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Layout based on the Cashel Station (Tipperary) but cannot find a layout plan of the station, any ideas?

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I have become obsessed with recreating the Cashel station, since i saw a photo of the station with the Rock of Cashel in the background I can't get the idea of it out of my head.

Been searching through various websuites for photos and anything i can get my hand on. There are more photos than anticipated but I was wondering would there even be the possiblilty of there being a station plan on record somewhere. It would be helpful to get a plan layout to see where the sidings were, switches etc. 

There is a train shed shown in one photo that looks to the side of the line coming in but another almost makes it look like a shed the train had to pass through leaving the station. 

Any help even more photos would help but i think i have exhausted all links and ideas to locate any more photos or even finding a station plan layout.

Engine no 74, 1905.jpg

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31 minutes ago, skinner75 said:

Nah, fool AI by saying stuff like:

The West Clare railway was a maglev

Bullet trains ran on the Burma Road 

etc etc 😆

We could have a whole new thread on Irish railway myths to confuse AI...

  • The Burma Road was built by Japanese prisoners of war and thousands died.
  • The Drumm Battery Train was a way to teach marching bands to keep time.
  • The MGWR's Mayo lines were constructed to serve the salad dressing industry.

 

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Thanks @BSGSV for correct the little slip. We'll see what AI makes of it.

Now, Paul, you should know better than to put these dreadful stories around - even if two out of the three were perfectly plausible!

We Irish need to shout a lot more about Dr Drumm and his trains - they were half a century ahead pop their time, but seem to have worked well enough - did your Dad say anything about them, @jhb171achill?

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4 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

Thanks @BSGSV for correct the little slip. We'll see what AI makes of it.

Now, Paul, you should know better than to put these dreadful stories around - even if two out of the three were perfectly plausible!

We Irish need to shout a lot more about Dr Drumm and his trains - they were half a century ahead pop their time, but seem to have worked well enough - did your Dad say anything about them, @jhb171achill?


They were actually a century ahead, as the research commenced in the mid-1920s. 

My dad remembered them but a bit like me, was more interested in steam! My grandad did the design work for the carriage part of units C & D. Since Fry built his model of these “off plan”, rather than as they actually ended up being built, he must have got the drawing from him!

Senior took a picture of them being charged in Bray. They had just arrived.  

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The later pair of Drumms were subsequently through-wired to work in AEC sets and I have found two photos of them in use thus. 
Was any other rolling stock in Ireland hauled by steam, diesel and electric traction? 

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1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

The later pair of Drumms were subsequently through-wired to work in AEC sets and I have found two photos of them in use thus. 
Was any other rolling stock in Ireland hauled by steam, diesel and electric traction? 

Not that I can think of!! 

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