Wexford70

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I hope he can do the Grey 071 without the handles on the front of the cab this time!

happy to take one also!

Mine shipped yesterday!!!!!!!

Just make sure to name any valuable items on the home insurance policy. Worth getting advice from your broker. Might be sufficient to say model railway collection and have a total value.

What makes you think Indian?

I'd welcome a C Class but all some of the AEC railcars.

Hi all, I saw this post lamp for sale on eBay recently. I did not realise pot lamps had kerosene burners as the only ones I have seen I assumed were carbide lamps for some reason. Is the photo below likely to have been used in a railway carriage or a wagon such as a horse box? Any good source on lamps would be appreciated.

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The farm where this old coach is located seems to have just been sold if anyone fancies approaching the new owners. I doubt there is much worth saving. Apologies for the poor quality photo. The zoom on my phone is not great.

Des Kiely on Facebook has not seen a photo. Will keep looking. The photo below is of the works after closure in the 1920s.

None that I am aware of, would love to find one. I am sure it was an interesting device. Cooper was a trained engineer (TCD graduate) and the distance between Waterford South and Drinagh would be quite short, 3.5 km.

Update: according do Des Kiely a local author in Wexford, the siding was built one year after the cement works opened, circa 1884. The narrow guage works railway was horse drawn and had three spurs joined to a turn table. The company shipped line and cement made with limestone instead of chalk also using the mud from the local estuary. A major dispute between the Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford Railway and the Waterford & Wexford Railway erupted in May 1889. Services were threatened to be suspended if the W&WR did not guarantee to make immediate payments of monies owed to the DW&WR. At a meeting in the Town Hall in Wexford, the W&WR asked that the service be kept open at least during the bathing season but the line was duly closed. It remained so for the next five years. With the loss of the important train service into Wexford, Harry Cooper came up with a solution. He built his own steam engine to run on the railway line between Drinagh and Wexford, calling his invention the ‘Puffing Billy’. It had a boiler and a tall chimney, and ran on four wheels. It became known as the ‘Donkey Engine.’ (from ‘Fascinating Wexford History - Vol. 5)

Morning all, Would anyone have come across any information on an industrial narrow gauge railway / tramway in Wexford? The website: https://www.railscot.co.uk/companies/W/Waterford_and_Wexford_Railway/ mentions a quarry and the Drinagh cement works being connected to the Wexford Rosslare line by narrow gouge. I have never seen any other references to this. The Drinagh works were operational from 1881-1914 and 1919-1924 originally owned by H.J. Cooper (Cooper and Sons) until 1918. At one stage it was Ireland's only cement works. This link mentions a private siding into Wexford South station https://www.cementkilns.co.uk/cemkilndoc028.html#drin

Speaking of 6 wheel coaches, marvelous photo taken in Rosslare dates September 1886. Would the rolling stock belong to Great Southern & Western Railway or the Waterford & Wexford Railway at this stage? I believe the original line was in continuous financial trouble and closed in 1889 before being reopened in 1894.

Reply from Rails at last: Rails of Sheffield Good afternoon, I have just reviewed your order and unfortunately there has been a delay on the dispatch on the Hattons' Genesis coaches due to Hattons only providing the items in batches and due to the large amounts of orders for the Hattons' Genesis coaches. I apologize for the delay. Kind regards

Paid on the 20th Sept, still waiting

How about a modified Dutch van for the MK2s?

same

Proper secure indoor storage would likely help. Cost is the issue but the north has a better track history of preserving industrial heritage than we do down south.

Shocking to see. As if the railway has not enough challenges. 'Wanton vandalism' to train carriages at Co Down museum (rte.ie) "It was reported that entry had been gained to the site at Market Street and a number of historical carriages had been damaged," a PSNI statement said.

In Wexford the toy shop was owned and run by George Bridges on North Main Street. An small shop with an enormous store room that was opened for Christmas. He stocked some Hornby and Lima trains including train sets. An absolute gentleman, he lived above the shop with his family and would open late Christmas eve and early Christmas morning for all those parents that forgot batteries.

Did all of the second hand BR MK2s end up with black rooves when carrying the Irish Rail logo? I see in IRM models two have orange rooves.

That's true!!!!

I understand why discounts happen and am happy for those who avail of them, but I always feel a bit hard done by if I have paid full price when a model first comes out.