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The "Eyre Lee Bird" railtour Cork-Galway-Return 5th April 2025
Westcorkrailway replied to Niles's topic in What's On?
While refreshments aren’t provided. (I don’t think there is a trolly service this time!) brining your own supplies is fine. I flash back to the last 2600 tour to Waterford. A dunnes stores bag full of cans! The lack of a table makes it even more fun! @Niles can we make up a makeshift bar -
Work was done on it to send it to fenit, but that work was taken by something else. The MGWR locos certainly would be a good shout. All the obscure Midland branches it got too…. On Bandon tanks, they certainly seemed well liked in Dublin. William McDonnell said he’d have preferred another batch of Bandons to the 670 and 850 class! 2 lasted until 1963, 4 or 5 made it to the 1960s. 2 locos got into CIE lined green. I’ve only found a colour photo of 467 heavily weathered but I suspect is wearing green under the filth. 466 is the other loco. There is also this Ex works photo on the archive. Appears to show 467 in green (look at the lining on the tanks) https://flic.kr/p/2pwnTtN the rebuilds of them can get a bit confusing though. Especially 463’s condition for its final 15 years.
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“The Irish Corridor” an Irish Train game
Westcorkrailway replied to Westcorkrailway's topic in General Chat
Roblox studio I’m sure. Good railway chat on that discord too mind you. Probobly one of the only places where the vast majority are young rather then old. Certainly a different view of a community -
“The Irish Corridor” an Irish Train game
Westcorkrailway replied to Westcorkrailway's topic in General Chat
All dart units are made by a member of the team that exclusively loves Darts. 8200s are 99 percent done. 81s are more like 60 percent. Realism isint the aim. You can run 8200s to Kildare if you like all development activity happens through discord unfortunatly. The group link invite is below https://discord.gg/XC8BAvGN -
“The Irish Corridor” an Irish Train game
Westcorkrailway replied to Westcorkrailway's topic in General Chat
Sometimes, a bit of tomfoolery when making the models is required -
Hello all slightly different from the modeling we are all used to! These are models for a new railway simulator being worked on presently. It will be based from Dublin - Kildare and if proven popular enough, might be extended in the future. The game is featuring accurate sound recordings of each class. And while NPC trains are not possible, multiplayer will be essentially a core part of the experience. As it is part of the Roblox experience, It will be free to run. Below are some of the stuff almost finished thus far
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CIE loco 'allocations' to depots
Westcorkrailway replied to Mol_PMB's question in Questions & Answers
I think you owe JHB a pint when you get to Galway…… -
CIE loco 'allocations' to depots
Westcorkrailway replied to Mol_PMB's question in Questions & Answers
This would have been the case in the early 1950s but regular steam passenger traffic had finished by 1955/6 so a different arrangement had to have been made from then on -
Making an ‘E’ – the Maybach Diesel Model Assembly thread
Westcorkrailway replied to Mol_PMB's topic in Irish Models
Only seen this now. Sublime work….it looks perfect! (Other then said weathering in due course, cause Christ these got dirty) -
CIE loco 'allocations' to depots
Westcorkrailway replied to Mol_PMB's question in Questions & Answers
I wish we did!!!! lol but IRM are not going to spoil a model just so people can get running numbers they like. C201 in plain silver is a dead on but other then That it’s free real estate. I’d l love C231 in lined green, C212 in unlined green and C202 in silver, but highly unlikely that will come to pass and I’ll have to get onto a decal remover! liveries Silver Green Lined Green Dark lined green (?) Black Black Yellow panel black yellow panel with yellow buffer Black and Tan low band Black and Tan high band supertrain NIR thinking about it. C226 and C231 would probobly be in there liveries, maybe not as preserved but that would make sense -
CIE loco 'allocations' to depots
Westcorkrailway replied to Mol_PMB's question in Questions & Answers
That being said, litterally every single C class ended up on the West Cork system within 2 years. It’s also suspected that a fair amount of the AEC sets did as well. So even by this stage it was a very much chop, change and rotate system -
I don’t see any 450 class bud
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This is a good point i guess I hadn’t thought of. considering they were originally supposed to be Pacific’s, and much more then just the 3. They certainly would have been nice PR. A photo of one going over the bridge in mallow might have been a good propaganda picture! Though for me. A failed experiment is as interesting as a superb success if not more so. Perhaps that’s why that mid green tailte is calling to me… Here is a small video for the dieselites out there who need to be converted
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An excellent presentation in Bru Columbanus tonight by Ciaràn cooney. Included shots of extremely long excursion trains in the 1960s hauled by a Black Sulzer loco. The coaches were in both green and Black and Tan. Mostly made up of GSWR bogey coaches!