Irishswissernie

I have acquired a few more narrow gauge negatives, not brilliant quality and with faults but I think they are quite interesting. Date for these 2 views at Lahinch featuring ex T&D 6T and 7 C must be between 1953 and 1956.

Dundalk Works scrap line AL 58 22 October 1960. Portadown shed 1962.

For UK Modellers the Ballast wagons are sold out on the UK site , are you able to transfer any over?

Thurles 2 June 1958. Hill of Howth Tramway 15 March 1959 , 4 at Howth station and again at the Summit. Looks as if the photographer was the sole passenger!

Ex SLNCR "Lough Erne" shunts Belfast Docks 25 May 1964. Londonderry Waterside, probably No 4 August 1969, and No 4 on the Coleraine Turntable , June 1969.

'Turntable Turning Teaching' at Kingscourt 3 June 1961. Cavan & Leitrim Ballinamore station buildings 1957. CDRJC Van 174 at Strabane next to a GN broad gauge van illustrating the relative large loading gauge of the Donegal narrow gauge railways compared to other Irish narrow gauge lines.

County Donegal Railways Railcars. 21 April 1953 Railcar 10 at Stranorlar, HC Casserley. April 1946 Railcar 18 at Strabane, JG Dewing.

June 1961 Athlone MGW station,719. 8 June 1961 Aghadavoyle, 124 on the "Enterprise"

Here is a snip from the IRRS site telling you how to do it. You will need to have a flickr account as well as being an IRRS member

It looks like it had been re-numbered to 63 from this enlargement.

GNRI Belfast Adelaide station 30 June 1959 107 (Is this correct? should it be 117) + 585. same date/location ex NCC 91. Strabane 63 shunts the yard 2 July 1959.

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.

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