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This image looks familiar today! Loughrea 22 May 1963

Courtmacsherry shed 29 August 1960. GNRI Belturbet Signal Box & JT 90 2 April 1956. Irish Sugar loco but where?

The house is still being re-wired but should be finished this week when I should then be able to access my PC. The good news is that I have finally received some 119 negatives taken by Nick Nicholson and WAC Smith in the early 1950's and I have scanned them in on my Lap Top. Almost all of them were taken in the area Strabane - Omagh -Clones Cavan Belturbet Enniskillen Glenfarne Manorhamilton Ballyshannon and Donegal Town. Cavan ex M&GWR C212 23 September 1957. SLNCR Enniskillen at Enniskillen with the train crew and staff 21 September 1957. 'Enniskillen & 'Lough Melvin crossing at Glenfarne 8 June 1957.

VS 207 on an IRRS Special at Cork, Glanmire Road 17 March 1962. A bit, well a lot poorer quality than JG Dewings slide above; 154 at Ennis 16 August 1994. These 2 need the locations idenified. Unknown F6 at unknown location er photographer unknown , probably ca 1961. EDIT Inchicore and F6 42. Similar lack of information on this ex GNRI 4-4-0 . I think it might possibly be Derry .

Limerick G3 291 July 1955. CB&SCR Cork Rocksavage EX GS&WR C4 31 ca 1927 County Donegal Railways, Strabane, River Mourne Bridge after closure but before track lifting 26 May 1960. Ballyshannon, Railcar 15 26 May 1957.

I'm trying to dream about what I can build in a 10 feet x 2 feet space to replace Glengarriff but my dreams always end in nightmares about the up-coming re-wiring!

About 10 feet x 2 feet overall but it might be possible to extend into my 'den' which will double this but at the moment things are chaotic as I havn't experienced a re-wiring whilst we are living in it. The 009 scale layout however shouldn't be affected.

Glengarriff closed suddenly today due to the impending re-wiring of the house being brought forward from next Spring to next Monday! The loft needs to be cleared to facilitate this and the local Authority has decreed that basically I am too decrepit to be climbing all those stairs and once everything has been renovated she says I can build a new layout on the Landing next to my Den. The station boards departed tonight to pastures new. One small piece of good news is that Four Masters Bridge will be retained as a diorama so all is not lost.

Mallow, 078 March 2002. Killiney, 657 JG Dewing 19 May 1956. Edenderry 1950's

CB&SCR Dunmanway nameboard in March 1961. County Donegal Railways, A couple of Dewing slides at Letterkenny. May 1957.

Fingers crossed but there are hopefully some 15 + SLNCR negatives in the pipeline shortly.

That picture is of the Mourne River bridge , the one I have is the bridge over the Foyle north of Strabane near Garvary (Google Maps). I too thought it was on the Dublin- Belfast Main Line but the slide caption says otherwise and its also in the Colourpoint book on the GNRI page 67.

SLNCR Manorhamilton station "Lough Gill" 25 Sept 1954. Glass Negative D7 539 at Dublin Harcourt Street probably between 1930-1935 before being reboilered. GNRI 1960-05-20 Strabane. Derry - Belfast diesel set xing the Foyle JGD600438. 5 Car BUT set on 4.10pm Derry to Belfast service. 2nd Coach is Buffet Car 124

A couple more JG Dewing slides. The first is the entrance facade to Belfast GVS on 25 May 1964, the only buildings recognisable today is the block containing the "Crown Bar and Robinsons Bar with a Barber's sandwiched between them. The next one is a thatched cottage in Newtonstewart on 3 May 1964, it may have been of railway interest as its painted blue. Lastly a giant cast iron netty which Galteemore has kindly identified as being in Victoria Square, Belfast June 1964.

Do you mean escapees from the local Calf Sales

I've enlarged this bit of the Enniskillen Railbus 2A negative to highlight the unusual container on the platform which appears to have a barred door so you can see the contents or possibly to convey dogs/ young animals etc.

SLNCR Enniskillen Railbus 2A 25 September 1954. UTA Portrush station, 25August 1962. West Clare, 5C arriving at Ennis on the afternoon goods. 8 July 1954.

Yes you are correct the Saltburn - Manchester Airport TPX service doesn't run via Darlington but goes direct from Eaglescliffe to Northallerton via the old 'Leeds Northern' Main line and then via the East Coast Main Line to York etc .

3 Cavan & Leitrim today , I particularly like JG Dewings shot of 5T at Dromod terminus on 22 May 1957 with (I think) ex T&D companions coach and bogie van plus the local passengers. The other 2 views are at Ballinamore, 3L on the Arigna train 26 August 1954 and 12L 21 May 1957 (Dewing's developing a bit suspect on this one) The last view is at Cork J11 220 July 1955.

Fotopic went bust over 10 years ago and it took a few months just to get them to set up a temporary facility to retrieve files. I had some 15000 odd images on there which eventually were then put onto my Flickr 'Ernie's Railway Archive' You can recognise the ex Fotopic images as they used a - instead of a space between words and the retrieved files still have the 'underscore' as I couldn't be a*sed er didn't have the time to re-title them. They also owed me over £100 commission for photos they had sold plus the bulk of my annual subscription fee. On the whole Flickr has been far more satisfactory. C'est la vie!

An interesting comment from Jonathan Allen on the original Aghadavoyle station Flickr post. 'Cabin closed 1965 - presumably at the same time as Goraghwood - Newry - Warrenpoint. Lever frame was on the first floor of the station building (in the bit jutting out) and later collapsed through the floor! For many years, it could be clearly seen when passing by train.'

4 JG Dewing views today; the first is ex W&T no 4 (GSR 486) built by Andrew Barclay in 1908 at Waterford Manor in April 1940, although looking in good fettle the loco was withdrawn the following year. 3 views of Aghadavoyle bank and Aghadavoyle station. The station view is 8 June 1961. The other views are from the loco, SG3 UTA 35 on 31 May 1961 and there are some 18 slides of this trip up the bank and another trip on W Class 104 on 1 June 1961. A bit repetitive as they feature mainly the open countryside. I will add the others to flickr in due course.

I now have that original slide as well. I didn't know the loco portrait slide existed but Mr Dewing had had a go at re-composing the slide image and I have had to clear some sticky tape off it before I could scan it. This probably put publishers off using it in the past. This is the one of the train at Manorhamilton Been on this topic before.

Hope the weather's a bit better at Statfold Jim. Its decidedly chilly up here on (nearly) on Hadrians Wall!

There were some more CDRJC views in the latest Dewing lot Jim. Here's a couple plus one for 'Galteemore' I think he might like it. Donegal Town Railcar 20 26 May 1957. Stranorlar, Ex DBST converted to Trailer 3 plus a bit of the Turntable detail a not so common view looking south. 24 May 1957. SLNCR 'Enniskillen' at Manorhamilton 27 May 1957.