Former CBSCR Layout

[Andy Cundick]

A point to note is that 552 which appears to have been the regular Courtmacsherry engine has got an enlarged bunker.Andy.

[jhb171achill]

And 560 was to be seen as well; the only one to keep her plates right to the end, I think.

[Westcorkrailway]

58 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

And 560 was to be seen as well; the only one to keep her plates right to the end, I think.

I think i saw footage of 560 crossing the city railway with her plates on. 552 and 559 were the regulars in the later days but i think 560, 551, 553 and 557 have been on the line if not more! 

[Westcorkrailway]

And....with only a few small things like using spare SSM transfers to make decals, fixing the buffer ect. GSWR Number 33 is complete. As far as i know this engines last hurrah was working the Clonakilty branchline loosing the Macroom line to its closure and the Cobh line to the introduction of diesal railcars.

[Galteemore]

Very nice indeed. Look forward to seeing her with numbers etc

[Galteemore]

Nice shots in Ernie’s Flickr account today for you....

[Westcorkrailway]

39 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Nice shots in Ernie’s Flickr account today for you....

Aye I just saw them there, good rescource for whenever i do get no.90 and maybe some more justification for great northern stock!

[Westcorkrailway]

On 02/11/2020 at 11:04 AM, Westcorkrailway said:

Just ordered a Bandon tank from studio scale models...however not the full kit with the wheels, gearbox, coupling rods ect. i want to try use an old hornby B12 4-6-0 Chassis and try incorporate it rather then assembling the chassis of the model as from what i heard from another beginner is the hardest part by far as the there is not room for error. its a bit big and a bit long but no point not trying! if not then ill try putting the kit together as its meant to! ill find out in the coming months.

 

Well while this wont work.....another strategy has come forth

 

Alex Duggan on facebook has started a Bandon tank 3d model designed for a B12 chassis that will be finished in the coming months no doubt. While its in the very early stages of testing right now. Its yet another step in the right direction for 3d printing. Of course while building a kit is much harder for somone of my experience to pull off this will be Much easier

 

Does anyone have any good photo's of the origional non belfair bandon tanks or anything that can help alex along with this undertaking? 

[Galteemore]

That’s looking most promising. Such impressive locos - classic BP lines.
 

As for the SSM chassis, there are a few jigs you can get which will help in assembly. Eg http://217.199.187.193/poppyswoodtech.co.uk/tools.html

As long as the axle holes and coupling rod holes are aligned, the chassis will roll. That’s the most critical thing. Everything else is just fiddling about, and a bit of patience. 

Edited March 26, 2021 by Galteemore

[Westcorkrailway]

Meanwhile on the rudimentary Clonakilty junction layout, my west cork freind hass finally finished no.34s decals and front buffer beam along with safter valves ect. I must compliment the job he did of it 

[jhb171achill]

In your second last pic, on the right there are a couple of coaches. Are those the SECR models?

If so, they bear a "two-foot-rule" resemblance to the post-1903 MGWR designs. At least one ex-Midland coach did, in fact, operated briefly on the CBSCR main line immediately before the railcars came.

[Galteemore]

That’s a fine job indeed that he’s done. Should be well pleased with that. Good old fashioned make it yourself modelling. 

[David Holman]

Great work and fine though the modern diesels are, it's lovely to see something different. Will there be some weathering added?

[Westcorkrailway]

12 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

In your second last pic, on the right there are a couple of coaches. Are those the SECR models?

If so, they bear a "two-foot-rule" resemblance to the post-1903 MGWR designs. At least one ex-Midland coach did, in fact, operated briefly on the CBSCR main line immediately before the railcars came.

They are southern bogey coaches of some description or another. Another thing in the works to make flying snail coaches out of them eventually

5 hours ago, David Holman said:

 Will there be some weathering added?

Eventually there will be. Although i enjoy the idea of one of these being painted like this for an IRRS special!

[Westcorkrailway]

Finnally got to run my A class in today, and hence was able to use my new fictional coaching stock and bulleid wagons glad to confirm that the A is in fact by far the most reliable locomotive ever run on my layout, even beating the extremely long wheelbase on my railcars.
 

 

My track is knackered from years of that LNER B12 thrashing it and never been cleaned. The A rounded it like it was floating on air

 

for comparison b121 stalled on the first 3 attempts I had on trying to move off. And C212 is running like a crossely in spirit, loud and spluttering all over the place and needing a burst of power in order to not stay with the heavy enough rake (not to mention half of it had plastic wheels!)

