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By leslie10646 · Posted
Thanks, @seagoebox. The Grand Tour is well covered by my "Lance King in the South" talk, which was the first of a series of four talks which I put together. To illustrate No.801 in colour on the Tour I had to rely on David Soggee's one colour slide of it - he was chasing the tour by car with a few friends one of whom was David Lawrence, whose photo you have shown - Davis must have been standing beside his namesake! David Soggee's input greatly added to Lance's shots, as he, Lance, was on the train! Lance only took black and white that morning, as the light was so poor. The IRRS collection may have them, I must look them up. While we have catalogued a lot of the colour, the B&W is a job still to do! Can you offer an answer to Dave's question as to which "800" did the highest mileage? -
801 appeared very briefly on the 1961 "Grand Tour"... Monday 5th June 1961 departing Cork at 8.15am, including a photo stop at Blarney (8.32-8.35) arriving at Mallow at 8.57. There the train headed by J15 no 131 departed at 9.10 and travelled the Kerry Road to Newmarket, Kanturk, Castleisland, Tralee & Fenit, arriving at Limerick that evening, 12 hours later at 8.30pm The post-railtour blurb published by the IRRS/ RCTS and SLS very briefly described 801's run as.... "This was a soft morning, No. 801 starting up the bank from Glanmire Road shrouded in rain and steam. The view of this large 4-6-0 entering Blarney shows clearly the extent to which she outstripped all the other locomotives in size and apparent power. At Mallow she was replaced by J15 No. 131..." -
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By leslie10646 · Posted
802 was withdrawn in 1955, 801 in 1957, but was used from Cork to Mallow on a leg of the 1961 "Grand Tour". @seagoebox is the man to answer this!
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