Westcorkrailway

The flying snail version isn't too bad either….

No doubt to announce 00 gauge headboards!

Thank god! I’ve never been to the place so it’s a nice opertunity I wonder however how many will actually show up….something tells me if you turn up on the day without a ticket they’ll fit you in…..free tickets always have that disadvantage

@jhb171achill did a good thread explaining the difference between the numbers on 6 wheelers I remember that the letter detiermined there origions (coaches marked B came from the CB&SCR) ect.

It looks like 701, but it is most certainly 201 immaculate photo

I reckon an British 071 would have covered gangways (I think we had a baby GM with a similar setup here) to blend in more with British stuff already out there I saw he just posted these Vietnam flashback locomotives

Youghal is close enough to the town in my opinion. If you ever do go there there is a fair gradient and curve up into the town from the station so it’s fair enough Wierd to think there were trains on cork city’s streets in supertrain days…

Tracks at youghal station were lifted last week, the turntable will be restored but I think the rest is all gone

if anyone feels like bodging a few 6 wheelers be my guest! I more then likely will be getting genesis coaches of some description, and many of us will. I don’t think many will be trying to make one of these Emergency era……wagons?

If this is a real old school loco, won’t exactly be “Dcc ready”

It’s the Boris bridge A class

Veering off topic, Herman göring had a MASSIVE layout and had a huge collection of locos with which he would play for hours….. one has to wonder if the vice chancellor’s huge layout was based on strabane….or even mallow

Presumably your A’s have EMD engines Used all my fuel to try start my crossley A’s. It didn’t work and now I’m relying on polish coal!

Brexit-The gift that keeps on taking my communion money

Looks Very similar to the current state of innoshannon viaduct

To a young fella like myself. There is simply no comparison between B/W and colour. The atmosphere is much easier for my imagination to capture call that a sin if you will!

And thanks to IRM. There are some track panels waiting to be laid!

There is plenty Of locos and coaches I can think of that could find a home there

I wonder who will get the last A class ever sold 1st hand

Didn’t know ye could do that!

That’s a fantastic question I’m even thinking of towns in cork and can’t name too many that never ever had a rail connection. Killbritain, castownbere, glengarrif, ballycotton, cloyne, leap and rosscarbery. Castletownbere and glengarrif were origionally supposed to be done in the origional CBSCR line, but instead those areas were served by steamship to the railway at bantry a fiticous glengarrif is already imagined in a layout by Ernie of this parish leap and rosscarbery were also supposed to be part of a line between Clonakilty and skibbereen. Which was also scrapped. Perhaps a fictitious line where a junction at Middleton bought you down to ballycotton via cloyne. man that’s only one county! Does anyone know any other major exclusions from getting a railway station, bellmullet? Louisburgh?

It’s some sort of 4-4-0 design here in Ireland too. It’s yellow and it has a level crossing silhouette on the sign. not a bad alternative, but hard to imagine in my head. Would a stretched 071 look well?

I always spend them in Argos, bound to find SOMEthing of use in there

Characterless, peat briquette, doorstop, paperweight unreliable bricks that some may think of them. I will always like the 201 class (ecpecially in IE Silver/Green). And regardless of what many think of these locos, they will be with us a good while yet!

Lima 201’s should be the beginners entry level mode to the Irish hobby, if only they all went for that price!