Edited November 7, 2021 by Westcorkrailway

[Galteemore]

Excellent. That A just floats along 

[Westcorkrailway]

Some permanent way work on the oval featuring a Swiss Army knife, great western railway wagon and bandon tank no.470 (or at least that’s what Lima would call a bandon tank back in the 1970s!)

[jhb171achill]

6 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Some permanent way work on the oval featuring a Swiss Army knife, great western railway wagon and bandon tank no.470 (or at least that’s what Lima would call a bandon tank back in the 1970s!)

Me oul eyesight is confused. Mirror image "snail", yet "GW" the right way round!

[jhb171achill]

Someone posted somewhere about wondering about a "commuter" service to Bandon prior to 1930 or thereabouts. So I dug out the 1926-30 working timetables tonight.

I had never heard of any such thing myself, unless perhaps in VERY early CBSC days.

So, perusal of above sources shows what I suspected; there is no commuter-type service in the 1920s at any rate - what there IS other than through trains to Kinsale, Clonakilty and Skibbereen is just one single working, which is that the 04:30 goods to Clonakilty Junction would return to Bandon, from where it added a brake coach to form an 09:00 MIXED to Cork. 

That seems to be the solitary working which conveyed passengers specifically between Bandon and Cork only (and points in between). 

In those days, there would have been no south-western Cork suburbs worthy of anything approaching an actual "commuter" service - mind you, today might be different if the line had survived - doubtless as a haven of ICRs or 2600s.

 

[Westcorkrailway]

 

CBSCR Fictional Layout 

 

hello all. At Cork Model Swap Meet,  I purchased an unfinished layout. The plan is to turn this into a fictional version of the Kinsale Branch, one where the Cork & Bandon railway was a far more profitable venture in the early days allowing for a more confident C&KJR.
 

Changes include:

 

Kinsale junction being far smaller and much further east and smaller with direct Cork-Kinsale 

 

The line follows a more direct path, just before the start of the 1/80 climb the railway takes a more wide turn. At the end of this line, roughly in line with the actual Ballymartle station, on the other side of the kinsale main road is this new fictional new station. After this the line descends into a tunnel before following mostly the same route into Kinsale. Another big change is that somewhere along the line (Probobly at the present day site of Kinsale golf club) there would be a big factory of some kind with its own industrial railway. 
 

 

The line won’t close in the 1930s but due to the better quality of line and factory traffic the line would continue. Passenger traffic along with steam haulage would come to and end in 1963, goods finally wrapping up in 1967.

 

 

Ballymartle have much more space then the real life equivalent but will be equally rural. It will have a signal box, a CBSC station building styled off ballinascarthy, ballinhassig and drimoleague, a goods shed similar to that of madore/Farrangalway.  
 

 

Edited December 2 by Westcorkrailway

[Westcorkrailway]

Planning progression.
 

 

 

Hoping to get Owen O’Niell to help with the station building, which is going to be identical in shoe to drimoleague, Ballinhassig and Desert stations in west cork. 
 

 

Anyone know some fonts for the old AA yellow enamel road signs or the newer white cast County Council signs?

Edited December 3 by Westcorkrailway

[Westcorkrailway]

Some buildings recently purchased 

 

[LNERW1]

Do you have photos of the layout as it is now?

[Westcorkrailway]

Here it is, a blank canvas! 

[Westcorkrailway]

Have I ruined it????

 

a repaint without disassembling it for fear it would snap. But I wanted it in cork colours 

[Galteemore]

Looks good to me! 

[jhb171achill]

44 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Looks good to me! 

 

54 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Have I ruined it????

 

a repaint without disassembling it for fear it would snap. But I wanted it in cork colours 

As it was, with green, it's in the standard GSR & CIE colours. While station "liveries" on most lines did not necessarily bear any relationship to those of their trains, i wouldn't be surprised if the CBSCR used green too - BUT - there's an exception to some rules, and this is one; around 1959/60, several West Cork stations were repainted a new way, along with several on other lines too - RED! So had Ballymartle survived until the end of the Wisht caark system, buy; it may well have ended up red! Up de rebels, boy!

[Westcorkrailway]

The first train to Ballymartle today. C212 with a Per Way train. 
 

 

[Patrick Davey]

Lovely!!  Shaping up well - love the deep cutting to the left.

[Westcorkrailway]

Stationmasters house started (based on that of Waterfall Co.Cork) but is not finished. I also put in a few small bits like the sign ect. 

Edited December 12 by Westcorkrailway