Irishswissernie

This Consent Leasing Container being loaded at Mallow didn't have the large motif on the sides, just a small one in the top right corner. You can see the whole container in this video plus a further selection of others. Ignore the black thumbnail and just press the play the video icon. From about 4 minutes -40 secs in. Bachmann did Consent Leasing containers but possibly not the correct prototype. Ernie

Turf Burner 23 Oct 1960 GT Robinson Broadstone October 1960 Guinness Brewery Oct 1960 Ernie

Flickr is getting busier now its Christmas I think because its a therapeutic refuge for harassed husbands suffering from frantic purchasing by their loved ones of several tons of comestibles as the shops are going to be shut for 24 hours! Here are a few of Gerald Robinson's from October 1960. Broadstone October 1960 Ernie

The photographer Gerald T Robinson also gave me his notebook and he has it down as GNR Leyland Railbus No 2 at Inchicore 23 October 1960. I looked up the info in the 'bible' Norman Johnston's "Locomotives of the GNRI page 165.It's number as built in Jan 1935 was F but when the Diesel Railcars D E F & G came along the railbus was re-numbered F3 In 1944 F3 was damaged in an accident and another road bus was converted to replace it also being numbered F3. In 1947 the GNR again re-numbered this railbus as 2. At the same time 2 further railbus's were taken over from the DN&GR and the the 4 became Nos 1 to 4 Of these 3 was scrapped in 1955. 1 & 4 were transfered to Departmental use in 1956 leaving 2 as the last one in public service The other 2 were re-numbered8178 and 8177. 8178 went to the UTA and is the one preserved as Railcar 1 at Cultra. 8177 was scrapped by CIE. I reckon the photograph is of the replacement F3 converted in 1944 after withdrawal from public service. The GNRI appears to have converted a total of 7 road buses of this type 2 for the SLNCR, 2 for the DN&GR and 5 (1 being a replacement) for themselves. Many thanks to the late Norman Johnston for ferreting all this info out, I hope I have interpreted it correctly. Now I'm off for a lie down! ERnie

Here is another GT Robinson shot from October 1960 Probably not as comfortable as an ICR but far more interesting Ex GNRI railbus 2 (F3) I think Ernie

New traffic at Glengarriff!

I have acquired some more negatives all taken in October 1960. Back in the last Century when I was young and single there were several people selling duplicate slides. This was before the days of Colourrail. I recall Colourviews, CCQ Slides and several others including GTR Slides. Gerald T Robinson stopped trading many years ago and I have acquired a fair number of his British originals. I also knew that he had made one visit to Eire back in 1960 but the Ektachrome views he took didn.t come out too well and they were destroyed, however I asked several years ago about the B&W negatives and out of the blue this week I have managed to acquire those. There are approx 140, mainly of dead and dying steam and these will be added to Flickr in due course. There are some others though. Here are a couple: State Coach 346 and Saloon 47 at Inchicore together with F6 42. 25 October 1960 Ernie

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It is a lamp, here is another image of the other coach side on the train probably somewhere on the branch to Palace East in 1956 Ernie

It doesn't help much but below is an enlargment from a Casserley negative from July 1960. Doh! This might be better, actually on my Flickr! Ernie

The Branch train was an IRRS Special, the scans only identify it as Dublin - Athy Tour 1956 which clearly went a bit further . There are views at Kildare, Bagenalstown and stations on the branch as far as Palace East but none of how the train returned to Dublin. It appears as if the Loco has run round and probably took the line back to Bagenalstown etc.. Locos identified on scans as 196 and 343 ERnie

Another view has come to light in the files, not quite what you wanted but it is the western end of Palace East 1956 Ernie

I thought Palace East rang a bell, HC &/or RM Casserley travelled on the IRRS special on the 9 July 1960 and took medium format photos from Bagenalstown to Palace East which are in a Lot I obtained at the recent auction. They took the usual view at Palace East but as its a decent negative I have done a couple of enlargments to bring out the station building and loading bank details.

Journal of the IRRS Vol 19 No 133 June 1997, 10 page article by John Langford, Wexford to Waterford in 1959. Signal diagram of Palace East and 3 photos taken in 1962 of the station. I also have a scan from the ARPT of 196 in 1956 Ernie

I had mine pre-ordered on Amazon and it arrived last week. The book offers excellent coverage of the Irish railway scene from ca 1980; of particular interest to me are the wealth of views covering the freight workings. Amberley have also again improved the quality of the paper. Definitely one for your bookshelf. Ernie

It was a firm called Linka, basically you cast your own parts in a mould using some powdery stuff mixed with water. This is the company who seem to have taken over from the original firm. https://www.scalecast.co.uk/linka-moulds.html#/ I experimented with the idea but adapting the bits/castings produced with a bit of scratch building. Below is one I made earlier (well some 39 years earlier!) I think I sold it many years ago. 4mm scale

A link to this article. Apparently the gantry was only erected in 1995 and removed in 2009. https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/the-argus/20090128/282376920466924 Ernie

Ardee Road replaced the Barrack Street yard and was built on the formation of the route from Dundalk station westwards to Clones. I don't have any photos of the yard but did manage to video 072 shunting the yard from Dundalk platform so gives some idea of the traffic handled towards the end of the freight services. 072 arrived from Belfast and after depositing the Belfast wagons added further wagons from the sidings and yard. Shunting was complicated by the need to keep bogie wagons at the front and any bubbles at the rear of the train to facilitate dropping them off at Drogheda. The next video on flickr continues the sequence. Ernie

I'm O/T as usual but they appeared 2000/2001. I travelled in the set in this view which was a Sunday Football extra to Portlaoise behind 077 in June 2001 and only odd coaches were appearing then as they were re-painted. I have added the video to Flickr of this train, the video also features a somewhat ailing 208 (luckily on Mark3's so back on topic!) https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/49054699726/in/dateposted-public/ Ernie

The structure on the left looks like the end of the Sligo coal stage

Unfortunately no more Irish narrow gauge, there are approx 50 Irish " standard " gauge Trust views still to upload and I have a fair number of recently acquired HC Casserley views to put on. There again I am meeting my mate from the Trust tomorrow at Newcastle Show and he might have something new! Ernie

Just realised I have a view of Capecastle taken by the late JW Armstrong and in the ARPT Archives on my flickr site. Its uploaded as a link so as not to infringe my permissions from the Trust. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/23517901282/in/album-72157627623204943/ Ernie

The remains of the Westport one can be seen on the left: Ernie

At Enniskillen even though there appears to be a coal bank complete with a crane to load the coal it seems that the coal loaders preferred to transfer it straight from wagon to tender! Some hefty lumps of coal on view. 22April1953 AL class 59 HC Casserley photographer. Given where Belmullet is I imagine that if it had existed the M&GWR would have probably provided a concrete coal bank and not much else. Ernie

A few from my Flickr album , the Geep is from ca 1964 and UG49 probably late 50's . The station building/overall roof is adjacent to No 49 and was quite ornate. Ernie