Niles

Our committee has organised a one day outing from Dublin by bus to visit the Difflin Lake Railway (home to Ireland's newest steam loco, 2003-vintage Duchess of Difflin) and Donegal Railway Heritage Centre. At the latter we hope to make a presentation using the proceeds from our previous outings towards the museum's fundraising efforts. Places are limited, details at https://www.tailtetours.com/hills-of-donegal-tour

We added a blog to the Táilte site a while back going through the history of the various termini Belfast has had (though already it's a tiny bit out of date ), https://www.tailtetours.com/post/a-virtual-tour-of-belfast-s-terminal-railway-stations-past-present

One observation from his reviews, they can be a bit one size fits all. For instance, I've seen him criticise big Pacifics over their slow shunting ability, when really it's not the type of thing the prototype would have excelled on either.

Sorry to hear that, drop me a message I'll see what we can do.

Great show, good to put a few faces to names too. Now to recover for tomorrow.

Yes, but what is life without sin.

The Cavan & Leitrim Railway have an appeal going for just that... https://www.cavanandleitrimrailway.com/bordnamona

No idea who wrote it, but they sound handsome...

Not my best photo, but you can just see the gangways made up between a 2600 and 2800 here.

Sorry just seen. Yes, I remember 8 car 2600s in action on the northern suburban in the mid 2000s though originally 4 was more common, but gangways were in use. They weren't unknown to run in multiple with 2800s on DSER line services and again the gangways were in use.

And the rest on the newbuild Woolwich?

Re: specials, Táilte did look at operating a tour taking in GVS but unfortunately resources and scheduled works precluded it this year, however we've had some nice chats with NIR people about the future...

Must be a record, Great Victoria Street will have had two 'last trains' in under 50 years.

On fictional liveries, someone (maybe it was on this group?) had one done up in freight grey, looked quite well I thought...

Apparently one of the rebuilt C&L carriages only re-entered traffic in November 1958—so it didn't even see six months in service post rebuild!