Westcorkrailway

something much bigger scale for the workbench 

On many of the Late 1960s Railtours organised by the Munster area, a basic headboard was used. not sure what became of this one, if any one has any idea please feel free to comment. 

but I have decided to make a new one for the fun of it. i have all the necessary peices, though any advice would be nice. i just need to put them together. and while it has absolutly no reason to exist. maybe one day it might see action (well, maximum 25MPH!) it is nice that, even if never used there can be a headboard for photo opertunites and so forth.

I pre ordered a pack of 3 which I intend to mix in with GSWR flats, and/or other types of flats weather they be converted or printed 

I find revolut superb at shoes for accepting payment. Of course you do have to give your number to the other person. But it’s the next best thing when somone does not have cash and PayPal takes too long 

I noticed on the project status page there was these photos on the bullied section. Although I thought I had just missed the announcement!

As you can see, there has been some repairs and modifications to it already. It was used in a model show for many years displaying models. It’s clear that 2/4 sides were replaced with some sort of ply wood. The result is a lot of warped and desroyed wood. It might be of use as a frame using the base and the front (would need new glass) 

3 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Pictures would help…..

In Dublin, will get on top of it when I return to CBCSR territory!

If anyone was any good at woodwork. I have a poster board from Albert quay which I intended to make into a model display as absolve. But all 4 sides were knackered, only the front and back were salvageable. The choice is to either cut up the 4 sides and turn it into a picture frame, or fix it up properly. Any advice would be nice

8209 was also on one of the enteprise 

A cheaper version of the Lego mode stand. Sure you loose the LED’s and some space. But a bit better for putting on your desk as it isint top heavy….and it’s priced at 20 quid in smyths

Twitter is pretty good although I can admit for railways, Facebook is the only show in that own 

2 hours ago, Georgeconna said:

Just a though!!

Doubt anyone from Cork will be going, I used to drive to Connolly and then train up, enjoyable day but its too expensive now and tiring.

I have managed to limit myself to one pilgrimidge to Northern Ireland per year so far….

starting the day at 5AM and ending it at 12AM just for a few hours in d’North is an expensive and mentally draining excercise….and before you ask some of work the weekeends….so hotel is off the cards too, unless it’s in Dublin and that’s

11 hours ago, LNERW1 said:

See title. There is a huge following for the children's TV show "Thomas and Friends". I am one of the people who make up that following. This is an area created for Irish Thomas fans (and they do exist) to share news directly related to the show and any Irish links it may have.

A person on Facebook said (and when your only source is Facebook you know your in Trouble) said that one of Audrey’s stories was directly inspired by one incident on the Cork and Macroom Railway. The incident in question happened in 1952. The post was accompanied with the following article. I, naturally, have never followed this up with any further research….So take with a pinch of salt! 
 

if this is true, then making up a train of some cattle wagons and a GSWR F6 tank engine shouldn’t be to hard to recreate. 

MINOR ANNOUNCMENT: 

Thanks to Kevin Meany we have decided to mark an event that looks like it went overlooked on some peoples radar. 1984 marks 40 years Since a Landmark event in the History of the GSRPS. the arival of 131 To Mallow. As a small way to comemorate this event, We have replacated the key rings produced by the GSRPS in the 1980s and remade them in 2024. 

Anyone who worked on 131 thoughout the years it was in Mallow is entitled to a Free Keyring along with a Certificate of aperication. in order to claim this. just contact Kevin or myself with a PM or to the email adress below. 

The price for these will be 5 euros per Key ring plus postage. the money raised from this will be put towards GSWR No.90, A former GSRPS engine. In Light of the recent horiffic flooding event, we felt it was to help another Legacy of GSRPS live on in any small way. 

These will be availible on the 12th of March. at that point we will start accepting orders for these. however if you are attending any Cork based Railway events such As the upoming IRRS Presentations in Wilton or the "times arrow" Railtour. at least one of us will be there. it might save you on postage! 

in the meantime if you have any questions at all regarding this project i would strongly advise you email:

gswr90fundraiser@gmail.com

Or give myself a PM. 

Regards 
~Cathal Deasy 

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Well, you say that...

