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I have a couple of 229 views on flickr in the B&CDR album.
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I always found the Swiss extremely accommodating! If you were travelling First Class then several times the railcar drivers if they saw you videoing etc, they would invite you to travel in the cab with them. At Buchs one day the train from Austria through to Zurich was delayed and a lady grew concerned that she would miss a flight from Zurich Airport. The Driver of an Ae6/6 powered freight overheard the passengers talking and offered to take us through to Ziegelbrucke (about halfway there) in the cabs of the loco. About 10 of us climbed aboard the loco and I managed to get a place in the front cab so I could video the trip. At Ziegelbrucke we transfered to a local train, the station staff ushering us all across the track rather than having to walk round via the subway.
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I acquired a rather mixed bag of negatives recently, most somewhat scratched etc but there are some hidden gems. This is Cashel in 1938 probably taken from the rock. You can see why the population of the town soon deserted the passenger trains! I am pretty sure this one of JT 93 is at Greenore but there are no details with the negative.
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'Lough Melvin' at Enniskillen, June 1957. West Clare railway Brake Van 18C complete with the usual negative fault from this collection. Broadstone shed 1960's. Lastly , elsewhere in the World on the Archive I have now processed some of G C O'hara's 4500 negs and slides so here is a sampler. The North Easts "Tara Mines", Hunts Cliff on the line serving Boulby Poatash Mine on the Yorkshire Cleveland coast. Nowadays its Class 66 rather than Class 20 but there are usually 6 return workings daily plus traffic to Skinningrove Steel Works.
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