Westcorkrailway

Holy trinity in cork!

I think you owe JHB a pint when you get to Galway……

This would have been the case in the early 1950s but regular steam passenger traffic had finished by 1955/6 so a different arrangement had to have been made from then on

Only seen this now. Sublime work….it looks perfect! (Other then said weathering in due course, cause Christ these got dirty)

I wish we did!!!! lol but IRM are not going to spoil a model just so people can get running numbers they like. C201 in plain silver is a dead on but other then That it’s free real estate. I’d l love C231 in lined green, C212 in unlined green and C202 in silver, but highly unlikely that will come to pass and I’ll have to get onto a decal remover! liveries Silver Green Lined Green Dark lined green (?) Black Black Yellow panel black yellow panel with yellow buffer Black and Tan low band Black and Tan high band supertrain NIR thinking about it. C226 and C231 would probobly be in there liveries, maybe not as preserved but that would make sense

That being said, litterally every single C class ended up on the West Cork system within 2 years. It’s also suspected that a fair amount of the AEC sets did as well. So even by this stage it was a very much chop, change and rotate system

I don’t see any 450 class bud

What are the times?

The 800 class won this poll by 47-16. By no means definitive, but interesting none the less

I don’t remember 141s in service, 121s in service, A class in service, C class in service, 90 in service. And yet i have a model of each of them. The only model i have that would be part of my childhood is the Ruston 88ds!

I would beleive the same. Think when the decorated samples come out, a fair few may be convinced. GB modellers are more used to the bigger steam locos and as far as I can make out, prefer them.

Interesting one spotted on RMweb Just look at it compared to the manor!

The Father, the son and the Holy Spirit !

This is a good point i guess I hadn’t thought of. considering they were originally supposed to be Pacific’s, and much more then just the 3. They certainly would have been nice PR. A photo of one going over the bridge in mallow might have been a good propaganda picture! Though for me. A failed experiment is as interesting as a superb success if not more so. Perhaps that’s why that mid green tailte is calling to me… Here is a small video for the dieselites out there who need to be converted

I don’t think 009 Irish stuff ready to run is worth it yet. Niche within a niche within a niche It is slightly, but to be fair if the Irish market is stagnating/slowing. Then why not try and market towards those across the pond. If anything will tempt them it’s the 800s!

Can’t see to many people being too annoyed about lack of 21mm though. At the end of the day, as has been pointed out the SSM version is still out there.

An excellent presentation in Bru Columbanus tonight by Ciaràn cooney. Included shots of extremely long excursion trains in the 1960s hauled by a Black Sulzer loco. The coaches were in both green and Black and Tan. Mostly made up of GSWR bogey coaches!

Snail or no snail. 800/801 will look perfect besides Black and Tan 141s, sulzers and such. Will look even better next to a silver A class

Probobly just a case of it would look stange in a livery diagram like that if the lining was white!

Exactly. Perhaps somone using Ral colours extracted from the hattons coaches/800 one could repaint appropriate British stock. Thats what I did for years before the genesis coaches and it was perfect im sure I’ve seen photos of CIE full brake 6 wheelers running behind 800

interesting cause in the diagrams of the CIE livery that we have on the website. The lining appears yellow on CIE liveries

The very concept of double headed 800s is bizzare!

Only one man to call @jhb171achill

Oh my god I need to see this Also, since I genuinly don’t know/can’t tell. CIE livery on steam loco. Was the lining white or cream/straw coloured as the IRM diagrams show?

I’ll take GSWR 90 to go with my maebh. 2 extremes of size next to eachother