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I have put some of the links in Ernies Railway Archive thread in error but here is another one , a good clear view of Limerick. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000733603/HierarchyTree

Yes I would agree, appears to be loaded onto a bogie well wagon.

Another (this is a bit addictive) but this is a great view of Campile station on the South Wexford line, the entire station is shown and there is even a wagon in the Shelburne Co-op siding. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000733958/HierarchyTree

This is an excellent overall view of most of Inchicore in 1955 showing the coal tower, shed and works. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000733435/HierarchyTree

It was probably either life expired and taken off but more likely taken off to avoid paying rates in the 1920's-30's as a cost cutting exercise by the GSR

A couple of views today on flickr Muddy view Thurles with J15 164 shunting wagons 27 June 1959 and clearer view of Broadstone roundhouse 28 June 1959

Jim there are a couple of parts of Stranorlar, I didn't realise there was a large bus garage on the station forecourt but some interesting roof detail of the station building. Also distant views of Donegal Town station.

First one is Stirling and the last one Yeovil Junction the rest look like that boring bit of England south of Geordieland and north of Salisbury

This is a superb view of the Irish Cement Factory at Drogheda (not Platin, the title is wrong)particularly when you enlarge the relevant bit. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000736409/HierarchyTree

I chanced upon this by accident as someone had put a link to one of my photos of a Donegal railcar and I noticed a link on that to the above collection. I have been going through the 'catalogue' its really easy to follow . Click on one of the photos linked below and you will see at the top of the photo the title Morgan Aerial Photographic collection , click on this and it brings up a list of all the scans for you to work down. In the top right hand corner of the photo is a small view which you can click on to enlarge. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000736067/HierarchyTree is a view of the Cahir accident involving a Woolwich and showing the breakdown train. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000734506/HierarchyTree This is a view of Derry docks with the LP&HC tracks. I have discovered a fair number of others but it is taking a long time to work through the entire collection.

Todays Irish scans uploaded to flickr today are from the CB&SCR. John Dewings view of the 17 March 1961 IRRS Special, 464 at Albert Quay and a D Twibell view of 37 at Rocksavage 25 August 1953.

My leatherbound copy of the July & October 1917 Working Timetables plus Train Alterations Notices has this stamp inside the front cover dated 4 March 1925; some 8 years later.

I must be pyschic (wife says more likely a pyscho) because I paid for my outstanding 2 earlier. Not sure what I'm going to do with the 5 now on the way though. 3 are on the old IRM Irish Account and 2 on the IRM UK account so presume they will arrive separately.

Its an EFE Rail which I believe is made from the original Kernow/DJM moulds,dies etc.

I've been musing this week up in the railway room wondering how I could make a small Isle of Wight layout in the space available and things have now progressed to the stage where one can be incorporated. There is a space in front of the Four Masters fiddle yard and a small terminus can be fitted in here and linked to the rest of the layouts so that the existing fiddle yards can be used. The space was earmarked for a diorama of a North Eastern railway coal drop but this project has now been moved to the remaining area at the fiddle yard throat. All these small dioramas layouts plus the main Glengarriff/Four Masters layout are linked together so that one can just let the locos/trains run etc. The photos hopefully explain the concept with Alum Bay being perched on a ledge above the chine with a cliff railway terminus providing a link to the beach below and the station having an overall roof to cover the exit to the fiddle yard. You may have noticed I have used this concept before! The siding next to the head shunt will just take an ex LSWR Gate set (specially transfered to the island to provide a more frequent service for tourists between Yarmouth Pier station and Alum Bay) The service to Newport originally from Freshwater was diverted by the Southern to Alum Bay so as to serve the more populous areas and also Yarmouth Pier. Overall size is approx 1 metre by 1 foot (I use both measurement systems plus rule of thumb as a matter of course!)

Having discovered the original clips for my 2014 Isle of Man videos stored on an external hard drive, I have extracted the clips covering the ex Donegal Railcars Nos 19 + 20 stored in the carriage shed at Douglas. Click on the black icon to view them below.

They took over a few years ago Jim and started using the awful paper that they used on their own publications. Hopefully this practice is now history.

