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Limerick Junction 17 August 1994 , 151 trundles along the now lifted back line prior to reversing into platform 4 with a Rosslare Harbour service. 151 after arrival on the same train at the also now lifted (re-sited) Rosslare Harbour station.

Dublin Connolly June 1961 .

Claremorris 253, 6 July 1955. Dublin Connolly 19 November 1990. 128 and a rather scruufy 155.

HC Casserley NCC today. 19 April 1948 Derry, Waterside 82 reverses the stock of the 8.15 ex Belfast out of the platform, Negative damaged! 22 June 1937 Belfast York Road 58 and 14

West Clare, Kilrush either 5C or 6C CA 1950. Kilrush wagon 17C ca 1950 Dublin, Connolly 124 20 July 1990.

Jim Edgars book, Irish Railways Line by Line Vol 2. Photo 36 Block Fertiliser train at Cahir 29 )ct 1987. 2 photos Nos 46 , 16 October 1986 showing a mixed Limerick to Waterford goods at Carrick on Suir with one fertiliser in the consist. The same train is shown in photo 42 at Clonmel with the fertiliser wagon actually being unloaded by fork lift. Photo 18 shows an 8 wagon fertiliser set in the Farranfore ,Kerry Coop siding behind 020 13 April 1988.

The Inchicore Works shunter 'Sambo' over the years. Spot the changes! 16 April 1940. 29 June 1959 June 1961 JW Armstrong photo from early CIE shows different smokebox base to later years

The initials came in handy when I was looking for transfers to letter up the rolling stock - not that I have done any yet!

Its a Roy Dennison slide taken on his trip in January 1961 so he has wrongly recorded the number. I shall amend it to 801. Many thanks for the information and pointing the error out.

Inchicore June 1961, J15B 711 appears to be in steam but as a stationary boiler. There are some kind of pipe connections near the cab and tender. The bicycle looks in better nick! Clara 18 March 1963. Ferbane 719 8 June 1961.

I think its some kind of Barytes. There are huge deposits along both shores of Lough Melvin. The first deposits were discovered near Garrison which is now in Northern Ireland and thus when the S&DJR was built it subsequently ended up being a cross-border railway and remained independent. The Garrison branch was truncated in the 1950's and no longer crosses the Border, however the S&DJR remained independent working its own lines until the mid 1970's sustained mainly by the mineral traffic. As the steam locos wore out Irishrail diesels increasingly took over the traffic working particularly as after partition freight traffic through to Ballyshannon and County Donegal had grown. The S&DJR owners have now contracted all traffic working to Irishrail. Whilst writing this rubbish I should perhaps also point out that the Glengarriff in the above photos is the Glengarriff at the mouth of Gleniff and not the one in County Cork which appears in many of the earlier photos on this thread. The two stations are remarkably similar though.

My Fork Lifts turned up yesterday but there is a bit of a problem with them. My donkey won't fit between the shafts.

Ex NCC today, 6 July 1968 , University 4 at 2.30pm. June 1968, 53 near Ballymena. 1955CA Portrush 97.

The Magnesite wagons redundant after the closure of Ballinacourty were transferred to the S&DJR and here we have a couple of views of 036 at Glengarriff and on the Drowes River Bridge with one of the first trains.

Dundalk Works yard Ca 1955 151, MAK diesel. Dundalk station VS 206 on a Dublin bound service. CA 1955-7

Millstreet 5 June 1961. Ballaghaderreen 8 June 1961. Ennis 7 June 1961.

Newport, Isle of Wight, high tide on the River Medina just north of the viaduct on the Isle of Wight Central railway lines to Ryde and Sandown is the location. I would think that the vessels are mainly individually owned by small business's or by Crouchers Ltd .

I came across these 2 negatives recently, I've no recollection where they came from but on scanning them they are quite interesting. The 2 ships 'Carrowdene' & 'Clarecastle' were part of the Guinness fleet and are loading barrels for export at or just down river of the Custom House quay in Dublin. The small barge "Seapoint" was used to transfer barrels from the St James Brewery quay near Heuston down the River Liffey, sailing under all the bridges to where sea-going ships could berth.

8 June 1961 Banagher branch, Bord na Mona Xing.2 views of the Special at Banagher same day.

The ships in Post 1 (1 August 2021) photos 5 and 6 are Isle of Man Steam Packet co. vessels at Douglas, Isle of Man.

Mallow 163, 16 August 1994. Tralee 176 + 145 and probably same pair later at Portlaoise 16 August 1994.

I think possibly that when the vans were first built they were given a lower black band as there wasn't a visible underframe to match up with the Cravens etc which had black underframes so giving some livery uniformity to a train set. When they were rebuilt for the Mark 2's which didn't have a visible underframe, the lower black line was left off so that again the train set livery had some uniformity.

I had a weekend in North Wales a fortnight ago, the Tallylyn had an 'Anything goes' Weekend with 4 locos in steam and various diesels also working trains. An all day rover cost £22. The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland though on the Sunday was a bit disappointing with very few trains. One working to Blaenau and 2 to Tan-y-Blwch . The Welsh Highland had one return working Porthmadog - Beddgelert and one return Caernarvon- Beddgelert which didn't connect. £100 for 2 people Portmadog-Beddgelert!. The weekday service is only marginally better - even in August. The Porthmadog Premier Inn is now open. I did however acquire a few 009 items for my roundy-roundy in the shop and also video'd the new Garratt 130.

This Album on Youtube has some interesting photos of the Station buildings etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzuuAzTAcB4

Kingscourt 3 June 1961 GNRI 132 on Special. Donegal Town CA 1950's 2 views of wagons.