BNM Loco for sale

[gph2000]

This appeared on the RTE Website today:

 

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/0512/1297696-bord-na-mona-auction/

[Westcorkrailway]

My father and my neighbours have some pretty intact CBSC trackbed, I always had a pipe dream of laying BnM track and having a railway that goes from near the main road to a lake. I’d have been ne if those locos disguised as a silver G and improvised coaches all refurbished in the farm workshop…….

 

yes you may ask what stuff I’m smoking

[Galteemore]

Turf, clearly! 

Edited May 13, 2022 by Galteemore

[Westcorkrailway]

33 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Turf, clearly! 

Don’t tell the authorities, god forbid they find my turf stash…Eamonn would give me a life sentence 

[GSR 800]

2 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Don’t tell the authorities, god forbid they find my turf stash…Eamonn would give me a life sentence 

Don't worry, he'd have to leave Dublin for that..

[jhb171achill]

On 13/5/2022 at 6:34 PM, GSR 800 said:

Don't worry, he'd have to leave Dublin for that..

…….and it would take him days to cycle all the way to Wisht Caaark, boy.

[Mayner]

On 14/5/2022 at 2:52 AM, Westcorkrailway said:

My father and my neighbours have some pretty intact CBSC trackbed, I always had a pipe dream of laying BnM track and having a railway that goes from near the main road to a lake. I’d have been ne if those locos disguised as a silver G and improvised coaches all refurbished in the farm workshop…….

 

 Sounds nice in theory particularly if you own/control the land with plenty of readily available narrow gauge equipment.

An acquaintance in the UK built a 2' gauge line on an abandoned BR line beside his property https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/mold-train-station-flintshire-wales-august-2020.124923/ getting started tends to be easy part, the real challenge is establishing sufficient resources (time, money, people) even to maintain and operate a short narrow gauge line. 

The Mold narrow gauge line was a private railway, the owner whose main interest was in telecommunication was an active volunteer on a number of hertiage railways and just did not have the time or resources to maintain or operate his own railway, a situation not dissimilar to my own layout's

[Mike 84C]

I'm rather surprised that local drivers of Transit pickups have not removed all the Mold Rly for recycling, obviously without paying for anything. But a few more years and nature will have overgrown the lot!