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3 from Alex Ford/Transport Library today. All from 1950. Dublin, Amiens Street 541 arriving from the West passing a couple of the GNR's articulated railcars. West Clare at Ennis, 5C departs on a train of 6 wheeled coaches. Ennis 10C in the Works..

Near Horseleap 18 March 1963. Mullingar 8 June 1961. Stranorlar CDRJC 4 Dec 1959.

Edenderry 9 June 1961. Ballaghaderreen 8 June 1961. Enfield 9 June 1961.

'Balls ups' corrected hopefully. Cashel June 1961 , a somewhat distinctive style material wise. Mallow 801 5 June 1961 Belfast GVS , June 1963

Yes I think so, you can see the 'buffer stop' for the stub siding.

B****r! I thought it was another view of 132, sorry folks but I am having eyesight problems at the moment - probably too much staring at the computer trying to match up Tom Rounthwaite's negatives and prints. It looks like Mountmellick looking at the distant view of the station building end.

Cork 5 June 1958 G&SWR Trespass sign Youghal 1 June 1958 Thurles with either a Clonmel or Limerick Junction Local 2 June 1958

CDRJC at Strabane, 3 views all 15 May 1959. Last view is another on either the Kingscourt or Oldcastle branches June 1963. That dead end short siding reminds of somewhere (Dunboyne) on the Clonsilla to Navan section. ACTUALLY AT MOUNTMELLICK.

Hill of Howth Tramway 8 June 1958. Corofin awaiting track lifting 7 June 1961. Belfast Central 18 June 1987.

Yes , not seeing so well this morning!

GNRI Derry Goods QG 155 6 Sept 1958 Interesting bread container, BR container and looks possibly like an ex PO Wagon 151 at Portarlington & Clara on IRRS Special 18 March 1963

A sad sight of Belfast Great Victoria Street 15 June 1987. Happier days! 18 Sept 1958 Dundalk U Class 203 Guinness Brewery Ca 1962, colour affected negative.

Mullingar 8 June 1961 Cork, Albert Quay. 90 shunting a railcar set. 13 January 1961 Letterkenny 5 December 1959

Cavan & Leitrim, Kiltubrid on the Arigna branch 13 March 1959. Streamstown IRRS SPL going to Clara 18 March 1963. Courtmacsherry 13 January 1961

I have views of 9 and sister 10 on flickr. They differed from the other Hill of Howth cars in that the entrance/exits were both on the same side of the car. You can see how easy it would be to remove the panels etc surrounding the upper deck probably done to facilitate storage or reduce the height whilst being transported on the road vehicle. The first cars Numbers 1 to 8 were built by Brush whilst the last 2 nos. 9 and 10 were built by Milnes and had different trucks and originally open sided lower decks which didn't work to well up on the hill. The lower decks were thus later glazed.

Its approx 18 miles from Limerick Junction to Killonan , the last approx4 miles to Limerick City are still double track.

Dublin Amiens Street today. 1958-09-19 Dublin Amiens St QGTs 99 shunts the yard 151 on IRRS SPL 18 Mar 1963 & 85 on another SPL 9 June 1961

West Clare after closure but during track recovery etc Ennis 7 June 1961.

The train would still have had to reverse at Enniskillen when coming off the SLNCR because the connection to the GNRI connected with the dead end exchange sidings and not the running line and therefore no direct route.

My long-time mate Dave Ford who I made many railway expeditions with and exhibited layouts with from the start of the 1980's until 'Anno Domini' caught up with us, has a photographic Archive (DaveF) on RMWEB similar to mine on Flickr. We both started uploading on RMWEB prior to 2009 but I switched to Flickr around about 2012 after the demise of fotopic. Dave's RMWEB stats are quite impressive, over 8700 posts, 21272 replies and probably 20000 + photos uploaded. No Irish though. He is now faced with re-uploading images from June 2021 because of their problems. Although I have over 20,000 UK images on Flickr, I gave up on uploading to RMWEB as it became too time-consuming plus images were 'snipped' and occasionally appeared elsewhere on the Net. The lack of exposure on RM hasn't affected the popularity of the Flickr Archive with hits now approaching 50 Million and 1500+ followers. The adverts get on my wick but then so do the ones on the TV which I invariably mute!

Clonakilty 5 June 1958, 90 on shed between Courtmacsherry branch duty. 2 views at Ballaghaderreen 19 May 1959 Last image, Collooney ex WLW 18 May 1959. The train is on the curve connecting to the ex M&GW line to Sligo. Sidings on the right are the ex WL&W (GS&WR) goods yard and the line in the centre going under the bridges is the connection to the (already closed) Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway at their Collooney station.

The M&GWR line at the edge of the diagram shows a siding next to the running line. The siding actually formed a long run round loop with another crossover half way along its length.

CDRJC 4 Dec 1959 , 11.10 am Strabane - Killybegs. Cork Glanmire Road , 217 19 Sept 1957 & J11 220 9 Sept 1958

Foxrock area, 15 March 1959 Cobh 1 June 1958 Athenry 18 May 1959

Its hard to believe but here are views from some 70 years ago of Sligo & Donegal Junction Railway No 5 on the morning Ballyshannon Goods crossing the Drowes River.