Westcorkrailway

What is the livery on the wagon nearest the J15 with an almost creme snail in the side. I saw one of these lift the bantry line too, is that the colour they used for maintainance back then?

This station was fully painted in October of 1960, and flattened by 1963, it was a road by 1964

Is it still the case they only make Irish stuff in August/October i’d be getting one in silver if any colour. I reckon even still I’d have to make modifications to my order if this van is anything to go by. I think the chassis, and the gangway are supposed to be silver. And perhaps with the release of the A class. Revising the colour of these to fit those locos more would be better? I don’t think RTR versions of these will be out soon if at all. When JM designs have done a great kit for those of us skilled enough, and silverfox have these ready to go at a years notice! So I MIGHT pick one of these up

did anyone on here ever get the bullied luggage van in its origional silver livery and what it was like?

3 of my coaches have found a new home 20 minutes away….

100 euros for 2 wagons, which the fella on adverts will deliver for 5 for 100 and there brand new! Some enthusiastic pricing there. I’m going to assume the Chris Dier 29k isint worth 567 euros either

And as we speak, the seller has changed the listing from murphy models to “scratch built?” As I suspected, didn’t even realise what he had

I saw that on Facebook, what a plank. some poor sod is going to be wondering why everyone was raving about the 071. It looks very shoddy What’s worse is It might not be intentional. Judging by the reviews of the seller. It’s likely that he thinks it’s the same model selling for €300

all it’s missing is a tin van….

Perhaps “hint hint” we need some RPSI locos to haul this stock

Looks brilliant as always Perhaps some irishication to those coaches could be in the cards?

Date of June 5th 1958 was a Thursday, as I previously mentioned, a vintage 6 wheeler was always used the strengthen the service on Thursdays

If there was a sound chip, Facebook has provided the perfect gricer quote

Agreed! All major preservation society’s are based north of Dublin. ma’am cross, RPSI, cultra, C&L, Donegal ect. Waterford has the Suir valley, Kerry has the lartigue railway, Clare has moyesta, Tipperary has ITG in carrick. The cost and time to get to and from any of these sites is a bit of an object. Meanwhile in the whole county of cork we have no.36 in Kent and 2 Park Royal coaches in the west cork model railway village.

Sell old MM ones for 400 quid and buy new ones for 189.99….

this is dead right. As scarce as they are now. We still have a few more years to wait for those GMs to become viable again With NIR mk2 coaches, A and C sharing general shape and detail (and as we know, IRM like to re-use assets as per the recent wagon announcement!) the bookies would be odds on for a C Class announcement much later on this year.

Fair enough, I would have thaught with the only 3 in service. It would have had to wait a while for its turn (granted there were only 3 800 class locos too, and I’d hope as much as anyone else they will get RTR representation)

Agreed, anyone anticipating an NIR mk2 should get a kit/rtr hunslet.

They were painted that way around 1970 (I think!?) anything green was gone

A42, A30 and A55 work on pre 1963 van. A55 and A42 for post 1963 grey. I don’t think either livery saw the red/brown livery vans. I could be corrected on that I think the last of the green was gonr by 1967, and cravens introduced in 1963(?). I’m not sure when the last green A class was repainted though. Something that @jhb171achill might be able to elaborate on

Great idea in theory. In practice, that one guy will buy it and share the 3D model to whoever wants it. Or even print out the model and sell the finished product. Hence why such you don’t see it too often.

Looks like you could have 90 and a rake of DWWR vans to go with it!

It might be worth a shot to try print out 90 in N Gauge and see what comes out. Does anyone make an N gauge terrier? and more importantly would anyone in this forum be interested in an N gauge no.90?

I have seen somone in here, getting a fairly rough Clayton railcar. That they were able to salvage but the delivered condition was fairly bad (I beleive it was a shapeways product) however I believe that the models being provided here are of a decent enough quality for most people, as I’m sure you can make your own opinions on by looking at the below images And demonstrated here is a 7mm model, which was made by simply upping the print size

The thing with N gauge, is that 00 gauge model can easily be scaled down and printed out. I just don’t think a 3D printer could do a very good N gauge model due to the sizes involved for the comparatively big nozel