Freeware models of Irish narrow-gauge railways - and much more - for Trainz Railway Simulator

Models by Ricky Sykes and Steve Flanders, railway histories by Joe Begley.
(kuids: 254127 and 169585)

All parts of our website and all of our models are now directly accessible from our 'one-stop shop' menu which appears at the top-left of every page.

I am very sorry to have to announce that Ricky died on the 24th August. As you may have been aware he had been seriously ill since last October, when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Ricky and I set up Irish Narrow Gauge for Trainz in early 2006. He always concentrated on the modelling while I did the animation and other bits needed to get them running in Trainz. He really enjoyed the challenges and we quickly built up a long-distance friendship between his home in Hull and mine in Belfast. We never met, but exchanged emails every day, often quite a few times each day. Ricky's modelling interests ranged far beyond the Irish narrow gauge. We produced a range of GWR broad gauge vehicles, for example, and, just recently, we had started making a collection of very early plateway locos and rolling stock. I will miss his friendship, humour and good common sense very much. He was a real mate!

If you would like to send a message I will pass it on to Ricky's wife, Maureen. Just email me.

I will post again when I've thought out what to do next.

Last updated: 24th August, 2008

We make our models for Trainz 2004 but they will probably work OK in Trainz 2006. There may be a problem if you are running Trainz Classics as we utilise some of the Trainz 2004 built-in content in our models, such as enginesound files, which may not have shipped with Trainz Classics. Where possible, if the relevant files are 3rd-party creations, we will try to provide access to them either by hosting the files as cdps on this site on our guest page, or by providing a direct link to the author's own site. We will not be able to provide this service if the files are part of the built-in content authored by Auran and we would suggest you consider purchasing a copy of Trainz 2004, readily available at very reasonable prices on Ebay.

A video of Ballyshannon station showing our CDR rolling stock is on YouTube.

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Do you have a special request, a prototype that you'd like to see modelled? We're happy to add it to our wish list. If you have plans and/or photographs that would be great. We can't guarantee if/when we'll model them but at least they'll be 'on the list'! Just send us an email.

All of our models are released as freeware for everyone to enjoy. They remain the property of their creators. We do not to make our Gmax files available and we do not permit reskinning of our models. For further details see our policy page. We do not undertake commissions but if you would like to suggest a model to add to our wish list then please email us - drawings and plans are especially useful as well as photos.


If you enjoy our models and wish to make a donation please send it to:

County Donegal Railway Restoration Ltd
The Old Station House, Donegal Town, Co. Donegal, Ireland

The home of Drumboe, coach 28, trailer 5, railcar 14 etc., etc.