Westcorkrailway

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

Rmweb claims that could be a 36 month wait….winter of 23 is the new release date….these Rustons were announced January 5th 2021….

I was so tempted to pick one of those up to make my GSRPS at halfway set… seriously what’s up with those

My silverfox railcars were 13 months can we get any higher ? Perhaps buy the 4 pack plus a 5th coach for “experiments” so if you ruin it, you have the complete coaches to sell on? Unless you reckon there is no risk on damaging anything just seen that the steps are screwed into place instead of glued on. Fantastic, I hope that’s the case with these ones as they'd be Miles more solid

I reckon that 4 pack will be worth silly money after a few years. A46 has over taken A39R as the most in demand A class and this is the best rolling stock for it

I am fairly sure no such transfers for the green version exist. Not sure how easy it would be to make them either. Certainly a more basic version of this is very achievable

But perhaps it comes in, in two hours Perhaps it breaks down on the way "If it does," says the guard, "be the powers We're here for the rest of the day!" (or 2023/4)

I once found a rattle can that was pretty Damn near GSR grey (according to the 00 works gospel) I have to find out what it was…as I’ve since lost all my rattle cans to a spring clean

Unfortunatly that’s the full drawing. You’ll have to guesstimate

GSR 670 Class 0-6-2T drawings via @KMCE

Really it’s a case of “can it fit” the N2 looks like it’s more pronounced in height then 673….and that space could be used by the manufacture for essential parts

So with them on, you reckon radius 2 would be too much for them to cope with? All my track is radius 3 so I’ll survive

I’m not sure if the loco itself is similar to anything…I wonder could the wheel arrangement be changed for something like 461.

So I take it they’ll be in the ”detail bag” for self application. That’s definitely a plus.

Something these coaches are slightly missing for that extra bit of irishness is the steps that most of these coaches had. Would it be worth making 3D prints of these and attaching them onto the sides if necessary or were lots of these coaches lacking steps

In west cork days. To strengthen AEC railcar capacity instead of adding an intermediate. One or possibly 2 of 6 wheel coaches were attached to the end of the set adding yet another valid yet unusual use for the 6 wheel coaches in Ireland. Albert Quay was full of wrecks from just about anywhere at this stage, they were used on the clon junction branch before being replaced in deisal days with bogey coaches of some kind. The Baltimore branch was still regularly using these types of coaches up until the very end it seems. I don’t thing the Courtmac branch used them if at all that line was more suited to the CB&SCR bogey coaches though I’m open to correction and as pointed out by darragh Connolly, There was a 4 wheel coach at this time…though just a single one 201A, an EX DN&GR/CB&SCR coach. Survived into CIE days as a departmental vehicle. Considering the fact this is the only one I know of to get a tiny snail on the door….all 6 wheelers is the only job

They’ll look good with the infamous Tailte tours Bachmann/Murphy’s K class. The Black and Tan 6 wheeler can be seen below along with plenty of other strange scenes in a “transitional” era with a 141 hauling an entirely CIE green rake of coaches.

Something tells me that the lovely CIE green livery is going to grow on people…..and the Silver A’s along with A42, A46 ect. Will start to apericiate in value. not to mention, CIE green coaches have to be on others agenda at this stage. some showcase of the prototype in use

Certainly did, mostly for excursion work I think.

I had my wallet in hand ready to spent €260 anyways! I hope these will arrive on time as I think the last batch are delayed a good bit