Westcorkrailway

Fran will be busy with the “reject” stamp…..

IRM is making us cement our eras! tbf say if you exclusivly model CIE-IE of those new announcements only 3-5 should be IE…with room for stuff newer and stuff older (maybe a CB&SCR 4 wheel coach withdrawn during the emergency ) and now NIR modeling is getting a larger base. There is a few people who want/can afford overlapping lots of era’s or every era but that isn’t most people

Don’t mind me doing sacrilegious acts to this brand new fert wagon all I need is another white pack of pallets and I’ll be all good to go

I think so. Now I think I’ve seen photos of 6 wheel coaches but my mind could easily be tricking me. Could have even been an Ex 6 wheeler turned 4 wheeler Went looking on flicker out of curiosity and sooner found a bandon tank pushing a Black and Tan laminate coach with 2nd class written on the doors and a bandon tank shunting a UTA coach before I found anything other then short bogeys in the courtmac section

Something I heard from my sources in East cork is that the laying of the Youghal greenway has caused a TB nightmare due to badgers being displaced. imagine if that happened in a hypothetical Kenmare Greenway…

Some really good books here for very decent prices. I would have gotten more but….unfortunatly I already have 2 copies of Ernie’s CBSC book and 2 copies of pattersons CBSC book! Thanks for the swift communication @iarnrod

I just got my book today after a hoot bit of waiting. I thought perhaps a few pages wouldn’t hurt even though my assignments are due! (I’ll actually review it when I get the chance to read it properly) a little sneak peak of what’s to come for those who have ordered and not yet received. there are about 15 or so pages like this in the book where 2 pages will hold just one photograph! Reminder if your In cork on December 3rd Myself, Chris Larkin and Ray Good will be holding the boom launch during cork model swap meet at 12:00. With book signings of course being part of it. If you are further west there will be a slideshow presentation on November 27th in Gaggin community hall….more dates to come for west corkians as mentioned before.

Fun fact. Every single nameboard on the west cork railway has survived…..except for bandon! Which curiously escaped preservation last time it was seen was at the very very end of Brian bakers film on the subject where 2 of them are lying on the floor of Albert quay platform with rails that had been lifted. As far as I’m concerned they have disappeared since

Now you have me thinking how easy that would be to pull off… Could 3d print or build a bogey with bogey frames. The footstep on a bogey coach would also be difficult to get right however

Dead donkey does not have the same catch as the flying snail does it….

I just sold my Silverfox Railcars. They took an awful lot of work to get working. at least the roof was black form @jhb171achill! (And for myself tbh). All that money has been re-invested in those 6 wheelers though

I’ll give it a go, not sure these are liveries as they are variants GNR blue UTA blue NTA green pre 55 green CIE green CIE green with numbers on doors CIE green with wasp stripes on roof the wazza CIE Black and Tan CIE Black and Tan push pull dvt CIE Black and Tan with the blacked out windows possibly a maroon livery after? I’m not sure when the northern ones went out of use

You could have one in GNR blue, UTA blue, CIE green, UTA green, black and tan and then push pull variant. And then you’d have to make a C class for the push pull variant

the new west cork book has drawings of AEC railcars in the back page somehwere. I’m getting my review copy tommorow might help with a kit if I ever made one, or a 3D print

I have seen a grand total of 7 images of the kinsale Branchline while in use in all my searching. 8 if you add the turning of the first sod which oddly enough in a rare case of early 1960s photography….was photographed! and not many of the photos I’ve found are all that good. There is one panoramic shot of the station area, one that illustrates the cork and bandon livery, one that shows the kinsale crash of 1915 and one showing the turntable (which I seem to have found a large piece of!) and the 2-4-0s that would have been Standard on the line at that point. The rest are pretty garbage. Ballymartle is the holy grail I’m looking for. I have 3 photographs of it 10-30 years post closure but nothing while twas in use….a station that can be seen from my bedroom window I can imagine that in some place there is WCIR stuff somehere, but it takes time to track it down

Good news for @Flying Snail!

Sammy has covered the Irish stuff in his most recent video model railway news (it’s only these and the 3D printing bits I find good content!) He plans on pairing the Black and Tan genesis coach with his 121 as there the same livery… Who’s gonna tell him

Seems the DNGR and CMDR had 4 wheel coaches. Some of these were still seen on sidings in the mid 40s! Yes aperently so, can’t find many photos of it. If it is the coach in Ernie shepards book it does appear to be very long for what JB says these coaches look like

the reason that CPO’s are a little harder to justify is the IFA and the split of land. It’s been 60 years since the closure of most railways and since then the land had been chopped and changed constantly and as a result, If the line were to follow its old direct route it would be chopped into 2 big seperate peices which can be very inconvinient….I’ve seen it with the macroom bypass and it’s the reason my father rejects the west cork lines re-opening as a greenway or railway. They will ruin a fairly straight forward farm where the price given with a CPO can’t really justify the overpass/underpass with all the extra work involved. Also it may de-values the price of the land itself ok so I’ve edited in this to explain my point Red is the farm house/yard green is the land owned blue is the railway/greenway to by purchased by CPO now this guy has had his land split into two. Most of his farm is now not directly connected with his farm yard making movements very difficult Whereas for this guy, the old line would be so out of the way that moving a greenway in would reduce land size but hardly effect logistics Currently off all the bus routes to west cork. The 237 and 226 are double coaches decker. And most single deck coaches are fairly full. Currently a private company west cork connect also run a good few bus at cheaper prices

I’ve noticed that, like we have just had 4 big announcements from IRM 2 big announcements from MM 1 big announcement from hattons JM designs possibly getting 3D printing again virtually every era has had representation in the past month! From GSR to 2022. does The bank account really top up that fast!

Exactly what I would have said. There were 1 or 2 minds willing to wait for fully authentic versions and while it’s a great prospect, the English market can’t even have there own 6 wheelers. If you want fully authentic ones…kits exist I wonder is there a market for undecorated ones for slightly cheaper, so people could paint up in GSR, or indeed any livery

That’s almost entirely depends on how successful this run of coaches is

I think the main issue with the above 850 is the lack of belfaire firebox

They loook alright if your willing to go mad in the livery department I’d recommend contacting the erwitt lodge page in Facebook who made an 850 class