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  1. That's a new one on me, but of a piece with other schemes that seem to have been floated in the mid-1970's. Aside from Blue Pullmans, CIE looked at re-engining the Sulzers, and I was also told by someone who would know that they looked at buying redundant Westerns from BR. I'm sure the new 071's they did go for would have seemed quite pricy given the times, but haven't they got their money's worth out of them since!
  2. When the carriages were newly repainted/refubished, the set would be all Galway livery, 5 standards, buffet, standard, gen van. As the Mk.2 air con ran down, the Galway carriges could turn up in ones or twos, mixed in with IE livery carriages.
  3. BSGSV

    Murphy Models Mk2d

    When Mk.2 air-conditioned stock came to the Sligo links, they got a composite (still with 1st, and between the gen van and the buffet) in each of the two sets, plus buffet and 4 or 5 standards. The Rosslare sets were all standard, and shorter, so probably more helpful as regards as 4-5 carriage train, including gen van. Ex-composites often turned up as one of the three or so standards, with gen van and buffet.
  4. It had cabs both ends, so far as I know. I thought one problem was a relatively low seating capacity, and another was that it wasn't that mechanically reliable.
  5. Adavoyle was replaced by a new "cabin" (a hut) at Meigh. Adavoyle was apparently inconvenient if a northbound freight was stopped at it, as it was not handy restarting on the rising gradient. Meigh was easier in that regard and also covered the level crossing.
  6. The Up Home at Adavoyle does seem to have been been for sighting, as there's a farmer's overbridge not far north of the station. The station appears to have been built c1892, which would explain the integration of the signal cabin in the structure. Quite why the station was built at all, and not just an intermediate cabin, has always puzzled me.
  7. Finally, a decent photo of one of the ten suburban compos, with the 3+3 second class seating, that became brake standards later. Many thanks.
  8. Great photo, particularly nice for me in showing the EMD Worksplate was the blue/red version, rather than the grey I had thought was in use by the time they appeared. As for the train, from Irish Railfans' News:
  9. The semaphore signalling on the ex-DSE side of Amiens Street was replaced in 1934 (commissioned 28/10/34), so the loco is probably less than a year old, given there is no sign of any replacement colour lights, which would have been installed before October.
  10. I'm pretty sure that's Claremorris, with the two old cabin tops on the Goods Yard side of the station.
  11. I thought the leading carriage looked to be a Harty GSR-built corridor third (flat sides), but I enlarged the photo and don't see any truss rods, so more probably a 1339 series CIE built corridor third (second by 1971). On a separate note, the Suburban Park Royals only seem to have got TL cabling c1980/1 or so.
  12. And given Attymon - Athenry only got double-tracked c1905, it only lasted, such as it was, for 20-odd years.
  13. Not having a dig at you or Mr. Hajducki. Given we all make mistakes, it's no surprise that books have them too!
  14. I'm not aware of there ever being a cabin at Lavistown, I think it was always only two single lines running in from Carlow and Waterford to Kilkenny, together. Navan Junction to Kingscourt Junction was, for a short time, a proper double-track line, with a cabin at Kingscourt Junction. Like a lot of cabins probably over-provided during the installation of block working and interlocking, (post-Regulation of Railways Act 1889), Kingscourt Junction had a short life. Harpers block was installed Newry King Street to Bridge Street c1907, so the double-track was from Newry North to Bridge Street. The Belfast Central was double from Central cabin to East Bridge too.
  15. On the MGWR, Collooney MGW station to Sligo was double-tracked, except for a short stretch from Collooney Junction to Carrignagat Junction. On the GNRI, Portadown - Trew & Moy was double, the section from there to Dungannon had a tunnel, so stayed single, so far as I know. Dungannon to Donaghmore also got doubled I think. Newry North to King Street was also double.
  16. Do you know if this a bad sign for the coach or is this just the normal state?
  17. The point rodding run doesn't seem to correspond with Athlone East. It does look like the west end of the layout at Mullingar West, see this photo only you're facing the other way: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1405587800190989&set=gm.2486712704815406&idorvanity=171953576291342
  18. The Mk.2d was vacuum braked, and the Galway trains had a vacuum braked TPO included for mails. The other Mk.2 stock was air braked, as well as having windows with ventilators, and wasn't in service in 1990, only appearing later. The Up train from Galway might have had problems, and not arrived in time to form the down Cork service, so a scratch set may have been sent instead, formed of whatever was to hand that wouldn't mess up the following day's diagrams.
  19. From the sounds of the above, unless you were on the 05:20 Cork-Heuston (which does not seem likely for someone on honeymoon), then Cork to Dublin should have been Mk3's. The Dublin-Cork train at 20:40 or so, should have had the Mk.2's which came up from Cork at 05:20 (and went to Galway and back during the middle of the day). It does sound like something was wrong if you had Cravens, which would be the bet for a backup, and the only carriages with the windows you describe allowed down the Dublin to Cork mainline in 1990.
  20. Sorry to be a pain, but the Alphagraphix's kit is for the type of cabin put up by the GNRI in the 1890's, 1900's. The cabin design changed in the early 1910's to a new, (similar) design. Dublin Amien's St. was built in c1923 to replace Dublin Central , which was destroyed in the Civil War, to the later design. The interior photo was taken in 1959, and shows a lot of empty space at the far end of the operating room. Originally the locking frame was much longer, as the cabin also controlled the GSR lines, from the GSR Loop line platforms, towards North Strand Junction. However, when the GSR took over control themselves (on West Road opening), the GNRI frame was shortened.
  21. At the time Cyril Fry got those, 1442 would have been without the heaters, as they only came in the 1970's. 2651 is an AEC Railcar, one of the last of the "main line" ones.
  22. 1968 is about when the Free School Transport scheme came in. CIE did not get much (if any) warning, and were left scrambling to get vehicles together to meet the demand. This included both postponing withdrawals and buying some secondhand/withdrawn half-cab single decks from the UTA, to tide them over until the Bedford SS class could be produced. Perhaps the buses in the background are some of those?
  23. I think they are electric wires going to the signal lamps, instead of having oil. That looks like B234 in the background. If so, it's late-60's rather than early?
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