snapper

17:26 May 28th From IR twitter 18:21

No.461 is scheduled to return light engine from Whitehead to Dublin on Thursday 29th May, following its substitution for No.85 on the Saint Canice railtour. The outline timetable is: Whitehead Excursion 10:05 Carrickfergus 10:17 Belfast Central 10:47 Lisburn 11:11 Lurgan 11:30 Portadown 11:38 Newry 12:04 Dundalk 12:30 Drogheda 13:20 Malahide 13:57 Dublin Connolly 14:16

The Mallow viaduct was not until 9th of August 1922, it may well have been that the standard route of this mail train was up the North Kerry line to Limerick and on to Dublin from there.

Your best bet would be to keep an eye on the RPSI website or if you get a RPSI membership then you will get a email newsletter about everything that is going on.

The osi map viewer is pretty good, http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,594711,772008,1,10 Select historic 25 on the right and zoom in. I find it easier to navigate in the normal map view to where I want to see and then change to the historic 25.

All hail pope heirflick

That picture has a strong blue tint (look at the grass) which may be masking a light lime green, I think this might be truer but its hard to tell without looking at the original

Is the picture online, I would love to look at it.

Movement in the yards is controlled by the shunters who gives instructions to the drivers. The shunters set the points manually and control the movements of the trains either via hand signals or via a shunters radio to the driver. Movements into and out of the yard would be coordinated by CTC and the shunter.

Correct, and there is still a filler on the top of the tender for use with water towers

Thats a great pic, thanks. A bit uglier than I thought it would be.

Would anybody know of any source online where I could see pictures of Portarlington Signal Box back in the days of semaphore, or failing that any good books that have one. Thanks Snapper

any chance this is it, I know its not an A class but its in the style you are talking about and the period covered fits http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/From-CIE-IR-Mark-Darby/9780711034761?b=-3&t=-20#Fulldescription-20

Irish Metro vick diesels by Barry Carse? http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Irish-Metro-Vick-Diesels-Barry-Carse/9781898392156

very nice

Correct it was through this gate at the factory, https://www.google.com/maps/

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/we-know-who-you-are-irish-rail-tweets-driver-who-hit-bridge-1.1599850

SANTA SPECIAL All Santa Special train tickets are now sold out - Belfast, Dublin and Portadown!

Sale agreed

€7 each including postage Aspects of Modeling, Railway Electrics. Ian Morton ISBN: 9780711033436 Aspects of Modelling, Digital Command Control, 2nd Edition, Ian Morton ISBN:9780711034990

All trains (Dublin), steam and diesel, are now sold out. Ticket allocation and dispatch will be two to three weeks in advance of train date,

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just broad gauge or are you including narrow gauge? in broad gauge, number 495, class M3 0-4-0 standard tank?

well they have listed it in their 2014 network statement. Disused platforms don't seem to be listed except for grand canal dock which is down as not yet available.