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No. 81  Carrickfergus Castle was hired by the GN on 1st May 1952, until replaced by no 72 on 12th March 1954 which stayed until 29th September 1954, working mostly Belfast to Clones.

The last WTT to have "FTD" to Derry was dated 3rd June 1996

Nice 8- page article in Rail Archive no 3 "The Rise and Fall of the STEAM RAIL MOTOR"

The GSR Clayton cars were well covered in the Railway Gazette, 2nd November 1928

4 hours ago, Galteemore said:

A fair number in the companion GSWR book, but these vary enormously in utility for modelling purposes - not all are dimensioned. @seagoebox will be able to advise! 

175 photos (incl. 5 in colour!)

48 drawings/ diagrams

6 maps

246 pages

hardback

8 chapters, 7 appendices, bibliography & index

(Very limited number of Locomotives of the GS&WR are also available from Transport Treasury as well )

The Public Record Office in Belfast has (had?) the GNR(I) bridge books for their area.

Patrick..... a very useful L&LSR exploration guide is attached...

On 21/3/2026 at 7:04 PM, airfixfan said:

Collected a copy today and have emailed the BRILL editor

A very poor, and vague article, lots of errors... why oh why did the author or the editors of British railways Illustrated Magazine let this one through without somebody with the most basic knowledge check it first?  Since when did Portrush become Port Rush?, "RPSI Tri-composite coach no 861 is associated with the NCC  as it was used in departmental liveries of both CIE and UTA", what is that about?????????... now where are my blood pressure tablets!

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The Model railway Society of Ireland are having an open day at the Old Fire Station, Dorset Street Upper, Dublin D01F6V8 on Saturday 21st March 10am to 2pm.

There will be 0 gauge running, bring along anything you like....

I have the following RPSI 5'3",  Five Foot Three Magazines free to a good home. (date range  1970 - 2017)

Located in Co. Louth collection or free delivery to Dublin or Belfast by arrangement or postage at cost from UK or RoI................

9  17  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47  48  49  50  52  53  54  55  57  58  62  

All IRRS Journals now gone.......

I have the following IRRS Journals.... date range Autumn 1957 - Feb 1996

Free to a good home, they are in Co. Louth, free delivery by arrangement to Dublin or Belfast, or postage at cost.

Numbers... 21  29  31  32  33  35  36  40  43  44  45  46  47  48  52  53  54  56  57  58  59  60  61  62  63  64  65  67  68  69  70  71  72  73  74  75  76  77  78  79  80  81  82  83  84  85  86  87  88  89  90  91  92  93  94  95  96  97  98  99  100  101  102  103  104  106  107  108  109  110  111  112  113  114  115  116  117  118  119  121  122  123  124  125  126  127  128  129  

I think it was a BUT...

You are all a bit wide of the mark.... MED's, CIE Park Royals, BUT cars went into the quarry at Crosshill near Crumlin.

It was the cab end of 80 class driving trailer No. 741, damaged beyond repair in a firebomb attack at Balmoral 19.9.1979

These two pictures were taken at Magheramorne (note spelling !) on 18.5.1980 after the rest of it was scrapped.

The cab end was kept in case it might be needed for accident repair, it was not and was cut up at Magheramorne.

1st September 1897, Adare (dep 10am) to Newtownstewart (arr 8pm), 4th September Newtownstewart to Newtownards via Derry/ Londonderry & Belfast. The BNCR provided their coaches, nos 8&9 from Waterside to Newtownards, the BCDR provided their specially bult saloon (no 153) for a day trip from Newtownards to Newcastle and return on the 6th,  also for the last leg from Newtownards to Belfast on the 8th.

There is an article "Royal Travel in Ireland" by DB McNeill in the IRRS Journal, vol 16, (October 1988) pages 426- 446 & 455

Some details of specific vehicles for each company are written up there.

Platform 6 !

Cattle, Pigs, Sheep, Horses

In reply to POL_PMB's post of earlier, I attach some bumph from NIR's Blue n Grey launch....

The very extensive (compared to today) menu was all cooked up by Mella in the kitchen of 547!

From "The Locomotive" May 1903

A couple of MGWR horseboxes, 5m at Albert Quay, May 1960 and 32m at The Broadstone (solebar is marked Inchicore 7-1930)

The key with the red arrow is to lock/ unlock the shutter door on the outside of a gangway at the end of the old-fashioned carriage.

The smaller key is correctly identified as a gas shut off key.

Here we have an undated list of sidings on the CIE network. The only clue to possible date is on page 2 where a siding for Goulding at Sligo is "being installed"

The first regular timetabled cross-Border use of the 2600's was with the introduction of the new timetable on 15th May 1995 (although it had been running for a few weeks prior)  A set of 2600's (usually 3 x 2) left Dundalk on Sundays at 17.10 to Portadown arr. 17.55. The set then returned to Connolly as the 18.10 calling at Newry, Dundalk and Drogheda (plus Mosney 21st May to 27th Aug).

Around this time passenger numbers were steadily increasing between Belfast and Dublin, this railcar working was designed to ease pressure on the already heavily loaded 18.15 from Belfast, the railcar continued on this roster until the new timetable on 1st September 1997 when a new 17.30 from Belfast replaced the railcar working, calling at Portadown at 18.15/17 and taking much the same path to Connolly. 

These three images were taken at 1) Poyntzpass, 2) Portadown, 3) departing Portadown for Connolly on Sunday 8th May 1995

Colm was also a regular contributor to Railway Magazine...