Westcorkrailway

I agree…..plenty of 071s, plenty of railway companies ~072 midland and great western ~073 Great northern ~074 Sligo Leitrim and northern counties ~075 Dublin and south eastern ~076 Cork bandon and south coast ~077 county Donegal joint committee ~078 Cavan and Leitrim ~079 Dundalk, newery and Grenore ~080 Waterford and tramore ~081 West Clare ~082 hill of howth ~083 Listowel and ballybunion ~084 Cork, Blackrock and passage ~085 Cork and muskerry ~086 londonderry and lough swilly ~087 Tralee and single ~088 Dublin and Kingstown no idea if what I just put down is even correct

And a few of if the standout locomotives 071, or it’s new name Great Southern and Western with the broken wheel back! The standout for me, 134 THE RETURN OF THE MIGHTY HALFWAY RUSTON 141 and my first ever encounter with No.85….crisp as ever Presumably that’s the kit SSM make

7mm layout at inchore….full of CB&SCR locos…..and that was just the entrance Fran are you sure the bandon tank 7mm isint on the way? Paddy murphy’s stand

Teaser for who ever is up today I’m there 2:30-4

some more viewing material pre-open day the 07:00 cork train is packed as we speak

Great! ill buy that grey 071. Looks a bit bigger then the A class locos….must be 7mm….

getting this topic back on track, I have just received no.475. It was the one of if not thee last ones left been sitting on this locomotive for a year now and considering there won’t be any F6, Bandon’s, J26, st.molaga, argadeen or Baldwin tank engines being made anytime soon in RTR, might as well get it. I remember first learning of this locos existence and being confused. I think it’s only duties was branchline work and maybe it worked cork-clonakikty a few times Despite the GSR grey being plain as per prototype. The brass peices are beautifully done. The loco weighs a lot more then the A class. The locomotive Dosnt re-invent the wheel with its performance the loco also dosnt like going round corners with some screw in the connecting rods being to tight or something. I might try and look at this later

I’m tempted myself to do an SSM J26 kit, would J72 chassis really fit underneath the kit build?

TMD/SSM completed E class/J26 00 gauge with no W&T style extended coal bunker. Preferably in GSR grey or a black livery.

Perhaps “Rails to Northport” and “Rails to Dugort” is in order

Just there the Irish railway record society has put Joe st ledger footage of 184 in that livery running on Inchicore open day 1970 for anyone interested

Such an interesting preservation history! Too bad there is a good chance she won’t return to service even in my lifetime.

My favourite of 184s “fictional” liveries is seen here with the “lined CIE green”

Which would be the more common or popular tender type on the rebuilt J15?

I think anyone modelling that period can justify a belfaire J15 i wonder what the story with the tender is going to be. Surely they won’t use 186 current tender as I don’t think that’s an authentic J15 tender but rather a 400 or 500 class tender or something like that hence making 186 impossible unless a completely new tooling for a different tender was made? I could be wrong and that could be a j15 tender

From what I have heard, there is a high chance it could be a J15, but the rebuilt version

I think there was a DWWR loco sold the the CMDR even in the early days before grouping GSR grouping, never mind after it…. if you see a young fella walking around the premier rose cap in hand, don’t ask

Perhaps the lough class are a very pheasable locomotive with UTA and a small bit of RPSI service to help boost sales of an SLNC locomotive the only reason the low demand CBSC loco was produced was that certain peices were identical to certain pieces of an LSWR saddle tank. Perhaps 461 could fill out DSER NCC U2? BCDR Baltic or Atlantic tanks?

Does Lough Erne have a 00 gauge kit available? i know it’s widely available Already but I’m slightly holding out on a MGWR J26 or an F6 2-4-2

Mine is still in the post, it seem the second I announced I would be interested in one, the all sold out! what you have there is one of the last 1st hand J24 models ever sold I reckon it’s not too far out of anyones 2ft rule to say these survived until 1960 with the GSR choosing to stick with them rather then giving up on them imedeatly For those who are sorry to miss out on the cute Irish saddle tank, as many are when it comes to these locos (I see many who’d love to have a j-15 or Ug class) I might as well say it here, but the chaps at 00 works have assured me that…..another Irish locomotive is on the way from 00 works! It hasn’t been announced just yet what they plan to make, Hopefully it isn’t another CB&SCR locomotive otherwise I will literally have too go in debt

I have let Joe know that Leslie is still very much in operation.

As said above Recently I was told that A30 was actually one of the few A class locomotives to venture onto the west cork making A30 in silver the first West Cork locomotive ever produced by IRM….or MM for that matter In anticipation of a certain little steam engine arriving ice set up the ring for running the little loco in. Im running 479 with the fictional coaches (Ex-LNER) , 121 with CIE “laminate” (br mk1 respray) coaches and silverfox C212 with Milipeade Bulleid wagons, resprayed Oxford LNER cattle wagons and JM design breakvan. I’m still in the stages of planning a layout although this will undoubtably be crossbarry/ Kinsale junction with a bit of artistic licence (with it being set in 1962, the kinsale branch being open and perhaps even the quarry branch being open). This will likely include 3D printed buildings, platforms ect. With the fictional coaches being the main kinsale branch coaches along with 479 being the only rebuilt locomotive from the collection of CB&SCR Dubs and Neilson/Breyer peakock 4-4-2T locomotives with perhaps more accurate coaches and better suited rolling stock to replace it when they become available. FullSizeRender.mov

It is Blackrock. This would have been just under 30 years after closure I have a photo of Ballymartle which taken a similar time after it’s closure and it looks much the same Of course this is now part of the passage greenway and could become part of the “Cork Luas”

“That would be an Ecumenical matter”

How about the brown coloured ones, I saw a few of them in my locality?