Westcorkrailway

I think it’s no problem

What a rotten coach…must be scrapped now Has a pair of reading glasses been purchased since?!

A debate that occurs doe at the cork branch often is should money have been put into the 400 and 500 classes instead of building the 800s

New smoke box door and get ride of the outside cylinders… presumably a model of that has not been made cause if it was… The dark green hattons coaches would be almost perfect I would say a 101 too. They worked till the end of steam in Ireland….and beyond

At the very least the cab would need to be completely replaced on an English loco!

you also had these ones which were class if you could get them

I don’t think so? Didn’t a Jeep do the enterprise at one about 10 years later then this or am I remembering it wrong

Aye you could convert a 2600 from something english (hell a 2700 exists RTR from Bachmann) but an ICR is unlike anything in the UK as far as I can see, it would be very hard to scratchbuild. plus they have unlimited route abalibility. I think only places like ballina, and maybe the ballybrophy line have have not had a 22k yet. Middleton and cobh lines have got 1 or 2 on railtours. these are very much the face of Irish rail outside the cork and northern mainline for the most part (and even then ICR’s can be found on them) I love the 2600, the best of the 2nd generation of DMU’s. But there not really as well travelled. And in 2022 they barley leave cork and never leave Munster. actually a good article on them here recently. I love the new livery but the as deleived orange with points logo is probobly the nicest https://www.tailtetours.com/post/the-2600-class-the-railcars-that-keep-on-going

Aah I can see it now“The Irish railway modeller” railtour. An ICR journey from Dublin to killarney….then the premiere take place at the great southern hotel. I’ll pack my coat

Convincing me to leave my native cork to go to these model shows….hopefully I won’t end up buying them !

It’s it’s dark or any shadow. It’s the same colour as it was before the repaint….but put any bit of light there and its back to the purple. however it has not been out of the paint shops that long (the door handles have not been painted yet for instance) so it’s possibly going to cure as some above have suggested

Question. Will there be a prolonged stop at Tipperary? Or just 1 minute or something along those lines

Honestly after being around it in person for 3 days I have gotten used to how it looks. I think it will possibly get better as time goes on

Back on the sperry talk. It looks as though the sperry will stick to its original timtable today with extended stops at Limerick JCT, Thurlus and ballybrophy

If your counting the DCDR sugar puffs. The 4 preserved EX-CSE Ruston 88DS should count too There WAS 2 preserved hunslet locos

There is an awful lot of Ruston 88DS locos still around. I count 4 141s

It’s all up in the air now cause the sperry never made it to mallow today! It’s still in cork

Infairness it’s not everyday you see a 1950s coach working mainline duty. That’s like a 6 wheeler from the 1880s work In 1960s The only loco hauled trains coming down to Middleton and cobh now are the track trains, hobs and maybe a railtour if passing loops are installed/ multiple engines like the sperry All those trains will be VERY occasional

Due to a lack of tracks. The sperry can’t continue to youghal so for now 085 will pick it up from here

While gricing this morning I had the news confirmed that this is the last Ever Sperry train. After it’s trip around the commuter lines in cork, it will head north to mallow for the night before completing its final ever journey from mallow to portlaoise. farewell the sperry road! 221 takes the sperry back to cork 085 heading back to cork light

It’s easier to see here but there is a 2nd pinstripe too. Although the livery is so shiny now it just looks like a reflection

Midleton and cobh tommorow and I think back up to mallow then (I think). But its in cork parked there all night until sometime tommorow No just the GSV. As to why it’s in this colour is bit of a mystery.

Yea it’s now pink purple with not one….but two YELLA lines on the side its due in cork today and tommorow so I must catch a glimpse of it before the sperry goes

The macroom bypass is going to make that border a bit softer If your going to cork model shows….however I suspect when Kerry play in pairc ui chaoimh….that’s when Cork Coco will do roadworks on it