Westcorkrailway

It was standerd gauge initially before being converted to being double narrow. Not the whole railway was double track though. the Cork & Bandon railway was built to accommodate possible doubling. This is clearest in the earlier underbridges, tunnels and viaduct abutments.

That coach behind 557…that departmental livery is new to me

There are slides you have Ernie that lads here haven’t seen in 60 years of going to shows and private collections that are in your flicker. It’s a crucial part in my learning of the railways when I started those years ago

Remind us on this thread on the day so I don’t forget to tune in!

If flicker had adds at the side of its page and contributed a certain percentage back to its creator we would be a 00 gauge RTR SLNCR tank engine better off I have heard very similar things about Other tour operators. And he’ll even most of the funds for a preserved bandon tank were raised in London rather then Dublin never mind cork!

That at molaga model always has me drooling . Stunning peice of work

Get the measuring tape and note book out lads!

You must have a staff to go through each section I presume you’d need to have an idea of how fast each party is able to travel too

Same mock up just painted differently with a few very minor modifications me thinks.

Yes very similar to that but applied across a whole coach! You can see they were clearly wanting a dart branding for normal commuter trains Aperently it is January of 1989 this livery saw a month of use!

Infairness I have seen photos of a MK3 DVT in inchciore in a livery similar to that one. Still quite different to this 124 livery

No JB you were sold by CIE to Africa to build new railways with

I didn’t know these actually made it out into the wild! Considering IR tried to do “arrow” railcars to replicate the relitive success as a kind of deisal version of the dart, my understanding is these mark 3 push pull sets would have worked dublin to Drogheada outside of dart range but the green colour would help people accociate it with “commuter” service

I wouldn’t say often forgot!

Everyday I’m being convinced more and more to go to this fair. I’ve never been that far east…

My definition of the West Cork Railway would be a mixture of the Cork, Bandon and south coast, Schull and skibbereen, and macroom lines. As much as the macroom had it’s own identity. (Bassically any line where you began your journey at albert quay to get to the destination) as after 1925 was when the term “west cork railway” was being used to describe the system not the company and by that stage trains for macroom were using Albert quay And yes the west cork railway Co. Is confusing…I didn’t know about “the trameen” there was a name for the fermoy line but I can’t think of it

I’ve heard “the Kerry road” being thrown around I think the western rail corridor was actually limerick to ballina/colooney while claremorris to coloony was most the most famous “Burma road”

Soon (as long as you don’t mind pedalling instead of an engine) such a thing will exist in Ireland! https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/01/31/staff-being-recruited-for-mayo-velorail-project/

I have heard rumblings that the class leader is earmarked for static preservation, otherwise there bassically all going to be scraped ids say!

Hard to believe that was almost a year ago now!

I have a GSR rulebook , and an appendix to the GSR WTT but not the actual timetable itself. One is a softback green with black writing and the other is green with black writing hardback. So I assumed the WTT was the same until stumbling upon this thread. something to look out for in a book fair or rail event and complete the set! a lot of the GSR stuff on eBay has that same green with black text design on it too, but no working timetables either. I haven’t heard of a Cork and Bandon WTT ever about either. I have a feeling many were binned/burned! There is surviving material from that era. But mostly letters and pamphlets/advertisements from the CBSCR which would not have been stored in Albert quay offices rather things members of the public would have gotten.

And why do you need to know how to drive an EMD loco

A very interesting thread where I unfortunately had not joined yet to partake in. it is on my bucket list among many things to aquire a GSR timetable between 1925-30. Ideally before 1927 when the passing loop in farrangalway was removed. What does of of these look like though? Are they like Early CIE WTT at all?

Regardless of how long ago the thread was. I always find I keep coming back to these threads for Information. A google search of a question the first result will often come up as being answered on here

Although that was outside for a while and in full view of cork trains