West Clare

corktina

I see Jackie Whelan got his planning permission

http://www.clarechampion.ie/moyasta-railway-museum-gets-green-light/

ClovenHoof

corktina wrote: »

I see Jackie Whelan got his planning permission

http://www.clarechampion.ie/moyasta-railway-museum-gets-green-light/

Good luck to him. It isn't perfect but the man give a **** and is doing something.

corktina

yes, easy to criticise but he got off his backside.

Judgement Day

To avoid a site ban - no comment.

corktina

I'd be incensed if you got a site ban as you also got off your backside

flyingsnail

For anybody interested in the details the full set of maps / drawings ect are on line here

http://193.178.30.218/clareeplan/FileRefDetails.aspx?file_number=14292&LASiteID=0

whisky_galore

Not my cup of tea or where I would like preservation on that site to go, but leave him off it's his baby.

Judgement Day

Probably not known by boardsies but the first vehicle to run on the 'new' West Clare Railway was lent gratis by the Irish Narrow Gauge Trust (aka Parks & Kennedy). C47 ex.Bord na Mona - Clonsast. Photos by the late Joe St.Leger.



In 1998 ex.West Clare trailer 47c was hired to Jackie Whelan. The deal was nearly scuppered by the other party in the INGT but I saw it through. However, eaten bread is soon forgotten and I cannot post the last conversation that I had with Mr.Whelan.

ClovenHoof

Judgement Day wrote: »

Probably not known by boardsies but the first vehicle to run on the 'new' West Clare Railway was lent gratis by the Irish Narrow Gauge Trust (aka Parks & Kennedy). C47 ex.Bord na Mona - Clonsast. Photos by the late Joe St.Leger.



In 1998 ex.West Clare trailer 47c was hired to Jackie Whelan. The deal was nearly scuppered by the other party in the INGT but I saw it through. However, eaten bread is soon forgotten and I cannot post the last conversation that I had with Mr.Whelan.

What led to this becoming Broad Gauge then?

whisky_galore

ClovenHoof wrote: »

What led to this becoming Broad Gauge then?

No room at the inn for the ITG, I guess, it's either Moyasta or an increasingly crammed Downpatrick.

corktina

room at the Inch I guess you mean? They pretty much got evicted didn't they?

Someone needs to bite the bullet and set up a proper broad gauge line , even if it's only a couple of hundred yards to start off, somewhere within 50 miles of Dublin.

Moyasta is all very well but it's so far out of the way, I've only ever been once many years ago, and I'm nearly next door in North Cork, not too far to the fwrry....

ClovenHoof

corktina wrote: »

room at the Inch I guess you mean? They pretty much got evicted didn't they?

Someone needs to bite the bullet and set up a proper broad gauge line , even if it's only a couple of hundred yards to start off, somewhere within 50 miles of Dublin.

Moyasta is all very well but it's so far out of the way, I've only ever been once many years ago, and I'm nearly next door in North Cork, not too far to the fwrry....

I am in West Cork and Moynasta might as well be in China.

Ideally a broad gauge preservation line should be accessible from the rail network. Mullingar to Athlone is perfect.

corktina

...was....

whisky_galore

corktina wrote: »

Someone needs to bite the bullet and set up a proper broad gauge line , even if it's only a couple of hundred yards to start off, somewhere within 50 miles of Dublin.

...someone should do something....

Judgement Day

Congratulations ^^^^^ the big 1,000!

metrovick001

Yes. Mullingar-Athlone does tick a few boxes alright. At least a start in Mullingar might at least be feasible with a platform in place etc.

ClovenHoof wrote: »

I am in West Cork and Moynasta might as well be in China.

Ideally a broad gauge preservation line should be accessible from the rail network. Mullingar to Athlone is perfect.

corktina

Greenway beng built as we speak. I think we can forget that line. There are plenty of former rail lines around, a project could start from bare bones on any one of them, t doesn't have to be an in situ railway line. See Downpatrick as an example of what can be acheived from nothing

whisky_galore

corktina wrote: »

room at the Inch I guess you mean? They pretty much got evicted didn't they?

Let's just say IE weren't crying into their hankies when they left.