snapper

I was rummaging around on the internet and found these, I am not sure what the normal retail price on these is but they seem to be a good price.

Great Southern Railway: An Irish Pictorial €10.73 including postage

http://www.bookdepository.com/Great-Southern-Railway-Murray/9780711031500

The Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway, Ernest Shepherd £5.41 + postage

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Waterford-Limerick-Western-Railway/dp/0711031479/ref=pd_sim_14_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0RY616C7F6VZ5ADXZGBH

Railway Track Diagrams,6 Ireland: 6 €11.38 including postage

http://www.bookdepository.com/Railway-Track-Diagrams-6-Ireland-6-John-Yonge/9781898319689

The Dublin and South Eastern Railway, Ernest Shepherd & Gerry Beesley £ 8.95 + Postage

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Dublin-South-Eastern-Railway/dp/1857800826/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=10HHA5RTDVT7SRMPT5Y4

Health and Safety is fine until you end up with a manager like this

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In my view allowing IR to achieve operational savings by deconstructing rail infrastructure needs to be halted , separating running services from operating companies could help in that

That has already been done, as part of a previous EU railway package Irish Rail was split in two, The railway undertaking (RU) and The railway infrastructure manager (IM).

New maps needed! Derry - Belfast - Dublin - Cork - Bantry......

Well they recently got pass to run to Tralee, Connolly and Dundalk

I cant seem to find any tender for this, this is the only thing i can see for 201s

Adhesion Enhancing Wheel Rail Sanding Systems for 201 Locomotive and 2600 DMU Fleets.

Ouch, that is one hell of a bang

A couple of years too late to sell at that price.

looking good

What an absolute shambles!!!!!!! Just been reading the account of what happened today.... unbelievable.

 

Railway enthusiasts or no, the "Steam Dreams" crowd can hardly have ben impressed!

True, but at least it wasn't anything from the RPSI that failed

Update for Thursday 25th June

RPSI 85 Light Engine

Dublin Connolly: 12:15

Dundalk: 13:30

Portadown: 14:13 -14:20

Lisburn: 14:49 - 15:05

Belfast Central: 15:27

Whitehead: 16:12

The only lines that are in use and have 201 restrictions are Killonan to Ballybrophy and Limerick Junction to Waterford.

An update to the times above for Thursday 18th of June.

RPSI Mk2s + NIR GM

Whitehead: 06:00

Belfast Central: 06:35

Portadown: 07:34

Dundalk: 08:15 - 09:35

Dublin Connolly: 10:58

RPSI Mk2s + NIR GM

Dublin Connolly: 11:20

Dundalk:12:35

Portadown: 13:10

Belfast Central: 13:47

York Road: 14:07

NIR GM Light Engine

York Road: 17:50

Belfast Central: 18:15

Portadown:18:55

Dundalk: 19:30

Dublin Connolly: 20:30

RPSI Mk2 + 85

York Road: 18:05

Belfast Central: 18:17 - 19:05

Portadown: 19:40

Dundalk: 20:23 - 20:50

Dublin Connolly: 22:00

RPSI Mk2s + NIR GM

Dublin Connolly: 22:20

Dundalk: 23:19

Portadown: 23:53

Belfast Central: 00:30

Whitehead: 00:55

As with everything take this as a rough guide as things can and do get changed. If there is anything I have not covered or any questions please feel free to ask.

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Thursday 18th June

RPSI Mk2s + NIR GM

Dublin Connolly: 11:20

Dundalk:12:35

Portadown: 13:10

Belfast Central: 13:47

RPSI Mk2 + 85

Belfast Central: 19:05

Dublin Connolly: (I am not sure of arrival time yet)

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Friday 19th June

RPSI 461 Light Engine

Dublin Connolly: 07:45

Kildare: 08:58

Portarlington:09:14

RPSI 85 +Cravens

Dublin Connolly: 08:40

Kildare: 09:37

Portarlington 09:51

At Portarlington there will be a loco change with 461 taking the Cravens on to Galway and 85 proceeding light engine to Limerick.

