Westcorkrailway

Many years of headache finally being sorted watching you do this research…. At this stage you could do a documentary with those documentary resources!

I heard from that There was even scale models made up to demonstrate the livery

It was painted into a darker green since!

You must get IRRS membership, then email them with your Flickr account and IRRS member number. There Flickr account will then follow your Flickr account giving you access

Oh yeah, it was a bogey. I went on a quest after wondering this before

Yes they would have been a bogey. Would have been a very long wheelbase otherwise

https://flic.kr/p/2s9W4TG ex works lines green mogul https://flic.kr/p/2s9QDDo some great views of some old Southern 4-4-0s https://flic.kr/p/2s9WrCQ Bandon tank a long way from home

I wrote that history, my mistake

And we thought we had it bad with those crap cast iron signs for the Belmullet and kilbritain railway….jaysus

Nice photo on the accurascale Facebook page of 3 B1A’s.

Would these be the same? Colm creedon has photos of them on the Newmarket branch, also has photos of them in use at Albert quay, where they worked some branchline on trials

No! Would have been handy if the CIA saw CIE as of great military interest, perhaps the KGB have a better Photo, I’ll ask uncle Vlad… Full interactive map is here….sublime the size of Dublin then. Most terminus are under cloud cover besides harcourt street https://www.spacefromspace.com/declassified-satellite-images/dublin-ireland-19660219-dzb00402500060h003001/

CIA satalite photo of Inchicore in 1966

I’d buy those models too, in silver and green, fore the C class got good and before the AECs became miserable

Infairness, there are people on here who traveled in AEC/C class push pulls in the early 1980s which must have been equal or (probobly) worse the any 142!

Some very cursed textured boxes in Tomodatchi life

They will be kept in Connolly shed and will be stripped of parts as necessary to keep 134, 141 and 175 going

https://youtu.be/kln4LLRLjcY?is=-ei1-kLhQ_puwPu_ footage I attempted to capture of the movement. Very strange to get up close and personal with locos in that condition in Connolly! Plus a small sample of photos I took

I couldn’t keep up with you JB, I had to go home at 12

Strange one on the enterprise today

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The spare non push pull 201s are used like this due to long wait times for EMD parts 2609 was also used like this until it was recently taken away from Cork. My understanding is that in inchicore it was also stripped of anything that could be used and then given to the scrap man

https://flic.kr/p/2pwdkLN 90 in inchicore, must have been there since around the time the west cork closed https://flic.kr/p/2qUUb7w 90 on the way to Fermoy on st Patrick’s day 1962! 800 in Thurles June 1961 https://flic.kr/p/2pry8aH In Adelaide in September 1961 https://flic.kr/p/2qUTqag 801 in June 1961 https://flic.kr/p/2psSqf4 301 in September 1961 https://flic.kr/p/2qUML9k

90 was saved by a lobby of IRRS members at the time. It was small, very old, and wasn’t worth as much in terms of scrap value! The IRRS of course also managed to convince CIE to do a half baked overhaul of 90 which allowed to work for 6 months. if I was to guess this letter dated from mid 1961. As around that time the 1961 all Ireland tour had used a handful of these locos. And by November 1961 - 90 was refurbished at inchicore

An interesting one posted by Ed O’Neill on Facebook. Shows 90 and 800 as “sanctioned for scrap” !