Colin R

Admittedly, there is now a lot of Irish narrow gauge in kit form from Worsley, that said, however, this is one of those chicken and egg situations, I know 00n3 modellers who have splashed out on a new Hornby TT120 scale 08 chassis the biggest draw back to the size/scale is the lack of a commercial locomotive chassis. There are two items of narrow gauge which I think would work for most people, they are 1. the West Clare bogie Diesel or 2. the West Clare/Donegal Railcar, there is of course one outstanding NG loco and wagon set that you could put on a modern day layout and that would be a Wagonmaster and a train of Peat wagons, it could even be done as a complete roundy roundy layout with a loco and say 3 peat wagons. Then later on you could introduce a railcar. Would that work? I don't know, but I would have one if it was made.

I think some of the smaller Irish 3ft gauge stock that could also run on 009 might be a good toe in the water exercise

Thanks Guys I have spoken to IRM and cancelled my order. I will give it a few days and then place an order for an SSM kit Colin

It just occurred to me that I should have asked if the Queens will convert to 21mm Gauge?

Having just pre-ordered these wee beasties, it occurred to me if they can be regauged to 21mm.

There goes a bit more of the pension pot

Well I didn't expect this https://www.accurascale.com/blogs/irish-railway-news/the-high-queens-of-ireland-irm-celebrates-10th-birthday-with-gswr-800s back to the coal face for this one Colin

I feel we are doing great guns with all this later date stock (CIE period) but what of pre-CIE stock? I know I might be shooting myself in the foot, but from what (little) I know of the Irish railway system, was there ever a dominant company pre CIE that stamped its mark over the majority of the Irish Railway system? Sure, we have the Great Southern Period, but did it add anything to the rolling stock totals? I think it has been said before that if it was not for the UK market supporting this side of the business, then we wouldn't have anything to run. That said, the wallet groans when IRM announces yet another new model, but I guess you need to keep up with Jones's on this one. Besides the cattle wagons from Leslie and the odd brake van, what else is there that we need to complete the typical Irish model layout stock wise? Colin R PS I do get it that any new Irish stock also needs to try and break even on its development costs

In my hurry to order these wagons, I guess I must have over-ordered the H vans as another 12 turned up today, that's OK as i think I have a fair number of wagons, but the next question is will the three grain van I have ordered be enough, I am hoping they will do a set two with different numbers also just how many grain vans would have been made up into one train at a time. Colin

Well, I have just had a count up and currently I have 36 wagons and four A class locos in RTR state. But I also have about a dozen kits to build one day for 21mm gauge. That is without the IRM coaches yet to come, and those items of stock I would like to buy from Leslie. I need to find some drawings for the Belfast and County Down steam locos, I would love to have a few of those about at sometime

Just ordered mine, just need to buy a brakevan or two.

As they appeared to have gone so fast, I hope they do another run of them at some point. Colin

I now wish that I had ordered a packet of grain wagons Coliin

Thanks I will do that

Hi Boskey I need to try again on Monday as I can't get into the Accurascale site with my IRM email address and password so I might have to set up a new account

Hi, Guys did anything come of these cattle wagon kits?

give him a few weeks to work out what is what and he will be ok in his new home, just keep him in if you can for a week or so, so that he gets his scent all over the place so his knows where home is Sorry running a bit late with this one but now that I've got my Vans, I was wondering did they do a cattle wagon in the same series? Colin

He would only be interested if there were a golf course nearby

Here you go just found this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375780050594?_skw=knightwing+oo+model+railways&itmmeta=01JK537SJZQRM79XXPVXFY3VPF&hash=item577e3c86a2:g:LHkAAOSwJB1nMOrP&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKmS7Z%2FYMexNxivItR0zxwxf5fAUaEeNg17%2BAjNiBcifCBt4I0IeM5QQgxBHJ9jdbnj7THwag374O1aU26j04JGhHnrniWeBT32C1tAABsM3SRMBix3Zz7oVOElmLDMVU4DmHRa%2F8tms187HE8kEyDGGEIRVrRHhYGa4KlAQ6z3Qdd6TPTYuKZTKG4DrILj6fDBa9S2F%2BrlRUdL51ZrnhltXW4lLH2uhbNFl%2B8hACmHgdFkxDxTY%2Fog97hlUU%2Fu9BO5x7wrEbgShZWPX60E4rqOC|tkp%3ABk9SR-qZn6OZZQ

Thanks, Mark The chassis part will be no problem, I spoke to Neville about this and he tells me he is working on a new power bogie for these kits, that said I also need to look at those cheap chassis from falling as well. The chassis floor for the coach section is also no problem as this can be made from either Brass or Plastikard depending on your personal choice, the coach bogies are the same as those produced by Worsley Works, wheelsets when they become available again from Branchlines or Markets many of the other bits from the scrap bin the cab light I think I have seen these available somewhere else with a white/yellow LED. At the moment I am not sure just how far to go with the electrical bits

Hi, Mark, that is why I didn't bid any more than £50.00 for it, I will now look at those from Pheonix and if so I may buy four of them, I do have a couple of Worsley Works CDR railcar which ain't right in my view, but I have found them to be closer to the West Clare version that the Donegal versions. The big issue for the Worsely works is that being brass it is hard to get the right curves in the right place

Hi Mark, thanks, but that sadly is the wrong one I am after. Thanks again. It now appears that Hornby makes a 0-6-0 version, but from what I have read, it is not popular, so I will wait until someone is selling one cheap. As for the CDR Railcar kit, someone else bought it for about 70 pounds. I did however manage to purchase two old Gem Varikit locos both the A and the B types for the loco collection, so it is not a total lost.

Yes please, I recently saw a photo of one of these that someone had converted over to a 5.5mm scale narrow gauge loco, shades of a modern-day Ffestiniog Railway diesel, I think it might do for an 00n3 loco of the 1960s

Yes, I am after the railcar kit. As for his West Clare layout, there is not much left of it at present, I have been able to save most of the buildings and a lot of the fittings. Many of them were Knightwing kits, which I am gathering replacements to extend the collection as and when I see them on eBay. Robin was not happy about that layout and in some ways, I was lucky to go there on the day when he was just about to take it down to the local tip. Besides a small collection of his IOMR locos and a collection of various spares (which I am still working through), I have about fourteen IOMR locos from different sources. The plan is to build a layout based on the Manx Northern line to Ramsey, but at the same time I hope to be able to introduce an element of West Clare as well, at present I am looking to see if I can find a suitable good shed in stone. One loco kit I am looking for is the second Nightwing Rolls Royce Sentinal industrial loco, I haven't seen one in ages, but as Knighwing are no more, again it is waiting to see if one pops up on eBay.

I was wondering when this one would appear as I need it. I do have something which I can replace the chassis with for use on OOn3