Rob R

Just to add a little more. From the National Library of Ireland here :- Larne Rob

Was looking at this a few nights ago and found an excellent couple of articles and drawings for former BNCR Brake Vans in New Irish Lines. New Irish Lines Vol 8 No 1 May 2017 (page 29) and more here New Irish Lines Vol 8 No 2 November 2017 (page 55) The HMRS have an early BNCR Brake Van drawing of very much the same design. BNCR Brake Van Enjoy Rob

I just did a quick phone snap. Trevor did the magic.

Trowland will be around for a while yet and can be seen next at the EM society's Workshop Wise, Stannington Village Hall, Morpeth, UK on October 26th and at the Festival of British Railway Modelling, Doncaster Racecourse Feb 8th/9th 2025. I am in the process of fitting a 3 track traintable in place of the little 2 road sector plate that Trevor fitted - great for home use but far too fiddly for shows and too much stock handling for comfort. Rob

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.......

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

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