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Evening all, Some pictures from the past few days. Click http://smu.gs/1DTgilb to view.

Morning all! Pictures from Sunday's RPSI Specials on the Great Northern Mainline from Connolly to Drogheda, Dundalk and Skerries have now been uploaded. Click the http://smu.gs/1f2qXhJ to view.

Evening all, I slipped out this morning for a few hours and have pictures from: - Portarlington - Heuston - Adamstown. - Carn Bridge. - Commons Bridge. Highlights include 229 and 220 on the Up and Down IWT Liners, plus (8)209 on the 1100 Heuston to Cork. Click http://smu.gs/1gn3xVm to view.

Today features visits to Ratheven, Clonkeen, Killenard and Portarlington, mainly for more photos of (8)209. Click the picture below to access the gallery. Follow me on Facebook and Twitter for regular updates and a look back to times past on the Irish railway network.

Good evening folks, Today's photographic efforts include Northern Ireland Railways owned (8)209 on Dublin - Cork services, plus locos 217 and 219 were on two of the other diagrams. Click http://smu.gs/1SPnyWd or click the picture underneath to view. Follow me on Facebook and Twitter for regular updates and a look back to times past on the Irish railway network.

Evening folks, Pictures from the past few days. Saturday: - Portarlington with 073 on a Spoil train and 2X3ICR on the 1125 Heuston - Galway. - Adamstown with a 4 car 2600 Class DMU on the 1720 Cork - Heuston after the earlier failure of the 1300 Heuston - Cork. Working of the year I should think. Photo courtesy of Domhnall Ó Muirí. Tuesday: Evening visit to Carn Bridge for the usual mix of 22000 Class + 232 on the 1700 Heuston - Cork. Click http://smu.gs/1JKAlDt to view.

218 working today's North Wall - Ballina Liner. Click the picture to view the images.

Evening all, Some pictures from the last two days around Portarlington. Also includes details of the renumbering of reformed vehicles in sets 22011 to 22030. Click http://smu.gs/1JDKldr or click the picture to view. The Wanderer.

Evening all, Some pictures from last Friday that feature MK3 carriage 7122 waiting export to Scotland at North Wall, along with 076 on a Spoil Train plus emergency engineering works on the LUAS Red Line near Jervis. Click http://smu.gs/1GwhyoQ to view. The Wanderer.

Afternoon all, Pictures from yesterdays Irish Railway Record Society Special from Dublin Connolly to Ballina and Westport has now been uploaded to http://smu.gs/1HCBsT6 3 x 071 Class Locomotives were used during the day with 087 hauling the train from Connolly to Ballina, 078 from Ballina to Claremorris and Westport where it promptly failed with a forward / reverser fault. 084 came to the rescue and hauled the locomotive off the train prior to working the tour back to Connolly. As always an enjoyable day out, despite the miserable weather conditions west of the River Shannon. Full Credit must go to the IRRS Program Officer Shane Roberts for organising another successful tour and if the questionnaire handed out about options for the 2016 tour comes to fruition then that tour promises to be a cracker of a weekend. Also we cannot forget the RPSI and IE staff involved in the operation of the tour and to making it such a great day out. Also the last of my images from the recent UK trip have been uploaded which has pictures from around London on Friday, plus the flight back to Dublin. Click http://smu.gs/1HCBOJn to view. For all the pictures of the week long trip you can access al the galleries at Enjoy, The Wanderer.

On the last day of the Rover (Friday) I undertook an out and back trip from London to Exeter and then an evening in London. Click http://smu.gs/1HZD5aE to view.

Continuing my UK trip. On Wednesday, we left Inverness and headed along the scenic railway line to Kyle of Lochalsh. At Kyle we boarded a West Coast Motors (Citylink) bus from there to Portree on the Isle of Skye where we had a break for two hours to explore the town. Later in the afternoon we caught a Stagecoach Local Bus from Portree to Armadale to connect into the 1720 hrs sailing to Mallaig. From Mallaig the next stop was Fort William for a quick change onto the Caledonian Sleeper to London. Click http://smu.gs/1J61ikH to view.

Morning folks, The latest update to my UK travels is from Tuesday. It was a simple out and back from Inverness. We caught the 0702 train from Inverness to Thurso (a mere 154 miles away) before catching a bus to John O'Groats. After a short break there we caught a 2nd bus to Wick before starting the long trek back to Inverness on the 1600 ex Wick. This is the last train from the town each day. Click http://smu.gs/1MeGARy to view.

