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the lighting coming in the roof in the first photo of 073 is something else

the ticket now has a new owner

my mistake

lamps like that used to be used in all sorts of carages including those for passengers. one of the RPSIs carages used that sort of lamp even in preservation https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/rpsi-collection/21/861-tri-composite-brake

i am no longer around that day to do the railtour so i am giving away my 1 adult behind the loco ticket anybody interested can send me a private message. first come first served

that video keeps coming up for me as well at the moment.

just got word from BNM that some of the locomotives currently displayed at boora are to become part of a new display. also it seems that all track lifting has stopped. there was a crew working on it a month ago however they have stopped.

what will society be in 50 years

thats strange. ill look into it

a few indide lads i know have sayed that the roof will be rebuilt exactly as it was before. as far as i can tell it will be done as part of this project

thats it alright

i was recently speaking to somebody who has been getting the train from Dublin to cork for over 20 years. i mentioned to them that it was a pity that cork signal box was demolished. they looked at me with a puzzled look and asked me what i was on about. somehow they had never noticed the signal box and did not know what it did. i have therefore decided to make a Youtube video about the old signal box. i was wondering if anybody had any old footage, photos or stories they wanted included in the video. thanks

i defnetly remember seeing somthing about an irish rail 071 rescueing a DD set with pasengers on board within the last year

have you tried looking for an old version of the fotopic website on the wayback mashine

great to see an oldie but a goodie like back again

another great youtube channel. cant wait to spend a bit of time looking at your marvelous models

looking great

i wonder if we blow the whistles outside Eamon Ryan's house will he build more railways faster

it was indeed. unfortunately i missed the wisle blowing as i was in the stradbally woodland railway at the time

the poor 29000s always get a hard time. a few friends i know who live on the Dublin to cork mainline often refer to the 071s as the sleep in spoilers

the trains are battery electric meaning they will be able to reach some places without electrification. id say that will reduce the urgency and speed of this work.

for children introduction to things such as toy trains are great. when i was a young lad i had a brilliant thomas related plastic railway thing. whelst i do prefair the woden ones now this particuler toy set was great in that it had things which allowed the power to be taken from the trains to power things such as ballast loaders. for people in there teens interested in getting interested in the hobby i can think of 2 main barriars. the first one which you mentioned (bullying), however the one i noticed alot and is specific to ireland is lack of imfo for railway intusiasts. lets say you are a beginner train spotter and you want to know when freight trains are. in places like england there are to my knolage different apps or systems or somthuing that provide that sort of imformation. hear in ireland well. to give an idea when i started i literaly spent 24 hours in a field near maynooth station waiting to see if there was freight and if so when. of corse i saw nothing so i did it agian and again. until one day i gave up. if irish rail gave more imformation about thngs like freight timetables or even gave us the weekly circular new railway intusaists woudl find things much easear.

some have started to call her the "flying chipper"

i think there is one in whitehead excursion signil box

season 4 of michal portelo great railway jurneys has some episodes in ireland (michal palin great railway journeys derry to kerry) (channel 4 program about railways in ireland 1980s) (history of irish railways by RTE 1990s) (off the beten trac RTE 1997)