hurricanemk1c

Good afternoon all, Today has been an ununsual day. Due to the failure of the 0600 Cork - Heuston at Newbridge (no idea what the problem was), trains were running late across the Heuston network. And of course it had snowed. I decided to head for Hazelhatch for some different photos, but ended up spending about 10 minutes there due to late running. Here are the photos - Regards, Kieran

Good evening all, First, a bit of history. It has been 1 year since the last 6-car Class 22000 operated on the network. The honour fell to 22040 and it worked the 1810 Heuston - Portlaoise commuter service. This allowed it to return to Laois Traincare Depot where 22540 was removed and would be placed into 22020. A photo of it after arrival into Portlaoise may be seen here - From today (13/1/15), some snowy pictures from Portlaoise - Thanks for looking, Kieran

Evening all, A few from me (sort of) this evening I have been given some photos of 087 and the 201's I was missing as indiviual photos by Peter076. These can be viewed here - One photo that missed out on being published in 2014 was this one of the Weedsprayer tanks at Portlaoise - And finally January 2015 kicks off with a couple of photos from Portlaoise PW - Regards, Kieran

Steam and Mark 2 Aircons - excellent!

It was the only one converted from a UK Mark 3. As 'josefstadt' said, 6401 was part of the International set and is significantly different to a standard Mark 3, with basically only the interior the same as a standard Mark 3. Different bodyshell, construction method, doors, bogies - the lot. Whereas 6402 has standard BT22 bogies (as shared with 6105 and 7146, both preserved) and also worked with Mark 3 Push/Pull sets, something which 6401 never did. 6402 in service with a Push/Pull rake -

Thanks Heirflick!

Good evening, My personal Year in Review is now available to view, featuring some of my best and rare photos from the year. Full details below: January 2014: 232 failed with the 1800 Heuston - Cork on the 4th and was recessed at Laois Traincare Depot whilst a rescue loco was sent for it. 085 on a rail train on the 11th The last 6 car ICR (22040) worked the 1810 Heuston - Portlaoise on the 13th A school visit to Maynooth on the 20th yielded a new photo location February 2014 Cossington (UK) with a Canon DSLR on the 20th TM781 passing Portlaoise on the 28th March 2014 077, 084, 2812+2811, 2803+2804+2805+2806 at Portarlington on the 5th Tom Ryan on the 1100 Heuston - Cork on the 8th 082 at Laois Traincare Depot having delivered 22014 on the 11th Ratheven on the 15th The Curragh on the 17th A trip to Kildare on the 22nd The Sperry Train on the 25th Dublin area on the 29th April 2014 2800's at Portlaoise on the 4th 086 on the Steel Train on the 5th and the 12th 2809+2810 with new logos on the 16th 088 on the Wagon Transfer on the 17th 081 with the Sperry on the 18th 088 on the Wagon Transfer on the 24th May 2014 Rail Replacement fun at Portlaoise on the 3rd 082 on the Steel Train on the 10th RPSI Railtours to Galway and the Dublin Area on the 16th / 17th 229 in Portlaoise PW on the 21st June 2014 Weedspray in action at Rosskelton on the 4th Great Central Railways and Loughborough on the 21st My last Class 60 on the 23rd NET Tram on the 23rd Peak Rail on the 25th Skegness on the 28th July 2014 Nottingham Castle on the 2nd IRRS Railtour to Waterford and Limerick with 078, 079 and 074 August 2014 Trip to Cork and Glouthaune on the 1st 22014 trail run on the 21st Tamper Transfers at Portlaoise and Clonkeen September 2014 Wagon Transfer at Clonkeen on the 2nd TM700, 084 and 461 at Ratheven on the 4th TM790 and 461 on the 5th 215's first run in revised Intercity colours at Portarlington on the 8th 215 first passenger run on the 18th October 2014 Malahide for the RPSI Steamer 'Merlin' on the 12th NIR C3K at Connolly on 14th Mark 3 transfer to Limerick on 21st 8209 new Enterprise colours on the 22nd November 2014 The RPSI "Blue Train" with 233 and 217 to Midleton December 2014 8209 on the IWT Liner at North Wall on the 3rd Santa Specials on the 6th and 13th with 8209 working it's first passenger train since repainting on the 13th Belmond Mark 3's at North Wall on the 20th Look forward to more models and photos in the new year! Regards, Kieran

Good afternoon all, A few pictures from around Dublin today, mainly of North Wall and the Belmond Mark 3's. Photos also include the 0815 IWT from Ballina, a few from Inchicore and a few from Hesuton Regards, Kieran

Evening all, A few photos from around and about the Dublin area today, including: 8209 on the RPSI Stock at Connolly 461 at Pearse, Drumcondra and Leixlip Lousia Bridge 218 on the 0815 Ballina - North Wall IWT 215 on the 1900 Heuston - Cork And a few Class 29000's, 22000's and DART's Regards, Kieran

Afternoon all, An update to my December album on Flickr, including photos of: Heuston on Monday morning O'Connell Street on Monday evening Heuston today (with an unusual visitor) Regards, Kieran

