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Good evening all, A few shots from today at Heuston, Inchicore and Portlaoise, including: A lost 22049 8208 and 206 in Inchicore ICR's at Portlaoise and Heuston 85 taking water at Portlaoise 234 and 219 passing Portlaoise Full set can be seen here - Regards, Kieran

Correct - but the HEP generator was driven directly off the engine

Nowhere near first run - been out and about since mid February, but has been restricted to freight and test runs

Head End Power generator caught fire in the engine room

Good afternoon all, A few pictures from the RPSI's "The Strand" railtour yesterday. Despite getting drenched in rain a good day was had by all. Locations include: Portlaoise, Monasterevin, Kildare, Sallins, Hazelhatch on the way in Connolly, Drumcondra, Clonsilla and M3 Parkway Newcomen Junction Bray Greystones Kilcoole Wicklow Gorey Enniscorthy Wexford Rosslare All photos can be viewed here - Saturday brough 85 through Portlaoise and a quick trip out to get a snap All photos can be seen here - Regards, Kieran

Calpped out GSV doesn't cover it! Great day, crap weather and no heat to dry off a bit!

Electrification is mooted at 125mph, along with the electrification of all of Northern Ireland. 2050 and 2040 respectively were mentioned last year. As for ICRs - I think they are comfortable enough (except for Premier Class - can't get comfy in them at all). Having travelled about 13,000 miles in them since they were introduced (11720 since September), they run well, aren't overly noisy and light and airy. The problem of overcrowding on morning and evening services actually has nothing to do with the rolling stock as is - it's about the procurement of them. The basic rolling shell is fine - it's how many of them the accountants wanted. They could have been a lot, lot worse - just look at the UK Voyagers!

When 080 is released from Inchicore, it will have the fourth style of grey livery - no numbers, original big numbers, spaced out big numbers and now more rounded spaced out numbers!

DiveController - no, they still run. Wednesday is the loaded train Thursday the empties Nice shots folks!

Good afternoon all, A final April update from me, with photos from both the 29th and 30th April. Wednesday, 29th April: Photos from Portlaoise, Heuston, Inchicore, Kildare and Sallins, featuring 4008, 078 and 218 amongst others. All photos can be seen here - Thursday, 30th April: Mainly photos from Portarlington with a couple from Kildare and Heuston. This sees 219 and 087 at Portarlington All photos can be seen here - Regards, Kieran

CAWS is on the Dublin-Cork, Dublin-Dundalk, Dublin-Maynooth and some parts of the Galway and Waterford routes. In all respects, bar signal indication repitition, it is the same as AWS. ATP is used for DART services but is being combined with CAWS at the moment (Howth branch and Maynooth - Enfield are fitted)

Equally here rebelred - although mine is photography and model railways! Spent about €1000 on camera equipment over the last year, and probably got about the same amount of stock stored away, waiting for me to get some solder! Still, you learn some great skills along the way - such as soldering!

Good afternoon all, A few photos from Portlaoise today, to get 233 on Cork line Mark 4 workings. All photos can be seen here - Regards, Kieran

I have a lot more Riversuir! The OpenBVE model of the 201 is based upon my photos (with permission). If anyone needs a detail of a 201, PM me as I see them every day at the moment!

Good afternoon all, A few photos from Wednesday and Thursday, with Monasterevin, Heuston and Portlaoise being the locations. 215 and 233 are the two locos featured. All of Wednesday's shots can be found here - All of Thursday's shots can be found here - Regards, Kieran

They have apid for the overhaul of 216 and another, as yet unidentified, 201. Locos will have IÉ Crew and be maintained and owned by IÉ

208 and 209 would be required on a daily basis for Enterprise work, so more likely 111-113, as they seem to spend most of their time idle

Good evening all, A few photos from Kildare and Heuston, including ICR's, 071's and 201's Full shet of shots can be found here - Regards, Kieran

Evening all, Some photos from yesterday's Engineering Works. The timetable was marred by various trespass incidents between Kidlare and Portarlington in the afternoon. Still, nice weather at least! Regards, Kieran

Nice work! I'd say grey primer for the body

Indeed, 206 is in the more complete livery, as seen at Portarlington: 8208 is the next one, currently in the works at Inchicore.

But would the sub even know it had caught a trawler?

Appears to be a replacement set of bogies Railer - possibly excess wear on the old ones --------- Evening all, An afternoon spent on the box at Islandbridge Jn, including ICR action, 229 on the afternoon IWT and 077 on a HOBS transfer Regards, Kieran

Good evening all, A major update from me tonight, featuring shots from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday: Shots from Kildare and Heuston, with 22039, 222, 215 and 223 in attendance at Heuston Tuesday: Just a quick photo of 22036 in the morning and 741 in Tullamore Wednesday: 215 on the 1900 Heuston - Cork and a few others Regards, Kieran

Evening all, A few photos from today from Portlaoise, Portarlington and Monasterevin, including 088 LE to Portlaoise, 075 on the Up IWT and 084 stabled 4001 passes Portarlington, 7/4/15 by hurricanemk1c, on Flickr 075 passes Portarlington, 7/4/15 by hurricanemk1c, on Flickr All photos can be seen - Regards, Kieran