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After consultation with the Household Authority in view of the weather forecast for this weekend the trip to the Ffestiniog Gala was called off and cancelled at 2am on Tuesday. An exciting alternative was then proposed that one should plaster up some holes in the living room wall where a radiator was removed a couple of years ago. However how about uploading a few more images!. These are from the early / mid 1960's. CIE 1967 CA Killarney 25j+092. CIE 1967 CA Killarney 25j+088. CIE 1967 ca Waterford 25j+077. CIE 1967 ca Mallow 25j+096.

I'm off to the Ffestiniog Gala on Thursday for 5 days so, as Madame has gone off to Beamish with our youngest daughter and year old twin grandchildren today; and I have done my chores, I will upload some more Casserley negs from 1955. I am supposed to be plastering in the kitchen however as it was ca 1978 the last time I got plastered I seem to have lost the knack! Claremorris to Ballina. CIE 1955-04-19 Claremorris 229 RMC26113 RMC 83480. CIE 1955-04-20 Ballyvary 599. RMC26101 RMC83488a. CIE 1955-04-20 Foxford RMC83487 Cas25180. CIE 1955-04-19 Ballina. RMC26106 RMC83484.

County Donegal Railways at Strabane today. CDRJC 1957 Strabane 14 with Phoenix adding wagons to its Letterkenny service. PFF372. CDRJC 1957 Strabane No 6 'Columbkille'. PFF293. CDRJC 1957 Strabane No 5 on Finn Vally goods. PFF298. CDRJC 1957 Strabane long goods arriving from Letterkenny. PFF287. CDRJC 1957 Strabane Booking Office. PFF295. CDRJC 1957 Strabane 18 + 20 in Letterkenny platform. PFF325.

GNRI 1950-05-17 Clones 57 HCC 72973 Cas25053. GNRI 1950-05-17 Clones 164 HCC 72972 Cas25052. GNRI 1950-05-17 Clones 203 HCC 72975 Cas25055.

Manulla Junction in April 1955, nowadays 2 points but at least its still there. CIE 1955-04-20 Manulla Junction RMC26103 RMC83490. CIE 1955-04-19 Manulla Junction 655 1.30 Westport - Athlone. RMC26114 RMS 83481. CIE 1955-04-19 Manulla Junction, 542, 11.25 Athlone - Westport. RMC26115 RMC83482.

In the photo the loco is already loaded onto the bogie Well wagon for transfer to the port. The tender body has been detached and is on another well wagon whilst the tender chassis awaits another wagon and there are timber frames to put round the cab. Its a small tender which were fitted to numbers 90 to 98 when these were built in small numbers over the years 1933 to 1937.

Derby Works had already worked out how to transport new locos to Ireland. This is a view of one of the 1933 built Class W 2-6-0's being prepared for shipment. I think this was an HC Casserley negative so I can probably find the exact date. EDIT. Not a Casserley Negative, Its a glass one I acquired in 2021 but I can't remember where it came from.

Memories! Takes me back 60 years to the East Coast Main Line in Northumberland. D9000 in a hurry to get back to Crewe from Heaton Open Weekend; this morning.

Sligo Leitrim & Northern Counties today. SLNC 1929-09-20 Sligo 'Blacklion' ex GNRI 118 HCC Glass 6324 Cas25007. SLNC 1950-05-18 Enniskillen 'Fermanagh' oou HCC72983 Cas25081. SLNC 1929-09-19 Manorhamilton ' Lough Gill '' HCC Glass 6322 Cas25005. SLNC 1929-09-19 Manorhamilton Coach No12 ,Asbbury 1899. HCC Glass 6320 Cas25010

A couple of interesting workings through Haltwhistle today, a welcome change from the usual diet of 156, 158 DMU's & Class 66 Locos. Sir Nigel Gresley & Royal Scots Grey. They were working to Newcastle Heaton Depot which is having an Open Weekend on the 20/21 September. as part of the Railways 200 years Celebrations. No need to go now ! I've seen the 2 that I might have gone to see. Last weekend I went to the Tanfield Railway which is actually celebrating its 300 years and says its is the World oldest as it still operates over part of the original trackbed (wooden wagonway then.)

GMK035 CIE 1961-04-xx Inchicore Up Home signal with square Board S4. GMK022 CIE 1961-04-xx Inchicore 'Sambo' L28. GMK010 CIE 1961-04-xx Inchicore TD112.

CIE 1961-06-05 Fenit Pier yj313. CIE 1961-06 Athlone West Junction Cabin yj328. CIE 1966-05-14 Ardee B159 yj321.

Not a picture but I've just been watching the Port Of Dublin Live webcam and 2 tugs are berthing a large empty Ore Carrier in the Dock where the Tara facility is. Has the rail traffic resumed?

