thewanderer

Evening folks, The main events of the past two days have been the use of Belmond liveried 216 on several Dublin - Cork trains folllwoing the failure of 221 at Mallow on Saturday night. 216 was the standby loco at Cork and was pressed into service on the Sunday working: 1220 Cork - Heuston with 4006. 1900 Heuston- Cork with 4001. On Monday 23rd January the loco worked the following services: 0715 Cork - Mallow empty. 0800 Mallow - Cork 0920 Cork - Heuston 1300 Heuston - Cork 1620 Cork - Heuston. Click http://smu.gs/2iXlu2P to view the pictures and videos.

Friday 20th January 2017: A varied day today with pictures of an early morning Heineken Ireland Private Charter from Cork to Dublin Heuston and other pictures from Portarlington, Portlaoise, Cork, Mallow and Killarney. Click http://smu.gs/2iKvxID to view.

Thursday 19th January 2017: A few lunchtime photos from Clonkeen, mainly to see a Mallow - Inchicore trial train. Click the picture below to see all the images.

Good evening folks, Tuesday 17th January 2017: There was considerable disruption to the Westport line after the 1140 Ballina - North Wall IWT Liner failed near Balla Station. It was rescued by 088 and hauled 073 and its train to North Wall. I photographed and videoed it passing Portarlington about 140 minutes late, along with a couple of ICR sets and 229 on the 1800 Heuston - Cork. Click http://smu.gs/2j6m9Ly to view all the images and video.

Evening all, The final batch of images from the London trip have now been uploaded. Featuring pictures from the scene of the awful Croydon Tramlink accident on 9th November 2016, before heading to Hayes and back into London Bridge & Blackfriars for a train to Gatwick. Click http://smu.gs/2jt8CAO to view.

No he was learning the road (yesterday!)

Evening all, The next batch of photos from my weekend in London have now been uploaded to the website. The main event of the day was the Branch Line Society's "The Vossloh Voyager" which traversed three much sought after depot / yard lines and other interesting track including East Putney in both directions. The 8-coach train was formed of the two Class 455 EMUs that have been recently used as the test bed for the new Vossloh Kiepe three phase AC traction motor project – 5732 and 5870. In recognition of the special train, all profits will be donated to SWT's nominated charity, Railway Benefit Fund (RBF). A grand total of £14,500 was raised. All the photos from the railtour can be viewed at http://smu.gs/2iXMmvt The other non-railtour images from Saturday include visits to: - Clapham Jct. - Waterloo. - Stockwell. - Brixton - Kingly Court Underground Station. It's not what you think it is These can be viewed at http://smu.gs/2jetJEH

Morning all, I'm in London this weekend for a railtour on the Saturday. The first batch of images from Friday have now been uploaded to http://smu.gs/2jhyDTj The photos start at Dublin Airport and feature such exotic locations as Greenford and Stratford plus many more.

Evening all, A trip to Dublin this morning. Very handy when needing to go to Connolly area of the city to use the Phoenix Park Tunnel services. Pictures are from: Sallins Connolly Malahide - highlight being 085 on the afternoon Tara. Portarlington. Click http://smu.gs/2jF9xi8 to view all the photos.

Evening folks, Monday 9th January 2017: The day starts off in Limerick before heading to Dublin to see retro CIE liveried 071 on the 0920 Tara Mines to North Wall laden working. Click http://smu.gs/2i79zz9 to view all the images.

Evening folks, Several photos from the weekend at Portarlington, Portlaoise, Ballybrophy, Birdhil, Killonan and Ennis. Click http://smu.gs/2i5BB9m to view.

Evening all, I didn't think my first train trip of 2017 would be on a 22000 set on the Nenagh branch! But that is what happened today. Due to a large number of passengers travelling to Limerick this morning on the 1005 Ballybrophy - Limerick service, mostly from Cloughjordan, which was organised by the Nenagh Rail Partnership for their annual outing to "Limerick on Ice" (Ice skating). Iarnrod Eireann decided to allocate the Limerick - Limerick Jct ICR set to the evening Ballybrophy service. I travelled north from Nenagh to Ballybrophy on it. Click http://smu.gs/2iBLyPQ

Thanks Noel. Tuesday 3rd January 2017: We start off the 2017 pictures with a visit to Ratheven outside Portlaoise to photograph 076 hauling failed 234 from Cork to Inchicore plus the usual MKIV and 22000 sets on passenger traffic. Click http://smu.gs/2iLRIdG to view all the images.

