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Irish railfans News January 1961 Vol 7, no 1, page 13 states.. " Some of the vehicles destined for Belfast Transport Museum have been seen en-route at Portadown. Loco no 2 Blanche replaced loco no 1 Alice, but the list in our October 1960 issue is otherwise unchanged." 

The IRRS Journal Vol 6, no 28, Spring 1961 page 51/52 was even more vague saying just that "no 2 went to the Belfast Transport Museum"

Yes, 104 had loaded in Poyntzpass earlier that day, discharged ballast at Killeen near the top of the bank, and ran empty wrong road to Dundalk to run round before returning the wagons to the Pass, and loco. LE to Portadown. In those days the only cross-overs were at Poyntzpass and Dundalk.

Michael

Cross-Border visits by the NIR MV's were rare, this pic of 104 is from March 1994

NIR 106/ CIE 227 not looking so good at Cahirciveen in June 1998

The older weedspray van and train at Waterford

Spraying at New Ross, ready for the return back to Waterford

The mixer unit and internal tank 

There are three colour plates of MGWR interest in the Railway Magazine...

A nice loco portrait of 129 "Celtic" in MGWR blue livery, Vol 11, 1902

129 again, this time in Green, hauling a train of brown coaches on the Limited Mail in Vol 31, 1912

no 6 "Kylemore" locomotive portrait, in very dark blue/black, Vol 41, 1917

A few jottings about New Ross from Irish Railfans News...

A new covered shed for the loading of cattle was under construction at New Ross in December 1962

A new siding opened at Stafford's Wharf beside the Albatross fertilizer factory in December 1964, costing £7250 !

New Ross signal cabin closed 18th April 1966, the branch from Waterford being worked on an "one engine in steam" basis.

The footbridge from New Ross was re-erected at Rosslare Strand in late 1967 ( the steps on the old footbridge at Rosslare Strand partially collapsed on 23rd July 1967 when being used by mystery train passengers !)

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According to the CDR appendix to the WTT  documents dated  1st June 1923 and 1st  June 1950, the arrivals platform at Derry accommodated 10 carriages, same as Clady, Killygordon & Ballintra, The longest platform was Rossnowlagh at 12 coaches.

The book "The Irish Narrow Gauge in Colour", by Norman Johnston, published by Colourpoint in 2003 has 13 colour pictures of the L&LSR.

This one is also very useful...

Dromore

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The train involved was the 21.20 mail ex Cork, staff loading the mail train vans at Cork would write on the coach bodyside in chalk what mails were to go in which van, so the bags could be easily located for unloading/sorting at stations along the line. The 21.20 stopped at Mallow, Charleville, Kilmallock, The Junction,  Thurles, Ballybrophy, Portlaoise and Portarlington, taking 6 hours! Sometimes the instructions on the van could read, Mallow mails back right, Charleville mails back left etc, depending on volumes.

As Leslie correctly said a few posts back, lets get this thread back on track !!

In JRL Currie's David & Charles book, The Northern Counties Railway Vol 1, published way back in 1973, there are 20 or so pages of history and background to this relatively unknown line.

The book produced post-WW2 "The LMS NCC operating dept. in wartime" contains interesting information about activities at DC stations.

Inchicore overall grey lives on.. on the 071's, strange how some things stay the same !

According to the CIE "classification of coaching stock" index dated 1st February 1961...

Vans 2549 - 2558, all built 1960

63' 11" buffer to buffer

60' 0" over headstocks

10' maximum width

12' 10 and a quarter inches maximum height

10 ton max distributed load (later reduced to 6 tons)

Ben,

Sorry, no article on Mark 3's in this issue, vol 15, no. 97, I will look for an article and let you know.