HC Casserley from the 30's + Richard Casserley from 1955. SLNC 1929-09-20 Sligo 'Lissadell' HCC Glass 6323 Cas25008. GSR 1934-07-17 Westport. 530 HCC11201 Cas25166. DB&ST 1932-06-05 Embankment HCC8723 Cas25126. CIE 1955-04-14 Glenbeigh , 127. RMC83267 Cas25099.

A few images from steam days. CB&SC 1954-09-04 Drimoleague shed 470 KC. Track and turntable removed on dieselisation. second photo. CBSCR 1954-xx-xx Drimoleague 35 ref036 The branch train from Baltimore. third photo. Nameboard.

CBSC 1959 ca Drimoleague, C224 after arrival on service from Baltimore & Skibbereen. PFF396. BELOW. .CBSC 1959 ca Drimoleague, Goods & Skibbereen trains in main platforms Railcar on right. PFF387. Goods shed line behind platform line on left. Below. CBSC 1959 ca Drimoleague, Railcar for Bantry on right, Baltimore C224 on left. PFF397. Signal is down for the railcar to go to Bantry. Below. CBSC 1957 - + Drimoleague C202 on goods.PFF204. Photo taken from the footpath which appears to have been the only access for passengers to the station. The official route to the lefthand platform would have been over the footbridge but no doubt many people would just use the foot crossing in front of the loco.

A 'Special' post this week on Drimoleague ex CB&SCR station as I have acquired a fair number of 'new' negatives. I have got out the coloured felt tips and done a track plan useing the Geohive IE old 25" map to to provide a footprint so everything is in the right place. It would make an interesting model layout but now I have been evicted from the Loft I don't have the room or the will to start again. The way the tracks and points are positioned means that one could actually build the layout as a double track 'roundy-roundy' by utilising the long sidings at the Banty and Cork ends to double the tracks. On examing photos I can't locate a signal controling the middle platform road which was used as a terminal line for trains to and from Skibbereen/Baltimore - possibly there was only a ground signal here. Photos to follow.

Enniskillen today. GNRI 1957-09-03 Enniskillen U 201 comes off train from Dublin.PFF234. GNRI'SLNC 1957 ca Enniskillen AL probably No 59 shunting. Railbus 2A PFF217 Not sharp unfortunately. GNRI 1957-09-26 Enniskillen 204 ,PFF009.

I think it was a Power Station but the only reference I can find is a sentence in Patterson's L&LSR book which mentions that the railway originally had a signal box at the level crossing into Pennyburn . This stood on the North East side and was demolished to make way for a Power Station.

Irish Sugar 1960-xx-xx Thurles K12663'35 JGD600610. L&LSR 1949 CA Owencarrow viaduct after closure JGD5415 ref25j+006. L&LS 1952-06-16 Pennyburn, Derry 15 Mck025

GMK038 GNRI Connolly 1961-04-xx S4. GMK037 GNRI 1955-07 Connolly Shunt signals. GMK039 CIE 1961-04-xx Inchicore ex GNRI JT 91 L25.

C&M 1934-07-09 Blarney Castle 8K, 12.05 from Cork. HCC11061 Cas25145. CIE 1955-04-26 Palace East 111 RMC83677 Cas25202. CIE 1955-04-26 Macmine Junction, RMC83675 Cas25201. CIE 1962-09-xx DFublin Amiens St B124 on Radio Train j155.

Thanks, I had my doubts about the original details on the negative sleeve that it wasn't Killybegs but I couldn't find any other views, Title amended.

I have a couple more of the Killybegs station interior; its different wagons in the photos. It's probably best to upload these to flickr now to make its easier to find them. Also a a view of the Donegal Town Goods shed road side. CDRJC 1957 Killybegs Trainshed interior. PFF276. CDRJC 1957 Killybegs inside station roof. PFF305. CDRJC 1957 Killybegs Goods shed. PFF275 EDITED now corrected to Donegal Town

The first view is Waterford coal stage which was the sheds somwhat less elaborate version of that at Cork with its overhead gantry and Pat delivering coal from the wharf. Here the railway ran adjacent to the River Suir with a number of landing stages and the coal stage appears to have had an elevated passage from the river landing and coal storage deck. CIE 1964-xx CA Waterford Coal stage 186 yj059. 2nd view Enniskillen , note the bread container at the rear of the Omagh train on the left. GNRI 1957-09-03 Enniskillen 196 arrives from Derry. PFF228. 3rd view Killybegs station with a view looking through the train shed.. CDRJC 1957-09-27 Killybegs train shed interior lkg W. PFF331. last view. CBSC 1959-06-02 Clonakilty Junction C225 Bantry - Cork goods. PFF063