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Given the provenance of the previous project, we have much to look forward to!

Observed (if that the word) and travelled behind B201 class over several years on Dublin suburban and the Drogheda line. During the early 70s sometimes took the train (Saturday afternoons) from Connolly to visit the late George Hannah Malahide model/art shop. The regular consist appeared to be a B201, 3 coaches (Inchacore 51-53 stock) and BGSV (conversion of Bredin/Inchacore 51-53 stock) with working steam heating! Worked close to the line (at various locations) between late 70s and mid 80s.  One striking memory is of an apparent procession of Southbound B201 hauled bulk cement (bubble) trains passing Howth Junction on a saturday afternoon, another was watching B201s noisely approaching/departing Tara St and crossing the Loop Line viaduct during the evening 'rush hour" from the vantage point of one of the upper floors of the (12 storey)Hawkins House.  Final memories of B201 Class were of a number of survivors on Pilot Duty at the North Wall during visits to Ireland during the late 80s, earlier I remember large numbers of 'stopped" 001 & B201 at Inchacore following the comissioning of the DART. Although mainly associated with Dublin suburban services at one stage both the Maybach and GM re-motored B201 Class locos regularly worked main line passenger and freight workings. The Maybachs regularly worked Dublin-Limerick (via Nenagh) passenger services and bulk cement trains from Castle Munget.  A GM re-motored B201 was rostered to a Dublin-Tralee passenger service before the class was concentrated on Dublin suburban services. The higher power output of the 645 engine and steadier riding of its swing link bogies, may have give a B201 a slight advantage over a B141 on high speed passenger work. (the flexicoil bogies considered to be one of the weak points of the B121,141.181 Classes) Drogheda appears to have regularly rostered B201s on freight duties, incl. Drogheda-Dublin Bulk and Bagged Cement trains (H & ex GN cement vans), Ardee and Navan-Kingscourt workings. The final Ardee branch goods appears to have been worked by a B201, while there is an account in an IRRS journal paper of a loco swap between 001 & B201 hauled gypsum trains at Navan. Apparently a 001 was rostered to an early morning Drogheda-Kingscourt and its laden return working, a B201 to a second mid-late morning working. The B201 scheduled to cross 001 on the laden return working at Navan.  The crews (and 'control") agreed to swap locos at Navan as the 001 would be more capable than a B201  of hauling the heavier/longer second gypsum train over the more heavily graded Navan-Kingscourt section. 

Old photo of Dromore's railway men.

Thanks for posting all the fantastic photos fellas 👍