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Shunting at Dugort Harbour in 1955… . ….and the midday mixed leaving on two days ten years later in 1965….

Just for info, there's a B&B near me on BACK ROAD, Malahide. can't recall name, but if you google B&Bs in Malahide, you'll get it. 20-odd minutes' DART from Connolly. Dunno if they're full or not. The reason the prices are so high that weekend is that there are several major GAA games on in Croker, plus a few other events on in the city centre. Plus, the tourists seem to be coming back to Dublin in droves.

The GNR had a few also, some with quite a long wheelbase. CIE had an old long-wheelbase crew van of some sort on lifting trains in the late 1950s, which was of GSWR origin. While elusive photograph-wise, such images as I have seen of it suggest that it might originally have been built as a drovers van, although other sources suggest it was purpose-built as a crew van. If I can find a suitable pic I will post. Brake vans, like cattle wagons, are a much-ignored subject, worthy of a book of their own. (Any takers?)

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I can rent camping spaces in North Dublin for a mere €295 plus customs, vat, brexit and postal charges....

Now, that would be an ecumenical matter. OK, the kettle one.....!

Irish companies never officially allocated locos to sheds - but they did allocate TYPES of locos to lines or routes, according to traffic and driver knowledge. Adelaide would have had everything. Suburban tank locos, goods and passenger engines large & small, dock shunters, etc....

For the times that are in it. B129 & 800 at Inchicore, 1962. From the P Dillon collection, given to me a couple of years ago.

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On the subject of “back in the day”; jhbSenior had a notoriously weak stomach for motion sickness. He dreaded the Holyhead ferry (yet his grandfather had captained it). You only had to show him a picture of a ship and he’d be seasick. The Schull & Skibbereen Railway had the same effect. He travelled on it in the early 1930s and ended up being sick over the end balcony of a four-wheeled coach, as it roughly rocked and rolled along at a mind-blowing speed of Warp 12 miles per hour…. (Maybe that’s why he became a PW engineer….)

Thanks, Tony. There’s been nothing much else happening in recent times as I’ve been busy elsewhere but I’m hoping for further progress soon.

Is it DCC fitted? Sound or not?

Ah, if it’s the 800 class you must buy seven, plus three of their 500 class and twelve of their NCC “Jeeps”. I thought that was a new nameplate. I was looking forward to seeing it on the wall of a Chicago bar in six months’ time……

Yes - this was commonplace in makers’ photographs, to provide contrast. While it was seen amongst a number of British liveries, it was very rare in Ireland for any type of wagon to have black ironwork unless the wagon was black itself, as many early GSWR, DSER & Donegal Railway ones were. The rule on Irish railways was almost always that ironwork was body colour. There were very few exceptions. Same with makers photos of locos with white connecting rods, or white rims on carriage wheels - they didn’t run like that. With no colour photography, black, white and numerous shades of grey were necessary on official works photos to show detail. Once photographed, the item concerned would be painted in its “proper” livery before delivery to its new owner.

The best measure is for each attendee to purchase three antigen tests and four IRM locos…..

Another absolute gem from 1960 Lagan Valley!

No. 77!

And my lot were round the corner in Wellington Road…..

By CIE days you’re looking at ex-MGWR 0.6.0s, 2.4.0s, AEC railcars and C class diesels. Had it survived into the 1960s/70s, it’s a diet of 141s.

Excellent info. Very true indeed.

As a rare one-off, actually not on this occasion!

That happened to me once on an summer excursion and I missed my footing climbing down and fell onto the ballast!

I’ve a couple of photos of Castlegregory somewhere - will delve over next few days. Senior went there in 1939, two weeks before it closed. It is an excellent model for a mini-terminus.

Only seeing this now. I’m in for coaches, certainly.

2nd last pic is close to original condition.