Westcorkrailway

Yes, the “Halfway Ruston” as I call it is 100 percent going to maam cross it’s a locomotive very real attachment too being the last stand of the CRRS and being located a couple of KMs from my house….hard to believe it’s been over 10 years since I last saw her move….although it may not be the only shunter west bound!

Christ no not at all! As much as the GSR gave signs to doomed lines like passage and muskerry. As far as I know none went on the kinsale branch however I do know that an unused sign exists that was supposed to go up in waterfall (I believe GSR style) which had CBSCR signs till the end

Loco belongs to Kevin Meany….I wonder if it went for auction how much twould go for On page 233 there is a list of acknowledgements and sources of images? there are about 10 images that have been published before in this book by my reckoning (2 in the books you mention). IMHO I wouldn’t put that as too much of a dent in the 240 images present.

At least one of every nameboard on the West Cork seems to have survived except for Bandon. Who’s enamel sign was last seen on the floor of the goods platform in Albert quay circa:1965, who knows where they ended up….(probobly in Todd Andrews attic ) even the kinsale sign survived into preservation…..Unfortunatly Ballymartle (which never got a GSR sign and was made of wood) rot to peices. There is a possibility that the metal letters though survive in a certain mans railway collection….

Good to hear….according to @Mike 84C his local post office would not take international mail until further notice due to the hack

I had just posted about your work this morning own welcome to the forum I do wonder could the chassis itself could be 3d printed. A flangeless centre wheel and something in the passenger design to give it a bit more weight i have seen these on eBay too. If you got 3 axles, maybe a few brands of these and made “steps” for the coaches it might look very good

hetwynd viaduct (N scale and 00), every building in macmine junction. Corrugated iron peices that are bendable by hairdrier, lever frames ect, 1:76 electricity pole, 20ft containers

There is some nice prints on Facebook and has the email adress 3dprinting3dcork@gmail.com

Aye usuallly when I’m searching for a model to find I end up here…usually just laught at what there selling ….seems to be of Egyptian origin

I think postage was big alright. Double digits or something like that. Plus an post made me pay customs….which I definitely was not expecting

He must be REALLY reluctant to sell… Edit: turns out he is, and I can understand a bit more

Because the bargains are usually sold before they ever touch this thread!

I have gotten a few bargains from www.collectireland.com last month

Fantastic news

In West Cork, you’d sometimes have a race horse put onto a lone cattle wagon and sent away up to X race or to be sold. Would have been VIP cargo!

Tom Ryan’s YouTube channel does have some Gems such as that one It seems like kent station is going to. Become a very popular indeed. Recently saw a plan for an Albert quay layout around 1958 when it was also cork bus station as Parnell place was being constructed

Schull was a station that took fish traffic (although in this case it would be in the wrong gauge for David to model) I’m sure most other narrow gauge railways like the west Clare, T&D and railways of Donegal had fish traffic? The only other place that could have had fish traffic is that place north of ballina….can’t think of the name

Oh boy…

because the chocolate used in it was cheap and the bar was quite expensive for the time most people ended up buying cadburys and a bag of taytos which was better value recently came across an old kitkat bar with Irish rail branding and advertising from 1992

On the CBSC…Courtmacsherry comes to mind, as does kinsale (closed 1931) which both took fish traffic and would be shorter then the pier extension @Andy Cundick has done a 7mm layout of courtmacsherry that’s ABSOLUTLY sublime mother then that. I’m not sure where else on CIE rails was fish traffic big….possibly valentia? Fenit?

Baltimore railway station building is in tact but now derelict. In Use until about 2016 or some time like that. A later CBSC red brick building like creagh and Bandon (high level) the shed you see below was once an engine shed but sold to the yacht club. Original C&B rails ran out of this shed until 2004! I have a photo somehere of Baltimore station building with period posters and of course….fresh and pristine paintwork a Baltimore mixed train would be easy to make up. A unique running on the Baltimore line was timber for the boat building that went on next door (a tradition that continues today) I would add the timber and maybe a hattons 6 wheeler to the train, maybe a few less open wagons and different types of vans and it would be perfect for motive power there is few options. a great mix of GSWR, DSER and WWLR ran the branch before being taken over by C class locomotives entirly. AEC railcars went out there for the Baltimore regatta. The A class were to heavy for the Illen river bridge so never ventured this far south

Baltimore would be an interesting one in regards to this one. A small (enough!) terminus with a small extension out the pier (the most southerly bit of rail in Ireland) for fish traffic. Although it closed in 1961, has potential and I haven’t seen it done

No I don’t have the photo. Although I do wonder if this loco was working out the skibbereen and Baltimore or Clonakilty branch would it have been well photographed or noted at all.

Yellow/orange buffer beams on a C class? Didn’t know about those Recently while surfing through a private collection I came across is a photograph of C234 With a flying snail on the side….all I was told was was told they weren’t there long before they started cracking due to the heat (they were not metal snails like the A class) I couldn’t find another photo of this variation on any other loco nevermind C234….possibly a “republic of glanmire road job” as you call it

For how long did the livery last/is there any photos, particular colour photos on the internet/IRRS flicker? I have been told of a few other wierd livery variations recently yet struggled to find photos of these variations at the moment