Westcorkrailway

Have you considered the D Class shunter (ecentually Irelands version of the 08 shunter) silverfox make them too, from scratch is also more then possible I intend get around to 90 myself….eventually Removing detail from a pecket and repainting it is perfect. All of my Irish rolling stock and Irish steam locos are conversions of British stuff done from scratch In a very exclusive club! I was suprised to learn how far these little locos lasted into GSR and even CIE days. Another allman distillery bandon shunter Manning waddle no. 299 (bantry) Was going to go to fenit but a MGWR J26 class was put on that work instead. I believe it was withdrawn in 1954

perhaps a look at this thread shows the differences between 495 and an actual pecket i would (and probably am anyway) get an 88ds. There is about 4 of them preserved, must be one of the most numerous preserved class in Ireland I must stress I did not make that No.90. Those photos belong to the seller of the print mark dunlea. It’s another project I must get around to! That jinty looks very good, @jhb171achill shared some good photos recently of many NCC locos lined up for scrap and that looks very similar

They have an awful lot of stuff in development or being delayed as of present. The Ruston shunters are due for Autumn this year, I recall them being due for may when initially announced I still have weird gut feeling that since the war of the companies is so tight, either hattons or Hornby may still put out a CIE variant of the 6 wheel generic coaches…..since Hornby are willing to do S&DJR ones ect…..now that would be good (ecpecially from hattons)

Yes the 165 DS at Tuam had wasp stripes I believe that Allmans distillery Bandon loco was still kicking around until 1949 perhaps another loco worth mentioning is the Bachman jinties, if your lucky you came find the murphy models commissioned ones in NCC livery.

I don’t know what Hornby are playing at making a titfield thunderbolt set when they don’t have (what I understand) is exclusive rights! Why are they clearly trying to take a punt at rapido….when they could have just made lion and left it at that. If there is one good thing to come out of it, the response video is brilliant! I was a small bit miffed that they announced coal wagons. I’m sure accurascale would like to say a few words about that Oh and £250 is now the average price of a loco….lovely

it was supposed to come out last year. Still have not been released i think

It looks fairly good actually. No floor in the cab being the only major gripe

The “rowntree” livery on the ruston 88ds looks pretty good even without modification. Obviously you’d want to repaint anyway. these are the prints

There are plenty of other shunting locos that could be achieved. One that comes to my mind is the preserved GSWR no.90, which is do able via the 3d print and an old terrier chassis. but the Hornby 88ds already looks pretty good without much modification

I almost forgot about Iarnród enda……hopefully it will stay forgotten

The courtmacsherry section could not be weedsprayed due to the weeds holding the ballast together when waves or flooding occurred. for those who want to see prototypical Courtmacsherry speed, at 45:20 minutes into this documentary it shows footage. https://youtu.be/eOeIbJHawV0 Considering how much the un-authentic ones get

There is a slight gradient coming into courtmacsherry village and I beleive twas common for the footplate Crewe to give it a burst of speed up the hill, before coasting into the terminal itself. besides, there were many excursion trains that didn’t follow those limits!

Somewhere on my computer, I have colour footage of 100/90 double header excursion into courtmacsherry. They went some speed past the primary school

@leslie10646 announced that the website was going down earlier this year. But if you drop him a PM he should be able to sort you out. I have also ordered from millipede. As it happens it was those bulleid wagons I got from him. There a good model for somone of “my skill”. The one thing I will fault is not having a PayPal set up. I hate having to send cash in the post as many have had bad experiences there

Provincial wagons make a fantastic kit. To make the Definitive bulleid wagon There is also a fella on adverts that custom makes much more rudimentary bulleid wagons in rtr

break out the measuring tape! well we would have to if SSM did not have a kit already out

ahh the actual black and silver livery As a pose to the one in the picture that hattons uses

i believe this particular 0 gauge example belongs to a forum member.

Correct and correct

There’s photos by Brian baker are taken on that section of track on closing day of the west cork. Clearly well looked after

My first layout looked something like this poor Thomas had to pull a rake of 10 or so open wagons up that gradient! I should have kept some of those red bridges around, they could pull of a corrib bridge type design

From the Barry case collection on the cork county archives some very valuable colour shots of the railway scene in cork in the late 50s

Ordered one , I’ll be honest 103 Australian dollars frightened this shite out of me but the conversion rate was more lenient then I remember

It’s for what the first photo I took, I haven’t a clue. I would imagine it would be of the Ruston In halfway but perhaps here lies my evidence of railway enthusiasm from a young age

I might offer a trade for a few screws , 70 cent and a packet of tayto’s Jesus Facebook can be a disease sometimes what’s with is “Ex-Murphy Models”? Is that made up for more waffle