Westcorkrailway

I’m glad it made it. I think this loco was sitting in a siding in fenit until the mid 1990s before being moved here….funnily enough armed with Thomas the tank engine knowledge, when I first got there around 4 years old I knew it was not a steam engine….as I suspect many kids did that’s to oul Thomas the GNR engine The right job would be C202/227 but it would require a bit of cash and hard work which im not sure would be worth in in the eyes of the model village…both those Park Royal’s have since been cosmetically overhauled. it’s a shame I wasn’t old enough to get down to halfway and give the loco one final inspection before it left….although I’m fair certain people have pictures of it being moved….recently I got donated the only photos I know of the coach being moved

This shunter is CSE mallow number 1 or 2 (can’t remember) both Mallow 88DS were preserved. One is in “Clonakikty Model railway village” pretending to be a steam engine! This locomotive however was at “the ramble inn” halfway. Along with many other vintage things in storage. About a 15 minute walk from where I live at the moment it had a short stretch of track which it would on occasion run up and down. There was a bullied beet wagon (as you can see in Inchicore) an EX MGWR/GSWR sleeper 6 wheeler coach (not sure which company as reports are conflicting!) which is still close to home and a CIE 30 ton brakevan (I believe it’s now in moyasta) long ago it was intended to buy Ballinhassig railway station and run trains from ballinhassig to halfway viaduct….this also allowed the future possibility of trains to run through goggins hill tunnel. As yo can see they managed to get a loco and some stock to halfway but when ballinhassig station was sold to somone else that plan fell through and this loco stayed below until around 2018 when it was moved

I see they also have 165 DS. CSE Had 7 or 8 88ds but had 1 165DS in tuam

Yes I believe so, the only difference is the CSE ones are 5’3 and have accommodations for that hence why the Hornby model is pretty good ….if it ever ******* releases

It’s being done up by the apprentice welders in the core….big issue is the breaks…. The CSE liveries we’re a bit all over the shop. So it’s hard to know what it will look like come the end of restoration….tbh I’d hope for some of the more out there thiis thread breifly discuses those liveries (I wish Hornby would hurry up and release this model!)

My first railway memories are of the last of the mark 3s and commuter livery DMU’s too. Hard to believe only last year we saw the end of that livery!

Yes, the “Halfway Ruston” as I call it is 100 percent going to maam cross it’s a locomotive very real attachment too being the last stand of the CRRS and being located a couple of KMs from my house….hard to believe it’s been over 10 years since I last saw her move….although it may not be the only shunter west bound!

Christ no not at all! As much as the GSR gave signs to doomed lines like passage and muskerry. As far as I know none went on the kinsale branch however I do know that an unused sign exists that was supposed to go up in waterfall (I believe GSR style) which had CBSCR signs till the end

Loco belongs to Kevin Meany….I wonder if it went for auction how much twould go for On page 233 there is a list of acknowledgements and sources of images? there are about 10 images that have been published before in this book by my reckoning (2 in the books you mention). IMHO I wouldn’t put that as too much of a dent in the 240 images present.

At least one of every nameboard on the West Cork seems to have survived except for Bandon. Who’s enamel sign was last seen on the floor of the goods platform in Albert quay circa:1965, who knows where they ended up….(probobly in Todd Andrews attic ) even the kinsale sign survived into preservation…..Unfortunatly Ballymartle (which never got a GSR sign and was made of wood) rot to peices. There is a possibility that the metal letters though survive in a certain mans railway collection….

Good to hear….according to @Mike 84C his local post office would not take international mail until further notice due to the hack

I had just posted about your work this morning own welcome to the forum I do wonder could the chassis itself could be 3d printed. A flangeless centre wheel and something in the passenger design to give it a bit more weight i have seen these on eBay too. If you got 3 axles, maybe a few brands of these and made “steps” for the coaches it might look very good

hetwynd viaduct (N scale and 00), every building in macmine junction. Corrugated iron peices that are bendable by hairdrier, lever frames ect, 1:76 electricity pole, 20ft containers

There is some nice prints on Facebook and has the email adress 3dprinting3dcork@gmail.com

Aye usuallly when I’m searching for a model to find I end up here…usually just laught at what there selling ….seems to be of Egyptian origin

I think postage was big alright. Double digits or something like that. Plus an post made me pay customs….which I definitely was not expecting

He must be REALLY reluctant to sell… Edit: turns out he is, and I can understand a bit more

Because the bargains are usually sold before they ever touch this thread!

I have gotten a few bargains from www.collectireland.com last month

Fantastic news

In West Cork, you’d sometimes have a race horse put onto a lone cattle wagon and sent away up to X race or to be sold. Would have been VIP cargo!

Tom Ryan’s YouTube channel does have some Gems such as that one It seems like kent station is going to. Become a very popular indeed. Recently saw a plan for an Albert quay layout around 1958 when it was also cork bus station as Parnell place was being constructed

Schull was a station that took fish traffic (although in this case it would be in the wrong gauge for David to model) I’m sure most other narrow gauge railways like the west Clare, T&D and railways of Donegal had fish traffic? The only other place that could have had fish traffic is that place north of ballina….can’t think of the name

Oh boy…

because the chocolate used in it was cheap and the bar was quite expensive for the time most people ended up buying cadburys and a bag of taytos which was better value recently came across an old kitkat bar with Irish rail branding and advertising from 1992