RPSI 461 + Cravens

Portarlington: 10:27

Tullamore: 10:52 - 11:02

Clara: 11:15 - 11:22

Athlone: 11:57 - 14:20

Ballinasloe: 14:46 - 15:09

Woodlawn: 15:33 - 15:38

Athenry: 16:01

Galway 16:26

RPSI 85 Light engine

Portarlington: 10:10

Thurles: 11:04 - 11:42

Limerick Junction : 12:08 (I believe it will enter the station so it can turn)

Limerick : 12:49

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Saturday 20th June

There is no Steam operations on this day

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Sunday 21st June

RPSI 461 + Cravens

Galway: 09:40

Athenry: 10:00 - 10:33

Gort: 10:59 - 11:11

Ennis: 11:36

Limerick 12:33

In Limerick a loco change will take place with 85 taking over for the journey to Killarney and 461 remains in Limerick

RPSI 85 + Cravens

Limerick: 14:30

Limerick Junction: 15:05

Mallow: 15:51 - 16:43

Banteer: 16:57

Millstreet: 17:08

Rathmore: 17:17

Killarney: 17:40

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Monday 22nd June

RPSI 85 + Cravens

Killarney: 15:45

Farranfore: 16:12

Tralee: 16:30 - 18:20

Farranfore: 18:37 - 18:42

Killarney: 19:12

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Tuesday 23rd June

RPSI 461 Light Engine

Limerick: 10:00

Limerick Junction:10:39

RPSI 85 + Cravens

Killarney: 08:45

Banteer: 09:32 - 09:50

Mallow: 10:10

Charleville: 10:32 - 11:09

Limerick Junction: 11:43

At Limerick Junction a loco change will happen with 461 taking the Cravens on to Waterford via Tipperary and 85 will continue on to Kilkenny via Kildare light engine

RPSI 461 + Cravens

Limerick Junction: 10:04

Tipperary: 12:19 - 12:49

Clonmel: 13:26 - 13:56

Carrick on Suir: 14:27

Waterford: 15:00

RPSI 85 Light Engine

Limerick Junction: 11:59

Thurles: 12:28 - 12:58

Portarlington: 13:53 - 14:20

Kildare: 14:36 - 14:47

Athy: 15:11 - 15:38

Carlow: 15:56 - 16:20

Muine Bheag: 16:37

Kilkenny: 17:01

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Wednesday 24th June

RPSI 461 + Cravens

Waterford: 11:25

Ballyhale: 11:49 - 12:04

Thomastown: 12:13

Kilkenny: 12:34

At Kilkenny a loco change will take place with 461 proceeding light engine back to Dublin Connolly followed by 85 with the Cravens

RPSI 461 Light engine

Kilkenny: 13:47

Muine Bheag: 14:22 - 14:27

Carlow: 14:42

Athy: 14:58 - 15:18

Kildare: 15:41

Dublin Connolly: 16:36

RPSI 85 + Cravens

Kilkenny: 15:50

Muine Bheag: 16:13 - 16:21

Carlow: 16:35

Athy: 16:48 - 17:36

Kildare: 18:00

Dublin Connolly: 19:07

It is not in the appendix to the wtt, what you would need is a copy of the signaling rules and regulations

I've bought bargains on eBay myself, but some of the garbage offered by others for sake makes you think they are either seriously deluded or they've got a cheek!

As long as people keep buying it more will keep appearing, I remember back when the lima 201s were at their peak on ebay you saw all sorts of crap with "Irish Railways" in the title trying to get people interested.

I've just received one today.

Not me, not in my spam either. I will just sign up again and see if that fixes it.

In all fairness, the bidders probably did not know of the Sale at Marks Models. After all, many folk on this forum only became aware of the Sale when someone mentioned it here!

Now that you mention it, I used to get update emails from marks models but I don't seem to get them any more. Did they stop or is it just me?

I may have a few old rule books somewhere which I may be able to sell - if anyone's interested PM me and I'll have a delve.

pm sent

The rule books would have been based on a Railway Clearing House standard set of rules with little difference between the ones used here and the ones used in Britain.

Think Junctionmad is looking for something more specific to Irish/CIE conditions.

The ones I am talking about are the CIE signaling regulations for double and single lines. They do appear often on ebay

The rule books pop up on ebay every now and then for about a tenner.

It looks like the shunt disk and limit of shunt at the Dublin end of Claremorris were removed at some stage, I would guess at the same time that they took out the main junction to Athenry, I can see it in the video of the 141/121 running around in 1997 but not in the video of the 071 un 2003.

Also given that the 121 has two tail lamps fitted I would think it was heading back towards Athenry for some other duty rather than just running around or shunting.

another new picture from today for you

Kind of reminds me a bit of this guy who has a class 50 cab in his garden. When I was younger I always wanted one of these for playing train simulator, wonder if it could be made to work with a 141

Ha, no worries... it happens to me, too. I must say I enjoyed browsing through those photos.

The problem for me with looking at old photos is I get grand ideas for layouts that I have no space to build

I am now having one of those why the hell didn't I think of that moments