Irishswissernie

Well I'm a bit gobsmacked over this one! I took this photo of a slate train on my Conwy Falls layout yesterday and added it to one of my flickr albums. Flickr has this unofficial Group called "In Explore" which 'show cases' photos added to Flickr . The 1.6 million selected invariably feature Scenery, People , Animals, Birds, Buildings , structures etc and quite often real railways. I have over the years had quite a few prototype railway views picked by the Group but this is a first for me and I have never seen other model trains etc selected. The layout is nowhere near being finished and features the Bachmann Scenecraft Ffestiniog Porthmadog Bog block which will in due course have a makeover with several additions/alterations planned . I didn't realise I was such an artist - might have to spell my name Braque rather than Brack

I have been working on stone walls made from Das and they are now fixed and had basic painting done. Also ran a 24 wagon train today. Link to video below.

Waterford B104 ca 1960. 'Pat' at Cork shed ca 1960 West Clare , the LRTL Special at Lahinch 10 June 1953. 5C and Tourist saloon 33C.

Superb Leslie! My old hunting ground, I'm past making long trips these days but I have amassed 230 odd hours of video and 13000 photos/slides over 25 trips to Switzerland mainly between 1997 and 2009 and I usually put one of my videos on in the early evening for an hour's peace whilst Madame is at work. I have some of them and a few videos on Flickr ; this is the Collection Link to the various albums. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157705396264381/ As an aside I was watching the Tour de France yesterday and at a point some 40km from the finish there was an EWS Class 66 lurking in the background! One of the European transfers.

Mallow A4 ca 1960. Newry Edward Street U 67 ca 1959 Narrow Water UG 48 ca 1959 SLNC Glenfarne Railcar A May 1957 JGD

B&CDR No 12 10 June 1949, I think this is possibly York Road as there is an NCC loco on the right and Desmond Coakham 's tome says No 12 spent some time there in 1949 JG Dewing photographer. Cork Albert Quay, F6, 36 June 1957 County Donegal Railways, 'Columbkille' Strabane June 1957.

Challenge accepted Boys! Muttenz , Switzerland April 2008 Mind you I don't remember seeing another but then these days I basically don't remember much! Smoky 66.mp4

GNRI Nr Dunleer , 39 on the Ardee Goods 20 May 1949. Dun Laoghaire , 260, 16 May 1959. Galway 554 5 July 1955.

Its a catch point to protect the line beyond from anything entering the line beyond the junction unless the point is set for the line the catch point is on. In this case the catch point is on the steeply graded line up to the coal sidings and if a wagon got away it would be derailed and (hopefully) not hit anything on the platform line. The points and the ground signal on the right are all worked from that lever frame along the line in front of the building.

Cavan & Leitrim, Arigna branch, 3T near Drumshanbo JGD 16 March 1959. Arigna station June 1957. Belfast & County Down 29 as UTA 229 June 1953.

This is the E Mail Journal 211 - June 2023 Dear Member, It has come to our attention that the printed IRRS Journal for June 2023 had underpaid postage applied to it for our members located in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately Royal Mail raised prices in April and despite checking with the Newry Post Office that everything was correct our contractor was not made aware of this. Some members have reported having to pay a 1.50 GBP surcharge to Royal Mail in order to take delivery. We now attach a pdf version of the Journal for all members so that they can enjoy the content immediately. We apologise for this and hope that you enjoy the June Journal, which is the result of many hours of work by our team of volunteers. If you have any concerns or queries please do not hesitate to contact us info@irrs.ie Kind regards Mark Merrigan Hon Secretary IRRS

I had an E Mail from IRRS a few days ago saying that the Journals for UK members had been posted via Royal Mail in Newry but due to wrong information given by the Newry Post Office they had been posted with insufficient postage and Royal Mail have been sending out a card demanding another £1-50 (this includes an admin fee) to be paid before they will deliver them. I had the Email from IRRS because I am on their E Mail 'mailing' list. Their email had a link to an On-line version of the Journal so I have just read this instead. My postcard from Royal Mail demanding £1-50 arrived a couple of days ago. It says they will return the item to the sender in 18 days if I don't pay it.

Donegal Town Centre 18 May 1958. No trains in this one but there are 2 GNRI single deckers hiding in the back ground and it is a JG Dewing slide. Views like this with a specific date are invaluable in setting the period on a model railway. No double yellow lines, Park your car where you like. Nowadays when you look on Google Street View its a glorified roundabout with a pedestrianised centre , fancy little walls and seats, the trees have grown but to plagiarise Pete Seeger: Where have all the people gone - Gone to Aldi (just round the corner) every one? I prefer Lidl!

The shape of the objects under the tarpaulins suggest that they are the same as the ones on the wagons on the left without tarpaulins. The wording is undecipherable but they could be fertiliser or bagged peat perhaps . Negative is by R M Casserley .

Limerick Junction, Waterford bound Railcar crosses the main line 17 March 1967. Dungarvan B124 on westbound goods 16 March 1967. Kilkenny 15 September 1973.

Slate tramway bridges now have parapets/fences.

County Donegal Railways, Ballyshannon. Railcar Trailer 2 (I hope!). June 1957. Donegal Town, junction of the Stranorlar and Ballyshannon routes.12 May 1959 JGD Dublin Pearse 2648 ca 1959.

Cork shed A1, ca 1959-60. Thurles ex GNRI 207 on a special 17 March 1962 JG Dewing (Any familiar faces?) Another JG Dewing neg; 438 at Dun Laoghaire 17 May 1951.

At the 2014 Transport Gala they transported a wagon load of Peel 50's down to Port Erin behind the new diesel ( 2 ill fated designs together!) On return to Douglas they were unloaded onto the platform for display. 2 people could pick them up and they had no reverse just a handle on the back which you lifted them by and turned them around. They were too late for the old days of the Isle of Man Railway.

Today I have been doing some work on the slate waste tramway bridges which disguise the 2 exits into the fiddle yard.

West Clare Railway 3389 at Kilkee after record non-stop run from Ennis , 10 June 1953. 2 views of the GNRI diesel 800 prior to re-numbering by CIE, Dublin Pearse station 1958.

Just got this neg of it! Circa 1960. There is a similar crane preserved on the site of Union Mills station, the trackbed from Peel through Union Mills to the Douglas outskirts is now a footpath.

I considered going but am not really up to travelling far these days. I first visited in 1971 and have managed another 6 trips since; its a shame that they couldn't have retained the Peel line as well, then all the major towns on the island would still be rail linked. I have 12 albums on flickr covering all aspects of the Railways but the most interesting one is this one with some 450 photos.: This covers the lines pre preservation from the 1930's and also the Ailsa period. I have just acquired another 120 odd images to add in due course.

4 JG Dewing today. 2 views of an IRRS Special to Youghal with 193 at Cork and Cobh Junction 17 March 1962. SLNCR , 'Sligo' in the goods yard at Collooney on the Enniskillen goods. May 1947. I'm pleased this negative came to light as I already have JGD's view of this same train departing Collooney Finally Signals at Derry, Waterside October 1970.

SLNCR Manorhamilton station. Enniskillen on the Enniskillen goods 27 May 1957 JG Dewing. Kilfree Junction G2, 653 on the branch train, March 1961.