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About the fifth loco I've heard to be converted! Ultimately new locos should be bought rather than messing around like this

September 2024 saw the first of three trips in short succession to the Netherlands for two concerts and a work conference. The first day was a simple enough trip from Amsterdam to Apeldoorn via Amersfoort. The following day was a more involved day, with a good amount spent on the VSM railway in Apeldoorn, before a circuitous route from Apeldoorn to Amsterdam and return to catch the Berlin train on divert via Lelystad The third day was a trip to Paschendale, where I had ancestors fighting in the First World War. Having started at Apeldoorn, I finished in Utrecht Day 4 of this particular trip was a day trip to the railway museum in Utrecht, along with a quick spin to Amersfoort before the Marko Hietala concert The final day was just killing time before the flight back to Dublin, with a trip back from Utrecht to Amsterdam via Ede-Wageningen, Amersfoort, Amsterdam Science Park and Hilversum Click on any of the photos to view them all from that day Regards, Kieran Cl

August was another quiet month, which saw the launch of the latest (then) preserved Wagonmaster in Stradbally, and the opening of the latest Iarnród Éireann station in Kishoge. Click on the photo below to view them all

July 2024 was another quiet month, with the main event being the DART40 launch in Grand Canal Dock Regards, Kieran

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