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June 2024 was a quiet enough, catching up from various trips away and being busy in work. The main event of the month was the RPSI trip to Rosslare with a 201, and due to other commitments was unable to travel fully on that. Click on the photo below to view them all

Supposed to have been one on 13 November 2022. Fuel range is an issue for the sets to work through so has to be carefully planned. It certainly ran south of the border

Interesting stuff, it does confirm a suspicion I've had for a long time (and unable to prove) that the Internationals did have a slightly different body profile to a normal Mk3. In some photos it looked pronounced compared to a EGV, in others pretty much identical, not helped by the differently sized and placed windows

May 2024 saw the Northern Lights (along with an attempt to get a train in photo!), the Irish Railway Record Society "Time's Arrow" railtour with retro painted 2601+2602, the movement of 2751 from Cork to Limerick, along with another UK trip primarily to see Bruce Dickinson at home in Nottingham. Click on the photos below to view them all Regards, Kieran

I'd be fascinated at the scans, drawings are always an interest to me!

I messed that up, should be the other way around (despite checking it 5 or 6 times). 90000 BEMU, 80000 EMU

That's a gearing thing, as the locos thus far ordered are for heavy (and far heavier than an Irish) freight work. The 99s for example should have more tractive power than a 66 starting off even in diesel mode. Vossloh / Stadler built Class 68s and 88s are 100mph locos Nothing stopping a 160km/hr / 200km/hr version being produced

Because there's only one station in Drogheda and Dundalk, whereas there's three in Dublin that officially start with "Dublin". As for the others, that's questions for Translink directly

After a few days back in work, I was off again for a quick weekend in the UK, primarily for family matters but a bit of travel was undertaken too! Click on the photo below to view them all April 2024 saw me once again in the UK, with visits to York, Doncaster, Derby and Sheffield on the agenda this time: Regards, Kieran

And where would all these spare Mark 4 sets come from, considering they are all diagramed for Cork services? Nice - maybe. Practical - no

Final photos from my European trip, finishing off with a trip from Brussel to Luxembourg to catch my flight home. Click on the photo below to view them all Regards, Kieran

Sunday 17 March 2024 saw me heading around the Netherlands, starting out of Amsterdam and heading for Amersfoort Centraal, followed by Utrecht, 's-Hertogenbosch, Breda, Den Haag and back to Amsterdam, before heading for Brussel-Zuid. Click on the photo below to view them all

More photos from March 2024, carrying on my European trip. This time starting out of Ramstein, I crossed into Luxembourg and was able to cover pretty much the entire country over the course of two days (could have done it in one, but had things to do). One line was closed due to engineering work so a repeat visit needed to clear that small part! Then it was onto the Netherlands via Belgium, visiting Liege, Amsterdam and Amersfoort. Click on the photo below to view them all

Trying to catch up on a long list of photos waiting to upload! In March 2024 I went on a bit of a tour of Europe, taking in a concert, annual leave and a work trip all in one. I started off in Switzerland, for the launch show for the new Illumishade album in Zurich. While there, I spent some time in the Gotthard valley along with nearly getting into Italy via the FART railway. Photos below: After Switzerland I headed to Germany, staying in Munich and visiting Nuremberg, Braunau-am-Inn (just cross the border into Austria), Dachau and a few other places, before making my way to the last overnight stop in Ramstein, before heading to Luxembourg (photos to follow). German photos below: Regards, Kieran

Approx 85 on the Saturday, about 40 on the Sunday.