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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.
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Limerick to Limerick Junction Dualling
Irishswissernie replied to StevieB's topic in What's happening on the network?
Its approx 18 miles from Limerick Junction to Killonan , the last approx4 miles to Limerick City are still double track. -
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!
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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.
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Irish Model Railway track plans
Irishswissernie replied to David Holman's topic in Irish Model Layouts
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. -
I enjoyed watching Leslie McCallister's excellent IRRS Lance King slide show Webinar last night. Here are a few views at Belfast York Road, the slides are by Roy Dennison from 1987. First view is from 6 September 1958 In the second view you can just see a former CIE C Class Last view is the former Midland hotel I also probably have more NCC HC Casserley negatives which havn't yet been uploaded but its having to sort out which ones due to former computer woes!
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I think its Athy. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianm42/35893833392/in/photolist-WWRo4R-WFPhu5-WWRqKx-WK9dJx-WmtFxm-WFPguE-WK9c5v-WWRnmZ-WFPhG9-WFPh9q-WWRmaF-WK9dqM-iSkSdN-VHofgV-WmtG3Q-WWRoNM-WWRnPx-WmtGad-WFPhi3-WWRmqk-WFPgGU-FEGh1a-UH8SJW-bczRDP-nGx8Vh-UqJqUr-cURhYY-UqBw3h-rNgimr-rN8Zy7-rLcUFU-9z8sTG-s5DTpZ-95qtqe-WWRokH-WK9cWF-eiWKZ8-WWRmiX-aqDfY8-sKvKdj-aqFXRw-cT6LUj-sKCmcp-9MWvr4-cT6zhG-JqGF54-cT6F8h-cT6NBY-cT6MXu-6aWjRv
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I don't think its Clonmel, the individual stones on the parapet are different. On the A8 view they are in pretty regular lines whereas in this Graham Roose view (21 October 1995) which I have found in the pending tray the Clonmel parapet stone are irregular small pieces. The platform also looks wider.