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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
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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.)
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Patrick Davey drew my attention to a wrong caption on the Archive from the late JW Armstrong of Kells on the Valencia Island branch which should have been Glenbeigh; now duly amended. Thanks Patrick! I do have a couple of Casserley negatives of Kells taken 21 years apart so have added them today. GSR 1934-07-11 Kells, 128. HCC Glass 11087 Cas25019. CIE 1955-04-14 Kells 127 RMC83272 Cas25100
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4 views from the latest acquisitions covering the CDRJC, SLNCR, CBSC & the GNRI at Enniskillen. CDRJC 1957 Donegal Town BR Type A container on bogie wagon. PFF304 CBSC 1957 - + Bantry Town waterside. PFF207. GNRI 1957-09-03 PP 44 & P 73 doublehead Omagh train. PFF233. SLNC 1957-09-03 Enniskillen 'Sir Henry'. PFF265. Note the chap - probably the fireman, perched on a plank between the loco and the wagon which presumably is loaded with coal but of somewhat dubious quality.