Westcorkrailway

This could have been a scene in preservation has things gone differently

@Gabhal Luimnigh

Was watching the telivision not paying attention when I heard an American steam whistle. I looked up and saw the recent specsavers add had a murphy models 141!

offical release is coming soon. And it’s not looking too bad…

Well the bandons were simular enough to the BCDR tanks perhaps a bandon in BCDR livery would look right

Hear that @BosKonay that’s 2 bandon tanks sold!!! no I don’t think we can expect a RTR bandon, unless 00 works do one…in the next 20-30 years. Luckily should have the time to do the crime if everything goes well As for the model village.well now you can have a Hornby Ruston 88ds run around a ring with 2 Park Royal’s….a model village train!

Livery isint too bad either. 1 green stripe and detail from being accurate…maybe a few shades lighter here and darker there. I might take the bus down there during the week. I hear from one of there curators they have gotten some locomotive and coaching stock upgrades since

Somhow not cut up herself, surviving to this day! id love to take on 227 and make it a mesuseum but previous experience shows that, like the model village or cultra. Static exhibits need some form of security

It’s already far to expensive to ship them domestically!

They won’t make the year out, DJD. space is needed in Inchicore. So some things have to go. These 141s have a lot of interchangeable parts with 071s and so have been used as a spares dump. Now however those spares are being taken off by IE and the RPSI 171 is in the back of Connolly shed 144 was scraped 162, 147 and 177 I don’t know the fates of, but I think one or two are already scraped

I think the last car was shipped out of cork by rail in 1967

As far as I know there in the market for buying, not selling

When growing up. My nostalgia for railways came from Park Royal’s too. Although probobly not the same as the rest of you guys who actually got to use them in service in 1994, 2 Park Royal’s landed at west cork model village. They were subsequently painted in green and paired with CSE mallow number 1 or 2 Ruston locomotive (I can’t remember) which came from the GSRPS at fenit. It’s sister from halfway Co.cork with a bullied wagon, CIE brake and WLWR coach.

They are the old RPSI heritage set. Last moved in around 2016. 2 of them have been repainted and as seen earlier in this thread, one has been delivered

I’ll get digging

Ironic….

There might be one 141 left but tis fit for scrap (all crucial parts preserved) most of the 2700 class, a few broken darts and a few 201s. there is not to many diesel locomotives to go around at the moment!

I believe the RPSI actually need those, whereas these were surplus to requirements. they do have at least 1 locomotive, CSE Mallow number 1 or 2.

For a school project once I had made a kinsale junction layout using nothing but stuff like this. Twas all binned after which is a shame

Have a good time @Georgeconna if you asked a neutral to go to a look at model trains or go look at a MIG 15 I think I know what they would choose….

Chris Larkin will be at ballincollig house hotel and Upton steam rally for book signings on respective dates to Co-incide with the 2nd run of books hitting the shelves.

I suppose IRMs Park Royal’s would be too small for that laminate!

My eyesite may be wrong but I’d swear there is 3 laminates and only 1 Park Royal’s in that train

Just a reminder. Cork model swap meet will be on in under a months time. General admission is free! it looks like there will be no Camden fort model show this year, due to politics for even opening the fort to visitors never mind the show. so the swap meet may be the premiere railway exhibition in the rebel county There think there is a few tables left so it may be worth sending a PM if interested. Last year most people sold most of what they had on sale, some sold 100 percent! So a tenner for the table is probobly good value I don’t know about the other contestants but I do know Chris Larkin with have a few copies of the new 2nd edition of his book and I will be there selling a few bits of memorabilia, models and books. So if ye have free time Sunday 28th of May, or a few models to get rid of. head down to the oriel house Ballincollig for this years swap meet One of the 3 rooms last year.

some shots from Wexford of Owens N gauge MGWR coaches on “stove R” RTR 6 wheel chassis….if you could paint an Eau de nil line you could have a CIE train made up for very cheap relitivly speaking