Rob R

Colin,

There will be similar issues in S Scale as well, width inside splashers, width inside tender frames, too narrow splashers between the wheels inside cabs etc.

None of which are insurmountable with due consideration at the design stage.

A thought I had about the spalshers is to make the splasher open fronted with a small groove in the rim and to file up some 10 thou brass semi circular fronts to glue in.

Please excuse the scribbled sketch but a pictue is worth a thousand words (I wish someone brave would tell my missus that!).

I should add that I have not yet tried this for real.

Rob

Locos of the GS&WR mentions that they were used on the fast fish specials from Fenit for which screw reverse would be more useful.

The resources  section has a copy of the "Engineer" drawing of Robinson's 240 which shows the Screw Reverse nicely.

Rob

More West Clare and some nice WL&WR here:-

Limerick City Museum

A bit of a trawl to get through but it's worth it.

R

EDIT. The link doesn't go all the way. Choose "advanced search" and put "railway" in the keyword box.

Sorry, it's late (or early?) and the brain can't work it out.........

Sorry to drag up an old(ish) thread but, if anyone is after West Clare photos then a look here might be worthwhile:-

West Clare Railway

R

I might be interested in a 1/64th (S Scale) version...........

It may well be a stiff time target but the SSMRS will be having an 80th birthday party in 2026.......

On 10/3/2024 at 10:39 PM, David Holman said:

 Lovely scale, lovely size and that rather enigmatic, imperial track gauge too. Sixty three sixty fourths of an inch for those who didn't know.

 

63/64" which is as near as makes no odds 25mm

S Scale.

A scale for all seasons

I hope there is room for my Baldwin with the 9:35 from Bantry........

Hattons had 150 of them in stock at the start of their closing down sale.

Now we know where they went......

If I ever get around to scratchbuilding one in S scale I will be 3d printing the tank etc which should rescale up or down as required.

Too many other things to do before then so don't hold your breath........

Rob

26 minutes ago, Mike 84C said:

I posted that Baldwin drawing quite a few years ago. I rather suspect that all of the American imports were not successful/ liked in  the UK is the totally different engineering philosiphy of the American builders and the "not invented here" attitude of GB engineers. That ones still about!

 Interesting article about the Port Talbot 0-8-2t's in Railway Archive No 4 July 2003 it also has a very good drawing. They were built by Cooke of Paterson NJ.

 

Mike, Apologies for reposting the link.

I did try to search the forum before I posted it but drew a blank.

Rob

If anyone fancies a little scratchbuilding project:-

Brandon Baldwin erecting drawing

Apologies if it has been posted on here before (I did look first - honest guv)

Rob

The National Library of Scotland have recently added some Irish OS maps (for all 26 counties).

Link for six inch maps other scales available as well.

No 25 inch to the mile yet but hopefully they will come with time.

Rob

Re:- Donkey pictures

Just for completeness, details from Ernie Sheperd's book.

From left to right

1038 Swansea Wagon Company 1892

1127 Gloucester C&W Company 1895

609 Limerick 1886 "renewal" of Bristol C&W company 1871

1047 Swansea Wagon Company 1892

1108 Limerick 1894

plus 2 possible W&CIR.

Rob

Looking at a couple of photos being discussed on another thread I suddenly realized that there may be a couple of W&CIR Vans in plain sight.....

Donkey 01

Donkey 02

Rob

There was a question a few posts back  about the livery of WLWR wagons, the 2 in Ernie Sheperds book from the Gloucester Carriage and Wagon Co are shown varnished timber with black ironwork and lettering.

Here is one of the cattle trucks in service still with the black lettering and presumeably the varnished timber weathered down so that it looks grey.

All the other wagons in these photos and others are lettered in white so presumeably it was just the GWC batch.

Donkey 01

Donkey 02

I have put both links in as the people have moved around between photos uncovering different bits of the wagons.

The HMRS have the underframe drawing for these cattle vans

Cattle van underframe

Here is a similar (or the same) van at Waterford.

I take it that if and when I eventually build one of these vans, I should be able to letter it WLWR with a reasonable degree of confidence?

The rest of the goods yard is well worth a zoom around as well.

Waterford Brake Van

Hi, I hope you don't mind me resurrecting an oldish thread.

In the National Library of Ireland online photo collection there are some nice WLWR period views of Foynes.

This one (when you zoom in) shows the tail end of a brake van, presumeably WLWR as all the other visible stock is WLWR.

Foynes

Zoomed in

A different type of van is clearly visable in a couple of later views but as they were taken in early GSWR days it may well be from that company not the WLWR

Another Foynes view

Another GSWR? Brake Van

4 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:

Excellent find - I have been browsing the the Poole collection on the NLI hoping to catch something like this, but I completely overlooked the W&L Extension pics. 

 

Many hours of browsing (night shifts!) using lots of random search terms.

I found that using place names as a search term was quite productive for railway bits (Try Foynes or Portrush - not for the W&CIR though), setting the date filter to the 1860-1920 narrowed it down a bit.

Good Morning,

Sorry to butt in on my first posting but I have not found anywhere for new member introductions.

I too have been looking for any information on W&CIR locos and stock for a potential S Scale  layout and this is what I have found so far - precious little!

From the National Library of Ireland:-

  https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000329450 a glimpse of W&CIR No 12

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590012 W&CIR van just behind the erstwhile WL&WR N0 34

From an unknown internet source a low res copy of a Vulcan Foundry works photo of 8 and 9

Another low res works photo, this time of  No 4

From  Leeds Engine Fowler 240 in original form

From Chasewater Stuff (sorry, can't find the link right now) No 11

And lastly for now, from The Engineer (sorry I didn't make a note of which issue, will get back to you with that and a link) Nos 10 and 11

The Mersyside Maritime Museum has some relevant Vulcan Foundry bits including a drawing of the inside framed tender on the Vulcan 240's No 8 & 9. I will try and dig out the details for you.

If I find anything else I will post it here.

Rob