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A day earlier this week as I am out tomorrow and next weekend I am also off to the Ffestiniog Gala. A selection of some rather grotty slides taken at Derry Foyle Road shed 28 December 1964. 26J259 UTA ex GNR, 1964-12-28 Derry Foyle Road shed 37 shunting. 26J264 UTA ex GNR, 1964-12-28 Derry Foyle Road shed 63. 26J262 UTA ex GNR, 1964-12-28 Derry Foyle Road shed 44 & 37 in yard. 26J260 UTA ex GNR, 1964-12-28 Derry Foyle Road shed 44.

Nothing to do with Irish layouts although some work has been done on the small extension to Four Masters Bridge. Found these 2 whilst I was trying to sort out the negative heap. Achintoul, based on Highland Railway practice in BR Diesel Days at Morpeth Show in December 1986, 40 years ago and I now have lighter hair and more on my chin. Isenthal was our first Swiss layout and ended as a snow scene as I didn't like the ballast, Oxclose Washington Show March 1988. Both these clubs and Shows long defunct.

26J117 CDRJC Ballyshannon 'Drumboe' with ECS for Rossnowlagh and then Excursion back to Strabane. ca 1957. 26J139 GNRI Tynan station 606 ca1953. 26J141 CIE Woodenbridge 186 11 Sept 1971. 26J140 CIE Athenry ca 1955.

yj244 CIE 1966-05-14 Nobber 49 yj244. yj250 CIE 1982-09-13 Howth 216 yj250. yj251 CIE 1982-06-27 Little Island 183 yj251. yj245 CIE 1961-06-05 Listowel 131 yj245.

Nice to see the Bauma photos but I see its had a modernisation makeover, no goods yard , proper platforms and fences everywhere. The only 'improvement' is the new train shed. phots from 2001 and 2009. The 2-8-0t in the last photo banked the Hinwil train up the hill out of the station.

26J099 GNRI Howth, 62 Sept 1957. 26J097 GNRI Enniskillen UG 49 Sept 1957 26J101 GNRI Newtownbutler, 42 takes the loop to cross a railcar Sept 1957. 26J100 GNRI Bundoran, 201 Sept 1957.

1936 according to Norman Johnston Locomotives of the GNRI Page 130

I walked the South Ramp back in April 2001. We were surprised by supposedly retired Ae8/8 273 which had been re-instated to power work trains up to the Base Tunnel site at Goppenstein. This is a video still near Lalden and a better shot at Brig later that day.

Late running International trains have always been a problem. I was at Buchs intending to travel on a train from Vienna Austria which ran on to Zurich and Brugg where I was staying and eventually Basel. However it was several hours late and another traveller began to panic that she was going to miss her flight from Zurich. The driver of a goods train heard of her plight and invited the dozen awaiting passengers to climb aboard his Ae6/6 loco and he could take us on to Sargans where we could catch a Chur to Zurich Flughafen express. I made a bee-line for the front cab along with 4 or 5 others and started videoing. Off we went to Sargans but unfortunately the Express got there before us and didn't wait. Never mind, all aboard the goods train again and we sped off to Ziegelbrucke where the station staff escorted us over the running lines to an awaiting 450 set. The good old days!.

GNRI Fintona Junction & Fintona Tram today. 26J104 GNRI Fintona Junctio 12 . Sept 1957. 26J105 GNRI Fintona Junction UG 49 Sept 1957. 26J106 GNRI Fintona Horse Tram ca 1957. 26J103 GNRI Fintona Tram Sept 1957.

CIE 1955-04-13 Cobh Junc. RMC83244 Cas25092. CIE 1955-04-13 Poss at Cobh Junc poss coach 3m RMC83239 Cas25090. CIE 1955-04-14 Cahirciveen, 127 RMC83280 Cas25104. CIE 1955-04-12 Waterford yard 116. RMC26018 RMC 83187.

Checked out the Journal Article and a photograph in it appears to confirm that there was not a turntable or siding to it just some bushes. The article says that a turntable was planned but never built.

I would ignore this trackplan it bears little resemblance to that in the photographs. The goods shed, main platform, loco shed siding are all in the wrong place and it also shows another loop. l also have on flickr the station building after closure which shows the platform construction details and also the door/window details of the building originaly hidden by the overall roof.

Another 7 images of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway today - trying to get the uploading queue down - worse than the NHS (well no!) 26J073 L&LSR Bridge End station ca1950. 26J074 L&LSR 20 Graving Dock ca1950. 26J077 L&LSR Pennyburn yard ca1950. 26J075 L&LSR Tooban Junction ca 1950. 26J085 L&LSR Tooban Junction ca1950. 26J087 L&LSR Fahan ca1950 4-8-4t on goods. 26J088 L&LSR Buncrana ca1950.

The Geohive 25" Map for ca1900 doesn't show the line but I have a neg taken by a tourist. The photo doesn't show the total track plan. Here is a rather poor blow-up of a negative taken in 1938 from the Hill. There was a further siding serving a cattle bank (cattle wagons on it) plus a loco shed at the station throat. I am not sure if that is a hedge to the left of the shed or another siding possibly with a small turmtable hidden by the shed