Hi all, A few photos from the RPSI Santa Specials on Saturday, 6th December 2014. Places include: Dublin Connolly / Tara Street / Pearse Maynooth Leixlip Confey Clonsilla M3 Parkway Heuston Kieran

Thanks folks. I'm reserving judgement on the livery until it's finished, but the light ended up just about right

8209 worked the 0815 Ballina - North Wall IWT today (3/12/14). I headed down to North Wall and the docks for a few photos Regards, Kieran

Evening all, A group of photos taken recently, including a peek at Inchicore. Taking advantage of the weakening sunlight to produce some nice colours https://www.flickr.com/photos/hurricanemk1c/15881162626/in/set-72157649123185531 Regards, Kieran

As far as I know (and it's a technicality) CIÉ never had any Mark 2A's - only Iarnród Éireann did. Prehaps that might help your search. Mark 2 details that were bought from BR: Open Second Mark 2/2A (64S, 2 Lav, 31 ton 17 cwt) 4101 (5428) - AD2A 4102 (5411) - AD2A 4108 (5252) - AD2Z (48-seater originally) 4110 (5306) - AD2A Open Second Mark 2C (54S, 2 Lav, 32 ton 16 cwt). All AD2C 4103 (6406) 4104 (6405) 4105 (6401) 4106 (6413) 4107 (6403) Open Second Mark 2A (54S, 2 Lav, 32 ton 16 cwt) 4113 (19469) - AA2A (Built as Corridor First, then Corridor Second) 4114 (13471) - AA1A (Built as Corridor First) Open Second Mark 2B (42S, 2 Lav, 33 ton) 4109 (19512) - AA2B (Built as Corridor Second) Open Second Mark 2C (52S, 2 Lav, 33 ton 9 cwt). Built as Corridor Seconds (AA2C) 4111 (19521) 4112 (19553) Buffet Open Second Mark 2B (36S, 1 Lav, 35 ton 10 cwt). Built as Corridor Seconds (AA2B) 4401 (19489) 4402 (19497). All purchased in 1990 from Vic Berry Scrapyard, Leicestershire. As far as I know, they were on 'secondary' services to places like Galway, Westport and Waterford. Believe they were withdrawn between 2003-2005. 4111 damaged by fire and scrapped 1992 Regards, Kieran

Evening all, Some photos from Heuston this morning and a quick stop at Kildare for the DFDS liner Complete with a confused 22000! Regards, Kieran

231 borught an Enterprise set their for refurbishment

For Gat Ex stock it was a Mark 2 brake that was converted to gen van - It was a Mark 2B Brake First Corridor with BR

OK - it was 22036!

Not perfect - different toilet configuration and seats are different, but not that much different. Bachmann are producing Mark 2F's which are identical (bodyshell wise) to the Gatwick stock.

Dapol had announced a Class 59 years ago but never carried on - note that Dave Jones of DJ Models is the same Dave Jones that ran Dapol, so presumably knew that the 59 wasn't happening

Some of the Dapol stuff was announced in 2007-2008 and still isn't released (Class 50, although now in the CAD stage)

It really does depend. As an N guage modeller, I doubt that many, if any, RTR stuff will come out. It's well known even in the much larger UK market that 1 N gauge model sells for every 3-4 OO gauge item. If a good project came along and interested me and if I know the quality could be made, then I might fund it. A 3 ICR would be a good idea - vital for the scene from late 2007 on. If you modelled that period, you could have Baby GM's, 071's, 201's. Mark 2-4 and ICR's, along with a few freight flows. A big dream of mine is modelling Portarlington pre re-building (off topic now!). As all ICR's have two common vehicles (A3 and B cars), only three bodyshells are needed. A cool feature would be working a Voith Turbo Teloscopic Schaku Coupler. That personally would be more likely from a Crowdfunded model that mainstream model. It's always a risk to fund (even though you do get the money back if not successful). One or two failures of projects you've invested in and that's it, you are unlikely to invest again. I will wait with interest, watching other crowd funded models and see how they get on before considering whether an Irish version would be good

Hi all, Some photos from Wednesday and Thursday that I've just got around the uploading https://www.flickr.com/photos/hurricanemk1c/with/15848755521/ Regards, Kieran

First off, thanks for the share of the photo! This is not finished as has been previously stated. There should be some coloured swirls on the side. However, the mock-up photo I saw was at Engineer's Ireland in September on a presentation by Mal McGreevy so it's not up on the internet yet. It now has numbers (8209 at long last) and has been moving around Inchicore. Wednesday it was at the Heuston end of the main running shed and on Thursday / today it's been at the Cork end. This is probably the penultimate new livery for the Enterprise 201's - unless the planned electrification of the Belfast line by 2040 doesn't go ahead. (BTW the preference is for loco+coaches for Enterprise work in the future) Just as an aside 22036/37/38 will cover the De Dietrich off for refurbishment. They'll be on for a maximum of 4 weeks at a time (interval between B exams at Laois Traincare Depot). However 22038 was seen at Heuston last night so it might be rotated through on a weekly basis Regards, Kieran