Westcorkrailway

At Macroom. CIE own a yard there that was once part of the extensive terminus of the CMDR. So nice to “Iranrod Eireann” at a station that closed in 1953! thankfully I know for a fact that CIE do care about the history of the site, particularly the old goods shed, the only real remnant of the station

There was an S&S coach in the side of the road out by kilbritain. Belonged to an eccentric inventor fella. A well known enthusiast purchased it when he died and it disintegrated upon trying to remove it from said ditch. There is a S&S van in the village of Drimoleague slowly rotting away The Cavan and Leitrim have a Tralee and dingle coach in there collection. From the outside it looks really good, but I’m told it won’t run again and there new building one with the chassis of a 2nd one they found., using the 1st example as a blueprint! the S&S as it stands now is fairly run over. Being a roadside tramway for much of its route. The road was simply made wider post closure. There are bits where the line left the road, the line here is reasonably intact. The Ballydehob station is private priperty and quite well built on, hollyhill station is preserved but abandoned and schull is in really good condition. In recent times points being found still on the site of the station. I would be very interested in these other 2 bodies. I’ve never heard of them despiting living down here all my life. Had no idea there was coaches being used for workshops! I would be seriously interested in any information on these coach bodies.

There all for spares except one, which is in the back of Connolly shed. Which is being kept to hopefully one day run. Just as likely it will also be used for spares too!

Hi Thomas Unfortunately Cork Model Swap Meet will not be taking place this year. We lost a lot of manpower we had last year! But hopefully next year we can have another one cheers CD

That would be an Eccumenical matter

Explained in there email here summery is that there operating licence was not renewed as the company is still based in the UK, and not the ROI, Brexit has made this a problem and it appears to have just reared its ugly head. Hopefully it will get sorted before the Santa trains.

Just got an Email from the RPSI Eventbrite account: Dear Passengers, We regret to inform you that this Saturday’s upcoming “The Mighty Kingdom” railtour to County Kerry has been cancelled. Unfortunately, when our operating licence came up for renewal with the Commission for Railway Regulation (CRR), they had received legal advice that our current structure was no longer valid to hold a licence in Ireland. The main issue is Brexit related, as our company is registered in the UK and this is now outside the EU. Work has been underway since the moment we found out that we have additional legal and Companies Registration Office documents to obtain in order to renew our licence. Despite our very best efforts and matters outside of our control we have not achieved this in time for this Saturday’s tour. We truly understand the massive disappointment that this news brings you and your fellow participants. We as an organising committee are also very upset at having to cancel this railtour.

Worth pointing out. Because this is a 3D model, anyone can have one. If you would like your own version give me a PM and I can send you the file, or perhaps I can discuss getting one printed and my colour scheme isint the only one used by CIE in the dying days of the lines that used these buildings. (I’m sure JB will tear into me for these “building Liveries) by far the most popular is a very yellowish cream and green. Drimoleague: Ernie's railway archive Clon junction might be a faded version of this. Could as well be its own colour. A few from the IRRS archive https://flic.kr/p/2qEps1V kildare https://flic.kr/p/2qUUb7w mallow https://flic.kr/p/2qEu93u kilfinora https://flic.kr/p/2qEveRu Fermoy https://flic.kr/p/2qEw9Gq Glenmore https://flic.kr/p/2qEu2d7 https://flic.kr/p/2qUUaMy crossbarry you also had red, which I applied to my building seen here at Mallow. https://flic.kr/p/2qEu23h ballyhooley https://flic.kr/p/2qEwbRF wellingtonbridge https://flic.kr/p/2qUTrEW Longford https://flic.kr/p/2pBQNuA Ballinhassig https://flic.kr/p/2qEpnmK Ballinascarthy interesting as the original Red and cream is coming through in Wellingtonbridge and you also had a Blue colour seen the odd time seen here at bandon https://flic.kr/p/2qEu3Po straffan https://flic.kr/p/2qEveHZ athlone amazingly, Bandon’s signal box is a different colour in 1962…. The above photo was taken 10 days before the station closed. Which means it was painted either days before closure or post closure https://flic.kr/p/2qEvehi Timoleague, durrus road And Courtmacsherry had buildings painted black with green highlighting…. https://flic.kr/p/2qEpnfH

Added doors, CIE posters and GSR signage. I’ll probobly call it day after installing some period windows.

I would like to think this was the only wagon like this, done as an experiement to see how it would look, and instead of replanting it, just pushed it out and went onto the next one

I found booterstown to be closer to the school when I came from cork

First coat of paint applied on the CBSC building….the paint job won’t be superb or anything but it might look ok from a bit back. Ref photos are Ernie’s railway archive for Ballinascarthy and Micheal Davies of Ballinhassig

Mixed train at Ballymartle….

IRRS headboard…looks to scale (it looked like that on 90)

Low bar…

I always to to visit when I’m in Dublin. If you look very closely…you can find A Bandon Tank….look behind that rather strange looking man on the telly I have no doubt he at the very least, had, a Bandon tank that’s somehow been lost to time. Considering they did some nice work in the Dublin area. ironically, a Bandon Tank is probobly one of the more available models to get in 0 gauge. A freind of mine has a superb 3D print, rivets and all for 0 gauge. just needs a terrier chassis and some bogeys. There is also the alpha graphix kit for those more brave and skilled.

Test prints of the CBSC building are now underway thanks a freind of mine offering to print it thank goodness. New problem. I purchased a curved point (hornby R8075) for my layout however the curve that was originally there appears to have been much tighter then this. It defiantly seems like it was a curved point that wss there

It’s under better care now, though, I believe it was there so long only because of an ownership dispute. the Ruston, Beet wagon and brakevan of halfway are now in Maam cross. The 6 wheeler went to a secret location

The lamp brackets were here (as illustrated) Wouldn’t be suprised if the modern points logo tail lamps got on these too later on

Aha, that’s what I was thinking of. certainly looks like a pallet van, open to correction

Think I’ve seen at least one body still existing somehere

Small bit of work done over the weekend still have no idea what points were used on the far side of the station so a curve has been implemented temporarily. drawn up some buildings for it in a CAD software No idea if I can even print them but at least it’s a good template

Some small GSR conversions that come to mind you could take a railroad J72 and try and turn it into a GSWR J10 by chopping off the cab and replacing it with an ivatt style one not the greatest detail wise but I have GSWR 90 done using a terrier chassis and a 3D printed shell the GSR had an 0-4-0 peckett on there books, purchased from the allmans whiskey Company in 1930. Don’t think it left cork though! Horny make it and all you’d need for it to be prototypical is buy the works green version, weather it, and slap plates on either side. there is a beautiful RTR J24 model out there from 00 works. but it’s very expensive, no DCC, prone to failure (mine has twice). Also never left cork area as far as I know either A freind of mine and myself are still working on a completely 3D printed Bandon Tank. But thats nowhere near ready for running.