 

 

Aye but Joe Lawton’s handy work m was quite iconic on the wagon and added to it…..whereas 90s graffiti…..well if it was done by a well meaning enthusiast trying to cover up the rust with rattle cans….they didn’t do a good job

1 hour ago, Brack said:

Looking at the proposed extensions for the schull and skibbereen and Clogher valley, you weren't the first person to think of that one!

Was that the Clonakilty -schull proposal? 

12 minutes ago, Brendan8056 said:

Hello,

           " New Irish Lines"  is superb as ever. the website does appear to be offline. I would suggest you try emailling Alan O'Rourke.  alanorourke@hotmail.co.uk.

Anyone who is serious about Irish Railway Modelling should consider subscribing, I always find every edition inspiring and interesting. Lots on this forum write articles for it.

I once got contacted from Alan asking to do an article about my Bandon tank. It’s a shame I didn’t see the message until almost 12 months later! 
 

I’ve read some of the articles it’s fantastic stuff 

21 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Boooooooooo!

Booooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Been often told the same thing DJ. In fact I had a chat arguably the man responsible for the change of colour, the head of IE when green Was introduced. Years of the trains being dirty late and unreliable had cast a poor image on the nance CIE which lived in to the livery virtually never changing since the 1960s and 1970s. Besides many still claim that CIE splitting up was possibly the first steps of a possible privatisation attempt like the uk anyway! 
 

think about it. Before the Dart there was the CIE push pull sets. Lovely to look at but anyone who actually traveled on them will tell you yhe 8100s Completley changed the game. And the new branding contributed to its success differintiating from CIE (some would say that stands for Cycling is easier!) and the push pull sets that preceded them 

At least we have the retro livery 071 and 073….and possibly more time come

I suppose 112 counts as retro too

1 hour ago, GSR 800 said:

29k reflooring is currently underway. 

Upgrading is always good, IIRC there are no plans to replace the Mark 4s in the near future. I imagine if they are it will be with DEMUs rather than 22ks. I am unsure about the cream colour scheme, new carpeting for the floors would have refreshed the carriages significantly.

 

If cork is getting 29s then the re-flooring and intirior has to be almost gutted! 
 

Long live the mark 4s. There not perfect but there my favourite! 

49 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

At the risk of opening a can of worms here, and I love opening cans of worms, the only real limits are moral and financial.

3D printing makes it very easy to copy somebody else's work without putting in the graft that they did in the first place.

This is what China has been accused of for decades, stealing technology, reverse-engineering and basically copying others work while skipping the initial set-up cost.

I assume that there is some sort of association for those who make 3D prints, with some kind of guidelines and standards, much like the NMRA etc?

One would assume that A: direct copy’s of others work would be frighteningly obvious and B: 3D printing still has many years to go before it could say, replicate a product even half faithfully would be quite hard. Let’s just say I don’t know if a 3D printed A class is around the corner

17 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

 

Just checked up on a few details; A Clayton was trialled for a short period on the Macroom branch, and (probably the same one) on the Clonakilty branch - so dey did go down to Wisht Caark, boy!

 

Albert quay 1929. 

Any suitible chassis for even a just a 3d print of the shell?

i wonder would something like this be a genuinly viable product. there are plenty of people who need garden sheds and im sure that this shed differenciates it a lot form the competition for the regular consumer making it cool. im not a garden shed enthusiast though!

the simple fact is that rare protototpyes of wagons particularly are now way more viable. for instance somone who makes one Cork bandon and south coast railway grain wagon in times past would have scratch built 1 or 2 just for himself and at most could offer at most drawings to somone interested in one themsleves. the difference is now that making 1 is just as easy as making 100. with locomotives its still very much comparible to a scratchbuilding job if no suitibe chassis is availible. but with wagons all you need is standerd wheels and standerd couplers and some paint handy and your off. there might come a time where the "drawings"section of this website might start containing CAD drawings or even 3D models ready to print if people were generous enough!!!!

2 hours ago, Rob R said:

If anyone fancies a little scratchbuilding project:-

Brandon Baldwin erecting drawing

Apologies if it has been posted on here before (I did look first - honest guv)

 

Rob

You know it’s bad where even I would be reluctant to buy a model of a Cork-Bandon loco

51 minutes ago, Noel said:

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The top pic is like The Inchicore sound barrier