West Cork Railway DVD's
West Cork Railway DVD, Southern Ireland
West Cork Railway
West Cork Railways 1958, 1959 & 1961
Price: £18.00 including P&P
The material for this video, all colour - cine and still - was shot over the years 1958, 1959 & 1961 and is not sufficient to form a full and historical account of a system that emerged from the Cork & Bandon Railway and the Cork, Bandon & South Coast Railway. Nevertheless, it was felt it could be of interest to people who knew the system and people with a general interest in Irish railways. The programme deliberately does not set out to be a source of reference but simply a shared record of a once proud railway system. Brian's own railway interest stemmed from the fact his father spent his working life on the West Cork - apart from a short time in Charleville - and his final appointment was Station Master at Bandon. This video is very much one railway lovers trip down memory lane with the people and places he knew since childhood. Brian has edited and narrated the programme. After production and distribution costs all profit is being donated to the Railway Children charity. Reg. charity 1058991
Price: £18.00 including P&P
West Cork Railway - Volume 2
Too good to be forgotten
Price: £20.00 including P&P
This is a sequel to "West Cork Railways 1958, 1959 & 1961" and is only possible because of the generosity of the Irish Railway Record Society (IRRS) giving us permission to use their unique and very valuable archive film. Apart from four minutes of black & white, all the material is in colour, cine and still. The scenes range from harvesting and transporting the sugar beet crop to Mallow factory, Sunday excursions to Courtmacsherry, IRRS special trains on the 20th August 1960 to Courtmacsherry and on the 17th March 1961 (fourteen days before the network closed) to Clonakilty and Baltimore. This is followed by some detail of the sad sight of the track being recovered and hauled back to Cork. Remote, physically, from the Irish national system for over half of its existence, the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway had the virtue of being able to develop its very own character and, indeed, charm. For more than a hundred years it catered for the unique traffic requirements of the beautiful and sometimes wild landscapes of West Cork. It had six termini on the Atlantic seaboard, four of which survived long enough to be featured in this programme which uses unpublished archive film kindly made available by the IRRS. We cover the whole system, including the unique link through the busy streets of Cork city, all forms of motive power, excursion traffic, the hectic workings of sugar beet trains and day-to-day operations. The system was regarded with much affection by those who grew up with it, worked on it, and used it. The lines inspired fond memories in the comparatively few visitors who came from farther afield. Brian Baker has narrated and edited the programme.
After production and distribution costs all profit is being donated to the Railway Children Charity. (Reg 1058891 www.railwaychildren.org.uk) and the IRRS, Irish Railway Records Society.
Price: £20.00 including P&P
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Charities Helped
Volume No. 1
www.railwaychildren.org.uk
Railway Children supports street children living alone and at risk on the streets. We help children all over the world, many of whom live in and around railway stations (hence the name).
Volume No. 2
www.railwaychildren.org.uk
Railway Children supports street children living alone and at risk on the streets. We help children all over the world, many of whom live in and around railway stations (hence the name).
IRRS, Irish Railway Records Society.