With 2017 upon us its time to reveal the 2016 Year in Review. This gallery contains over 400 photos and videos from the past 12 months from the railways of Ireland. Enjoy the gallery and let's hope 2017 will be just as interesting. From a personal viewpoint the painting of 071 into its original CIE Supertrain livery was certainly the highlight of the year for me. Let's see what 2017 will bring us.... Click http://smu.gs/2hX3lNX to view.

Evening folks, The final photos of 2016 are from Nenagh to see the final train of 2016 to pass through the station. 2817 + 2818 1905 Ballybrophy - Limerick. May I take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy & Prosperous New Year! Click http://smu.gs/2hAsCwv to see the full size image.

That's never happened here and I can't see it happening. Assistance usually comes from the front.

Evening all, Friday 30th December was another poor day for the loco fleet with 234 working the 0900 Heuston - Cork failing between Mallow and Cork in the Burnfort area. Cork Thunderbird 229 was sent to assist it and hauled it into Cork where it arrived 90 minutes late. Photos from the day include Clonkeen, Lisduff & Templemore showing 201 Class and MKIV sets. Click http://smu.gs/2hCDDSQ to view.

Evening folks, Thursday 29th December 2016: As dusk was falling I visited Portarlington station to photograph 231 hauling failed MKIV set 4006 and loco 218 from Ballybrophy to Heuston. The loco had failed while working the 1220 Cork - Heuston and was terminated at Ballybrophy with passengers transferred to the following 1320 Cork - Heuston. Plus photos of a few other odds and sods. Click http://smu.gs/2iJqAiT to view all the images.

Evening folks, Saturday 24th December 2016: Just one from Killarney showing 22030 departing from the station with the 1305 Tralee - Mallow. Click http://smu.gs/2hC0nyc to view the full size image. May I also take this opportunity to wish all visitors to the website a very Merry and Peaceful Christmas.

Evening all, Friday 23rd December 2016: A stop off at Ballybrophy to photograph up and down MKIV operated Cork services. Click http://smu.gs/2hk6XgR to view.

Evening all, The final batch of photos from the RPSI Santa Specials on Saturday have now been uploaded to the website which features a trip to Greystones on the diesel hauled special. Plus a visit to Cherryville on Sunday lunchtime to see 234 pass on the 1200 Heuston - Cork. Click http://smu.gs/2hMS7fX to view. To view all the images from Friday through to Sunday click http://smu.gs/2hcbH3Z

Afternoon all, Pictures of the first two RPSI Santa Spls from Pearse to Greystones are now online at http://smu.gs/2hcbH3Z The update also includes various EMU and ICR photos on the southside DART line. Enjoy! The Wanderer.

I would echo Broithe's comments. I do know a certain man from Cork nearly was banned but there was no legal way to enforce it afaik. As for type of trouble? Don't know the details, usually get a alert "delayed due to passenger trouble. Gardai called". That could be as minor as a passenger refusing to buy/show a ticket to a fight on a train. Although the fights do tend to get mentioned in the alerts!

Today was the worst day I can remember in a long time for antisocial behaviour and gardai needing to be called to the train to remove disruptive "customers". Along with the above two incidents, there were another three incidents which required Gardai to be called to remove or deal with passengers. None of the trains involved would what would be called "returning home after a party" train.

Good evening folks I've spent the evening catching up on the photos since last weekend. The December gallery has images from: - Limerick - Ballybrophy - Newbridge - Adamstown - Drumcondra - Broombridge - Cabra: 226 on the IWT Liner. - Heuston: 231 on the 1900 to Cork plus ICR's on the 1935 to Galway. Click http://smu.gs/2gOOrNn to view. Also updated is the LUAS Cross City line with a long overdue photographic survey of the route between Broombridge and St. Stephen's Green. Fantastic progress has been made on the entire route with all the track laid in the city centre and a good portion of the route between Broadstone and Broombridge is also laid. Due to the atrocious weather on this day with heavy rain, several of the photographs aren't to the standard I would aspire to. Click http://smu.gs/2hpOpe7 to view.