Today we headed to the Scottish Highlands by train and bus. First of all we headed north to Oban on the 0821 Glasgow Queen Street - Oban / Mallaig. After a short break at Oban we caught the 918 bus to Fort William at 1240, a quick change of bus at Fort William onto the 919 brought us onto Inverness where we will be staying for the next two nights. Click http://smu.gs/1gxzUB1 to view.

Morning all, Images from my UK trip: Friday: Dublin to Edinburgh via Manchester. Saturday: A day around Edinburgh. Sunday: A trip to North Berwick before heading to Glasgow. Click http://smu.gs/1gwwcYm to access the galleries.

Good morning all! Two updates this morning: Thursday 9th July 2015: 076 failed near Cherryville Jct. whie working the 1330 North Wall - Ballina IWT Liner causing serious disruption to the evening peak service to and from Heuston Station. Some pictures from Portarlington. Friday 10th July 2015: A few images from Portarlington and North Wall. Click http://smu.gs/1L447Tq to view. The second updates features the start of my UK trip which started on Friday with a trip from Dublin to Manchester and then by train to Edinburgh. Click http://smu.gs/1JV7Iom to view. Both pages can also be accessed from the home page at http://thewandererphotos.com

A couple of shots from today which includes ex works 087 on the IWT Liner. Click http://smu.gs/1dMulg4 to view. The Wanderer.

Two items of interest from today with 072 hauling failed 218 and 4 stored LP wagons from Ballina to Inchicore and 231 on the spoil train at Portarlington. Click http://smu.gs/1eDjqpU to view.

Evening all, Sunday 5th July 2015: Killarney was the setting for the Munster Football Final between Kerry & Cork today. For the occasion there was a Spl. from Tralee and a Spl. from Cork, plus the regular services. The pattern of services to Killarney before the match was: 0855 Cork - Tralee (4ICR 22012). 0955 Cork - Killarney Spl. (3ICR 22051). 1055 Tralee - Killarney Spl. (5ICR 22031). 0830 Heuston - Tralee (2X3ICR 22049 + 22005). 1150 Tralee - Heuston (4ICR 22012). All services were heavily loaded and the 0830 ex Heuston was increased from 5ICR to 2X3ICR on this day. Click http://smu.gs/1HFLAf4 to view.

Evening all, Images from Friday are from a trip from Portlaoise to Killarney via Limerick Jct. and Cork. Click http://smu.gs/1FYxVu3 to view. The Wanderer.

Evening all, Some more shots from this evening at Carn Bridge and the Barrow Viaduct at Monasterevin, includes a better view of 209. Click http://smu.gs/1JDdVlR to view. If you had issues accessing the website earlier I do apologise for that. The problem took longer to resolve than planned. All should be ok now. The Wanderer.

Morning all, Northern Ireland Railways owned (8)209 has been released from Inchicore works following completion of its cab modifications. The opportunity was also taken to finish repainting it in the full Enterprise livery. The locomotive is pictured at Deerpark, Portarlington with the 0700 Heuston - Cork earlier this morning. Click http://smu.gs/1dzDatA to view.

Evening all, Two updates from Monday: - Lunchtime at Rosskelton and evening at Shanderry. Click http://smu.gs/1GKDhtM to view. - Bord na Mon Derryounce Bog. Click http://smu.gs/1BUNF6o

Evening all, Photos from the past week around the Iarnrod Eireann network. Includes: - Portauns (Kilmallock). - Portarlington. - Portlaoise. - Limerick Jct. - Limerick. - Mallow. - Cork. - Banteer. - Rathmore. - Killarney. Photos begin at http://smu.gs/1KiHMRR

Evening all, The final Irish leg of the Steam Dreams "Emerald Isle Explorer" operated on Wednesday 24th June. In the morning the tour visited the world-famous Waterford Crystal, before heading off to the station for an 1125 departure to Kilkenny, hauled by 461 where a two hour break was taken. Also at Kilkenny 85, replaced 461 for the final dash northwards across Ireland for an early evening arrival in Dublin for the final night in Ireland. For todays photos I popped over to Athy for the watering stop and also got the tour at Cush, a few miles north of the town. Click http://smu.gs/1IzjDlK to view todays photos. For a recap of the parts of the tour I covered since last Friday click http://smu.gs/1LjIUqa The RPSI operates with a small band of active volunteers and it is a credit to this group of people that they have achieved so much in preparation for this tour, such as refurbishment of the cravens and the daily tasks in ensuring that the tour operated smoothly. Want to get involved? Check out http://www.steamtrainsireland.com/helpingus/ for more information. A short summery of images from the past several days.