preseance in the town. Hell even footage on the kinsale branch had survived in someone’s catacombs (last seen 40 years ago!) I did find one website that claimed to have kinsale station photos but unfortunately locked behind a paywall with no kind of preview of any sort your correct in saying the IRRS would be a fantastic resource to have but my sources tell me they are quite busy at the moment in itself, never mind weather it’s open or not! regardless I should have enough material to work away myself regardless of if I find anything new or not

Hello all recently I have been giving the green light to prepare a presentation on the Kinsale Branchline for The national monument I work at for this upcoming heritage week. And while I have a good amount of material to work with at the moment. I suppose this is an excuse to ask if anyone thinks they know or do know a place where more material/photographs on the Branchline closed over 90 years ago

Just…wow

Where did the water tank come from??? Origional?

Yep…. saw a video of it in Capwell. Looks like a write off

I have 2 brand new ones for sale in Upton tbh they are more accurate then lima Hymek shenanigans. Still much room for improvement but there still nice enough

The biggest issue with any of these bandon tank projects is height. Anyone who has tried 3d printing for themselves will note how usually, when using a RTR chassis the loco ends up 1.5 times higher then it needs to be. And while this model is for static use only. It at least beats the BR mark 1 test of coaching.

She is christened 467! 467 is the only bandon tank to have worn green while in west cork (although it was hard to see under the grime) 466 also is said to have worn green but once it was sent to diblin it never came back 463 ~ grey only. 464 ~ grey and black livery 465 ~ Grey 466 ~ Grey and CIE lined green 467 ~ Grey and CIE lined green 468 ~ Grey 469 ~ grey 470 ~ Grey Worth pointing out though some locos like 470 would be unsuitable for marks bandon as it has a very different apperently unrebuilt. Think of the difference between 184 and 186

As much as I’d love to blame deisals for that tours running….464 was not behaving towards the end of the tour! I recently got one of the few remaining tickets from that tour that probably still remain.

Fiver! And the broken wheel one for 15 quid…..that’s why i don’t buy that much from adverts anymore because I often find stuff like that at half the price in someone’s “hoard” over de years

Progress as it concludes tonight The green is not 100 percent correct, though these pictures make it look worse then it is! the question is do these colour snails and numerals look correct? As that’s what’s going on tommorow all things go well