Westcorkrailway

In light of this evenings Irish railway record society’s Munster branch presentation this evening….I already have a question lined up!

It appears my plea for advice on this loco this should put me head of marketing because the couple of things and engines they had left are sold out. Even the 2 left that were being sold pre owned on eBay are gone….. good to see the CB&SCR loco travelling far away as America

I got a p&t one off sean brown in castlerea. He had a mighty collection of them too.

Many of them stabilisers look like that. There are ones around my in ballinhassig that don’t look a day old the insulators that pe-date P&T are very valuable as the ones marked GPO are interchangeable with ones used in the UK and are rare

In relation to age, I think that the demand for loco hauled models won’t completely evaporate. But it will significantly lower as the years go on. I go out of my way often to go on loco hauled trains on the cork-Dublin line as much as possible, even though the windows in the mk 4 sets give me a headache! kit building is still kinda out of reach for me. I have started a bandon tank but can’t finish it, and the finesse on that model isint up to standerd with anything I have already. when I got into Irish modelling years ago. I started with C212. Which you can order at any time you want, no searching fleabay for pre owned overpriced stuff. at the time it was a huge suprise that anything that ran on the West Cork railway was RTR as by that stage, I was only aware of murphy’s products. part of me wishes that silverfox A class locos were consistently 2 or 3 on eBay going for less then €100. Same with the Lima 201s and the MIR kits because they would be respectively great ways to get into this hobby without having a 2nd morgage! coaching stock is a little to expensive for my taste when it comes to silverfox, even back then. However I wouldn’t mind getting a tin van off them as I said earlier another member of the budget RTR family is milipeade on adverts who does very good Irish cement pallet wagons and bulleid open wagons. Also doing a few coach ranges for 30-50 euros in conclusion, knock them all you want. But the demand is clearly there for silverfox or milipeade to make these more barebones models RTR even in 2022

Luckily it’s easy to convert if you have the confidence and talent to make a 21mm layout. Hugely rewarding when pulled off

Can this thread be either moved into a seperate thread, delete the last page or so, or even close the thread for further discussion. Not really much to do with “A Class Hype” anymore

Almost undoubtably Irish freight models.

~They are the only suppliers to do RTR Tim vans. The only alternative being kits or +€100 RTR so obviously out of reach ~I don’t think IRM would produce a loco like the G class. Only 3 1/2 liveries to work from and generally don’t get the attention the bigger yolks do. ~I may pick up an intermediate coach for my railcar set which arived the same week as the A class very important to note that silverfox are very willing to fix any issues you have with the livery. They effectively scratch build a loco for you instead of offering a few locos in select liveries and running numbers indeed I just send them a photo of the loco I want and they copy the photo. Below are the examples I’ve done indeed to this day I’ve only completed half a kit….and I can’t buy the rest of the kit! we as a community cannot accept that IRM will produce every Little gap on peoples layouts. I’ll happily buy from all of our smaller maufacturers covering the smaller aspect (such as 00 works making such an obscure tank engine I’m not sure even kit manufacuturer wouldn’t dare touch!

I personally wouldn’t buy a U/UG but they are the nicest RTR Irish model I’ve ever seen I look forward to any Irish locos that 00 works may produce in the future

Twould be nice if it got under customs radar….I’d get to keep another weeks wages! hard wired Doesn't effect me much as I will almost certainly never convert it to DCC. Neither will the J26/Bandon tank if they ever get finished….

Is that also the case of the U class / J15?

It’s too bad you can’t pay by card, I’m going to have to learn this whole craic of paying via sterling draft. Something a fella my age has never really had to do at least the offered me a discount at 00 works so cheers to them for that

From Tom Halvey on Facebook I find the yellow buffer mean an odd quirk on 203. I also didn’t know the K class were as large as they were!

I have no doubt they would only do one run of these locos, there utterly unique and we’re only made really because the of similarities to UK versions!

There are some still a few of these left in GSR grey. I’ve seen a few floating around…I want to know what people think of them as a CB&SCR man. Of course this loco has always been in my radar. But ther weren’t many of them, and were withdrawn ludicrously early also when you look at how much they will cost plus tax in todays market. Must be 375+……not really something a leaving cert student can afford without serious contemplation….and possibly selling a few things!

I remember they got em after the 141s arived. They asked GM could they get engines but GM only we’re willing to make whole locos. GM eventually did provide engines for the class but while before that, CIE tried maybach engines

We have fort Camden model show in a few months, Upton steam rally and cork airport hotel model show to look forward to in cork perhaps there a little closer?

Most of them were just trial runs running light. There was at least one excursion using one though. I know they never went on the courtmacsherry section(obviously)or the skibbereen to Baltimore section over concerns the Illen bridge was not strong enough to support the wieght of the A’s

Learned today that at least 5 A class locomotives used the West Cork System. The 3 numbers that I could confirm is A55, A54 and A30. This means that technically there is another “technically” West Cork locomotive preserved in castlerea that flew over my head. But it also means that of all the A class loco’s I could have purchased. I chose A30 in silver….completely prototypical to West cork…..well, kinda

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/255478769809 IE/ RPSI Grey 121 anyone?

I suspect it we will be waiting till at least September/October till we get a new loco announcement layed on us…….it’s a shame it seems like murphy’s 201’s won’t be here in time to fill in the gaps

Yes, and to an extent still yes there valuable in the sense they can product RTR stock for those who cannot covert or build for themselves (or do not have the confidence to build) I for one started with silverfox. And I still might buy one or two things off them

Would love to see an N class in MGWR livery. I don’t recall seeing anyone try it before. All it would require is a good transfer provider and a good coat of paint. It fits in the 1910-25 period barely but it deffinettly would have been used on a “mainline” as specified . I’m sure second class N class locos aren’t too expensive either

The midland had locomotives identical to the N class over in the UK (albeit VERY late in the midlands existence) a j72 can mascarade as a very long J26 (like the one in galteemore’s post above) @jhb171achill could be another source for what stock is similar to the Midland that’s already out there