gph2000 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 This appeared on the RTE Website today: https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/0512/1297696-bord-na-mona-auction/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westcorkrailway Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galteemore Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 (edited) Turf, clearly! Edited May 13, 2022 by Galteemore 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westcorkrailway Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 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 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike 84C Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 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! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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