Westcorkrailway

For those who feared that ireland would be “mark 3 free” executive coach number 7161 is heading for newcastle west for a resteraunt coach there…..as captured by Andrew goodman I must say…..Depite the fact it has 2 snails for some reason….this is a truly excellent peice of preservation

I didn’t know IRM produced factory weathered 1:1 scale ballast wagons..or produce a Dcc sound chip that has a “shout get off yer arse” option

Stunning wagon my open wagons are just primer grey with white snails. All dapol 6 plank wagons as you can get them cheaply enough unpainted

I don’t know how much I can tell but it’s the mk3 executive coach…and it’s in a livery it never wore in service…

If you input the .co.uk website for IRM into the searchbar. Will it bring you to the accurascale website by default?

You could always go to the whitehead railway museum or the museum of transport off the Bangor line. open to correction but the 111s are pretty sparingly used in the north

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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?