Westcorkrailway

I Have sent you a PM myself and @Nilesmade a while back. Shows not all (some have duplicated/not counted for) but show a good chunk of railtours.

CACR consultancy was interesting. What the engineers said was the consultancy essentially is that there only allowed to think for themselves. Things like additional capacity for passenger/Freight, the funny Cobh platform ect, is that they cannot Risk a CPO going under scrutiny for being “not necessary” essentially, the logic is that an expense has to justify itself immediately. there is also some funny ideas about goods for instance (the awnser I got was that they can run in the middle of the night!)

The rattle cans will be handy….

drum railcar in CIE green looks like it was painted before withdrawal these coaches also Might be in the earlier livery, but well worn by 1965

1954, a train of, fairly worn at this stage, 1940s livery coaches Another livery quite far away from home, a GNR coach going down to youghal post GNRB Split

Something similar to this happened during the 1953 IRRS/LRTL Irish narrow gauge railtour

Steady now JB, could you be persuaded to say that more then just West Clare/ Cork stock got that plain unlined green!

Skibbereen 1945 (I.C. Boyd) 1958 Courtmacsherry (Tom Davit - IRRS collection)

GSR red coach (very worn) at ballinamore

https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/monsignor-reid-collection-castlerea-train-station/ GSR coaches in 1947 on IFI player there is also some colour photos of GSR coaches late into CIE era on the C&L system

Found it

Interestingly, the drawing seems to show the wrong type of splashers (like those on 100)

I had a colour picture years ago, appear to have lost it. Will try and find it now…

I have a photo of red buffer beams on a grey livery one somewhere…I think it was 127… id like to believe there is a universe where 121s are delivered in CIE light green. I would think red buffer beams and black beneath that, maybe an eau de nil waistline too… I have run out of chat gpt attempts for today trying to make a 141 look ok in CIE 1958 green…not sure how it managed to come out as deformed as that

Basically it’s going to take so much effort to do it right, I may as well learn how to photoshop How about this for alternate history (yes it’s got handrails and the livery wouldn’t have looked like this) but it gives an idea…

The MGWR had 3 2-2-2 ST’s didn’t they? The 4th member of this class of 3 being preserved in Rio de Janeiro! the Timoleague and Courtmacsherry had “Slaney” which was the first withdrawn of there 3 locomotives did the GNR every try a saddle tank design?

Find it strange that more saddle tanks never came here. They weren’t unknown, (J24s, Sambo, DNGR tanks). Considering the amount of slow goods traffic and shunting that went on here. They do tend to be easier to maintain and bodge

I’m not in a position to speak in detail, but there is more steam planned this year for sure

I noticed these posted on Flickr too?

Looking at how it fits over 92s boiler perfectly, and that it’s designed so that all the necessary linkages are exposed lends me to beleive it was actually custom made for the J30

it took like 5 prompts to chat gpt to get it to that point…..I’ve run out of my daily limit!

I forgot about that….good times….cause quite a stir back in the day nearly half a decade later, and it’s still not out! anyway I tried chat gpt earlier for livery edits, didn’t go so well! what I want to see most is an 071 in inciting green (like the livery on the mark 4s / 201s) as I saw one like this in an RSA book once the other thing I’d quite like to see is 121 /141 class in 1960s light green with eau de nil waste and

Typo! Departed to cork at 19:15. 4 trains a day all of them through services to Cork. 2 of them mixed, one passenger and one Clayton

Just having a read of a journal I picked up today, included a section from the 1st of July 1929, which includes Clayton railcar only working which arrived at Clonakilty at 19:03 and departed from Cork at 19:15.