Colin R

I am not sure which coach could hold 100 passengers, but they sure did have three coaches that could carry 80 passengers in eight compartments. As I understand it I think the tourist coaches on the West Clare Railway had three liveries: 1 all over green 2 green lower panels and white/cream window frames 3 Red/maroon lower panels and white/cream window frames The end of the carriages was as the livery around the sides where windows are concerned. If there were no windows then the main colour was used at the end of the coach.

Hi JBH I have yet to see any of the CB&PR observation coaches with black ends, I am not sure about non-observation ends but looking at various photos I don't think any CB&PR coaches were so treated, As you have pointed out, having two distinct liveries makes for an interesting dilemma. Should I go for Green Coaches or GSR Maroon? On the whole, I am thinking more in terms of most of the free state stock in Maroon, whereas the Donegal stock may turn out in Red and Cream. The early Swilly livery of Salmon Pink and Brown sides with Red crimson ends also appeals. This will then leave me with what colour do I do the Ballycastle stock

Wow part of me could not find any new photos, but those notes need to be republished in a new book along with drawings and details of the Railway that has appeared in the model railway press over time. I bet there is still more to be found locally in Cork. Colin

The only stock list I have is from Joe Begley and Steve Flanders's book Ireland's Narrow Gauge Railway. It has 28 coaches and 34 wagons, and that is all. Colin

HI Rob. Thank you for finding the album photos. It now poses a new problem, in that there is a photo in there of coach No 42 of the CB&PR. As far as I knew, they didn't have one with a number going that high but stopping at 36, I also knew that they missed out on a few coach numbers, but unless that is down to the research in the past, I think they only had about 28 coaches in total. Regards Colin

Hi Guys I need your help, I think I have almost all the published information about the above railway, but I am missing photos or plans of some of the bogie coaching stock. What I have I also happen to have all of the types produced by Worsley Works in OOn3 ie bogie 1st or 3rd (same body shell) I also have Saloon No 10, and finally I also have 3rd Brake No 33 (the rebuilt version). Saloon No10 was different to all the others, from what I can make out, it had an extra compartment whereas all the other saloons only had one compartment. Coming on to the bogie 1st or 3rd class brake coaches it is not clear just how many compartments each of these had since I don't happen to have any photos of this type of coach. Another 3rd class coach saloon had just two compartments but looked like a normal 6-compartment coach on the outside, but it only had two doors per side in the middle of each compartment. In all, I think there are seven coaches that I don't have any details of, so if you guys have anything about the stock from this line. Thank you all in advance for any help given. Regards Colin Rainsbury

I think in the long term it will be down to the person who produced the body shell in the first place if you have their email address you could ask them if they are going to release their products again on the new Shapeways site when it opens for business. Colin

Make it 5.

If you have contacted Allen, he tends to reply the following morning if he can. Regards Colin R

I know some of you will have one or two in your collections but over on that Auction site I can see some of these coaches (Not in Irish liveries of course) are going for reasonable sums so I wonder if I should look at them to help fill up the lack of coaching stock I have at present

What was that you were saying? it is now up to £30.00 I can see a rerun coming about

One thing about 3D printing is that you would need to make sure you can fit a 21mm gauge chassis under it. The other thing would also be to try and consider what Bachman / Hornby chassis you can use under the print and just how accurate you want to be. Something else to think about would be of course to print a scale 3D print chassis block and take the bits from an above donor chassis.

I have to admit I wouldn't mind it myself

Yay thank you for that guys so interesting Colin

I wonder if it will eventually be uploaded to YouTube for those of us who won't be able to watch it on TV.