Westcorkrailway

These have been there since November 2020/21 I believe

Very recently. I believe 2610/13 was the first to loose it’s facial hair….early November me thinks

in the series WW2 “band of brothers” it says a certain failed artist died 11th of April 1945….Now that’s a howler! You should have seen the uproar when this beut was announced to be put up in cork city to “promote shopping” If my sources indicate me correctly, RTE will be delving into railways again very soon, I know for a fact that they’ll read our complaints about the last show as the thread of us bashing it is not to far down the search list when you look it up! Hopefully a lesson will be learned

Guiness liveried 201s

Murphy models is set to release an intercity green new loco 201 in 2 or 3 years so it should be grand. 1950s west cork is more my taste. If you look at the threads “former CB&SC layout and my workbench https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/9855-westcorkrailways-workbench/ You will find ample cheap and easy ways to do west cork in that time My Facebook/Instagram page West Cork Railway Colourised currently may provide some inspiration Another thread on this forum which may be of use is @Mike 84C and @bantree photo realistic layout of bantry

Some British types could be comparable to Irish types….depends what you have

You can never have too many west corkonians….Welcome Darrman

1st of coach’s are perfect, the looks like Gerry’s handy work 2nd set need the roof painted black with a spray can, very easily done. And also more importantly, a white stripe along the top of the coach as per the other 2. It can be painted but I prefer a a long white transfer of the appropriate thickness if one can be found, and you feel you have the skilll to apply one

That makes 2 of us but I try to donate when possible! some drive from cork to maam cross…..I can watch in admiration of the dedication

I sent a few West Cork Railway Books to the UK on belhalf of the author. I sent them on the 22nd and they were there by the 27th or something mad like that. Meanwhile my locomotives of the GSR has been there since early November, and a small CBSC stamp that should be a tiny envelope has not moved since December!

That ship has sailed for another 10-ish years. I could be wrong but for reasons I’ve flad I’m the past, it’s not going to be a run away success greenway…. the Cork and Macroom Direct railway will re-open before the youghal line….which I know is stretching the truth a little bit….but imagine telling somone that in the early 1990s

Some small updates over Christmas. My Christmas coffers were well and truly spent on railway books and railway items first order of buisness was the Fertiliser wagons which have now been converted like so to white. Thanks to DJD for the white ones….and the chocolate! And I hope he has gotten the surplus green ones ….unfortunatly while I was doing this I held them by the upper portion, didn’t realise that the bottom half was a 42 flat for a chassis….which detached while I was moving it, it completely ruined one of the couplings beyond repair, so it had to be remember…..at least it looks realistic! Other then that I received some very generous donations from a fellow West Cork Modeller, Really great stuff. My first CIE van aside from the cattle ones

I don’t see many layouts that come close to this . It was a pleasure to see it at the cork swap meet. (You’ll have to bring it to the next one, see who puts down the most expensive car to swap for it!!!) Any progress on the no.36 model?

There is a photo deep in my camera roll of a 121 driving bonnet first with 20 odd bullieds in tow. I think there was 2 brakevans, almost certainly one of these test trains

I have a full set for one of these, waiting for somone to want to get into modeling for the first time and then sell it to them…..not much use to many of us other then an experiment like yourself (which went extrodinarily well might I add)

Fairly sure that’s all private property but Mike above advertises lineside photography opertunities, so I’d leave it up to them

We had a good discussion about this on one of the zooms hosted by @Niles. Possibly once was going to become a short term fix….. I for one hope 186 is put on the mainline again Back on topic, some 6 year old photos of the halfway lot. I think the loco was repainted before it was moved

The Ramble inn never owned any of that stuff, just holding onto it. And the insurance cost was not worth keeping it on its present site. As for the 6 wheeler, I happen to have gotten one of the only photos of it being moved from halfway to its present site, including one of it passing my house which is deffinetly a wierd one for me living out the middle of nowhere! He wants to keep it private as I hear there has possibly been some looting going on…very much fair enough the brakevan….well at least I think this is the same brakevan has been moved to different location, currently attached to a cement bubble…. But in all honestly I cannot verify is this is the same brakevan no idea where the bus went, something I could ask Alan barry next time I’m out there.

Some of the other locomotives seem to have been in lined green livery but I’m not actually sure about no.3 herself I wonder if this is any bit like em

There going at speed too! the detail demonstrated in this video makes me giddy for the Irish ones….even if there over a year out at least

And with 4 wheels…..

There is an article in the July 61’ IRRS journal, and there is one one one of the “mechanno” magazines them trams were supposed to be far to underpowered for the work they were intended to do

Couldn’t help but notice that somhow a Turkish steak chef had got his hands on a deltic…..

All depends on how successful this first run is….besides there is plenty of running numbers in the pre-55 green already.

I got one of these for Christmas and was wondering what it was…thanks to all in this thread who helped identify it for me