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The definitive West Cork Railway Book is on the way out Chris larkins new book “The Railways of West Cork, birth beauty and betrayal ”covers every aspect from social history to railway history in this new book that’s been in production for years. Those of us living in West Cork have probobly attended one of his lectures of talks about the railway. His memories and Reminiscent’s have been building over the past number of years With almost all the images In this book never published before. Pre-order with the link below https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/west-cork-railways/?fbclid=IwAR0Kl6XAw5Ujo0IRfR4lobnPP18U9CQqZjP7Y1bpCxhKX3YCfmi-x1nxGRo&fs=e&s=cl

through email Albiet it can be very slow…I’m still waiting for an invoice for some stuff I have on order

Talking sh*te, genuinely interesting tangents and accidentally leaking confidential information often take up the bulk of them meetings

Does anyone know what the story is with 10L’s livery in the early 1950s. I seen it on the latest round of digital uploads to the railway records society it appears to be in a jet black colour with number plates picked out in ted. Not something similar to the GSR or CIE liveries at the time….why was this livery put on this loco? https://flic.kr/p/2nBiQUt

For the enterprise so I hear….wierd to see it in ghost white. however the mark 3 they have there currently is in an even better livery

or 2 of some of my favourite threads

Funny this thread has resurfaced. just last night I gave my 475 a run and it packed up I suspect by the sound it’s making now, the worm gear just slides on the wheel. My suspected guess is that the rear wheels are dragging of the side of the chassis…My one on particular has never ran particularly well but I’m eager to get this locomotive running smoothly again. Will probobly have to be sent back to Rodrick though (it’s only had about 4-5 hours running time total and it was lubricated midway through)

Perhaps with the new Hornby Ruston loco, somone else could try Carlow sugar factory

With a bit of careful engineering, one could make an arguably better representation of the prototype of the loco and coaches in terms of livery then that of the ones PM made all those years ago

Nowedays, they have a forklift that can detach from the rear of the truck for unloading and even then, most farmers have a machine that is capable of lifting each pallet off one at a time

Could that cement wagon act as a good conversion for an NIR Spoil wagon..

Your correct, and in fact, that’s what’s making the inflated eBay prices even worse

I think I’ve seen a colour photo of this photo, the van just behind Sambo is in the rare Green as a pose to grey

Went about replacing the chip, easy process aside from trying to track down the 30 seconds of a 49 minute video I needed! First cab off with little force The rest of the locomotive shell off with a bit of prying (beyond terrifying) the DCC chip that once lay within the locomotive….has IE enscribed on it to be fair!

Macha was working the beet between Kent and mallow in the late 50s. This condition probobly matched the work it was doing

I’ll give it a go before I try take the loco apart. Although I’m acutely aware that keeping the decoder in it is just sitting on something others want a lot more then I do..

I stayed there many times in the my youth, never coped that it once had a Railway View. Returned there last year and cycled the whole greenway which starts just around the corner

Might be simple stuff but all new to a DC simpleton like me

Ok I may have To search the box a bit . I suppose if I were to remove the decoder, that chip would go in its place?

In anticipation of the New Fertiliser wagons, and with huge help from @murphaph. I managed to get a 141 locomotive for a more then reasonable price. Now all I need for my complete fert train is fert pack A (hoping somone has em at Camden model show) and a perhaps few pallets and forklifts Now for some help, does anyone know what the chip in the detail is bag is for? Perhaps part of the DCC also present is this old receipt from marks models, which shows you just how inflation on railways has been since 2007 (that being said I didn’t buy this for much more then the price as new )

Ids say it was much harder to source Flying snail transfers in the days of 100 percent brick and morter shopping!

Cork passage and kinsale railway

As I said…i sold the entire rake as it was a commission for someone else….would have been comical to see a 6 coach rake on the West Cork in those days on both sides of the coach the snail is facing the driver unfortunately. However for a first ever rake of coaches there ok! Perhaps I’ll try again with another few coaches and correct my previous errors… (smaller EDN snails that are all facing the correct direction are available) the only locos I have to haul the stock anyway is a bodged together Ex-CB&CSR 479 and GSR 475

I’m looking at them keenly alright. I have enough transfers and paint left for 2 more coaches. Assuming the kits are easy to produce my first every project was those old GWR coaches. Both have snails the wrong way round on one side, my application of the transfer was terrible…but indeed they don’t look to bad they would probobly look better and more suited to the pre-55 green

I was selling those coaches and the buyer wanted a good look at them….no decent table meant it ended up like that…. the lack of “flying snail esque” coaching stock in circulation at the moment means these coaches get much attention! Even if (at least my ones are) pretty basic BR mk 1 conversions