Book arrived yesterday and looks pretty impressive especially as Oakwood Press have gone back to using decent glossy paper rather then the semi matt stuff seen lately. 192 pages plenty of photos, maps, track plans and a number of rolling stock drawings.

3 more JW Armstrong views from the ARPT, probably 1940's - early 50's

Anyone remember the passenger and car carrying trains that used to run on BR wherein you could load your car onto back of the train and miss out the long journey to Scotland or Cornwall at the start and end of your holidays? Well the Isle of Man ran a 'one off' on 1 August 2014 but it was definitely Driver only - no passengers and you didn't drive the car on and off!

Yes I'm right with you there plus Kitson, Hudswell Clarke & Hunslet from dog chains, oh and the Scottish builders and then there's Dugald & Peter Drummond, T W Worsdell, etc

Now I would have models of 6 of the Swilly 4-6-2t's but not the ugly pair 13 & 14. They were built by er Hawthorn Leslie now where did I mention them recently oh yes A5's .

Sorry not a fan of the A5 and they didn't use them in true Geordieland much. Darlington I think had some but they had to have lower domes and modified chimneys to fit the former North Eastern railway loading gauge. The final batch built in LNER days had these and cab side windows., however they were built up here at Hawthorn Leslies. I would rather have an A8.

The cheapest or should I say the least expensive option has been a tunnel under the Solent in the Lymington to Yarmouth area and has always foundered on the cost plus the major centres of population are Portsmouth on the mainland and Ryde/ the East coast of the Island so it would be a huge detour to use the tunnel. My imagineering (new word?) has always centred on a line called the Yarmouth, Totland & Alum Bay which would have run from Yarmouth with a branch joining from Fort Victoria Pier where minerals would have been shipped, then via Totland and a short tunnel to Alum Bay. Possibly a colliery near Alum Bay (perish the thought), however there are apparently deep down under the chalk, coal measures rather like as in Kent where coal measures had been discovered during digging for the early channel tunnel proposals. It could have been oil or gas as in the Isle of Purbeck. Anyway such a line would have captured and developed the tourist traffic to Alum Bay from Yarmouth and the ferry from Lymington. I will have to try and forget all this! The current layouts are the Sligo & Donegal Junction and Glengarriff, its bad enough trying to incorporate the North Eastern, Caledonian and North British alongside CIE/Irishrail on Four Masters Bridge; scenically -not at the same time. Chalk downs, bricks and Morris Dancers just won't fit in.

I have always been interested in the Isle of Wight Railways and keep pondering about building a model but there are only limited range of models available RTR. Back in 2016 I visited the Isle of Wight Steam Railway and on a whim purchased the 2 Kernow Isle of Wight versions of the O2. On returning home I discovered that Kernow were going to do an ex LSWR Brake Van Isle of Wight version so I ordered 2. The years rolled by and no sign of the Brake vans appearing so when someone offered to purchase the O2's which hadn't even been taken out of their boxes they 'went the journey' Moving on to 2021 and I was looking for a couple of Brake Vans for the Sligo & Donegal Junction but I'm long past building stuff so searched for a model a bit different from the usual to convert/re-letter (The Sligo & Donegal being an independent company would have had its own rolling stock) After 6 years I discovered that Kernow had finally made the LSW Brake Van so purchased 2 grey for the S&DJR plus 1 SR brown Isle of Wight version to go with the latest Hornby Isle of Wight SR Terrier which I couldn't resist getting. I then tried to find a Kernow SR Isle of Wight O2 but no such luck so gave up. Suddenly on 4 August I had an email from Rails of Sheffield with the info that Bachmann in the 2021 Autumn new models were going to release an O2 under the EFERail brand so I thought might as well order one and hopefully it will appear in the next 3 or 4 years so won't interfere with the looming expenditure on 2 more A Class! It was a bit of a shock to get an email 6 days later saying the O2's were in stock and mine was being posted. Sure enough its turned up this morning. Rails now say this version is now sold out so lady luck was with me for once. 6 years for the Brake vans to appear and 6 days for the O2!