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An 800 in Limerick, 141s and laminates on the Derry Road, MGWR and GNR six-wheel carriages on the BCDR main line, a Mk 4 in Killarney……the mysterious Clogher Valley van on the Glenties branch, a GNR wooden clerestory bogie on the Loughrea branch still in GNR livery, and another the same in West Cork…..”A” class locos in Monaghan, a GSWR 4.4.0 in Achill….. the list of oddball exceptions almost equals a bedroom layout with a Hornby Jinty hauling IRM fertiliser bogies, and a Murphy 141 hauling the Orient Express, with a Union Pacific goods caboose on the end…..

Love the prototypical weathering!

Indeed! She was under repair there - I’m guessing he took that picture in the mid or late 30s.

I love all those GNR carriages, Leslie. Are they SSM?

Mid 1930s, DSER-side GSR Dublin suburban traffic with a "Bandon Tank". I may have posted this before - leading coach is DSER third, not sure what the others are. Second one could be GSWR or DSER - can't get a decent look at it. You'll notice another train disappearing into the distance. Second pic is a view of the 1st class section in an AEC railcar on the Harcourt Street line. Third one is an engine in a state of indecency........ (All H C A Beaumont)

Nothing more on that line, Ken, and indeed not all that many off the DSER. As he travelled back and forth to school on the Harcourt Street Line, hung about H St. at weekends trainspotting with his friend, and saw things Inchicore-based as more "exotic" - and was not at all a prolific photographer - he saw the DSER as more "routine" and took very few pics anywhere on it! I will have a look now and see what I have, though.

Great news - that's a fourth author working away that I'm aware of. Hopefully many more!

W O W ! ! ! Amazing work!

Shillelagh, mid 1930s. (H C A Beaumont)

Well, it's Hornby that I blame for the obsession with having wagons of all eras, in all liveries, with a black chassis, or ironwork picked out in black! Sure they also did model steam locos in yellow..........! Not sure - they would swop them about. Not sure - they would swop them about.

I'm aware of three authors at least who are actively working right now on Irish railway titles, and another who is considering a particular project!

. And for comparison, at Dundalk in the 1970s: What IS it about preserved steam engines on plinths, ALL around the WORLD, that have people running to paint connecting rods WHITE!!!! Yes, and I was there myself, though I generally took print film, not slides. I didn't get one decent shot, though I was also preoccupied trying to supervise Junior who was only about 7............. No sooner would you reach for your camera than the rain came on again. Drove to Adelaide and back with headlights on, it was that dark! Note the catcher on the cabside; NCC land, some time between 1947 and early 50s.

The day that all the exhibits from Belfast Transport Museum were moved to Cultra was an exceptionally dark, dull day with frequent rain showers. Photographic conditions were truly awful. Senior managed to get one decent shot of the GNR tank loco - a handsome little beast if ever there was one. It shows the GNR loco livery up perfectly, and far better than is possible now.

Ernie - PM sent.

Superb info, Ernie - I'll ping you privately about some of his other stuff. There's a lot of Swiss / Austrian in the 1930s too. Now, what does anyone make of this. Also from a different part of the "Catacombs", amongst boxes and boxes of old traffic circulars, this one from 1925 has some interesting annotations - the circular originated in the Inchicore Drawing Office, not any area where timetables would be created or amended! I don't recognise the writing; it is not that of jhbSeniorx2.

I might add, he was watching her with his dad - who reckoned she was doing over 80 mph at that spot, which I believe was somewhere near Hazelhatch. 100% rural then.

That makes sense. He was in Scotland a couple of times. He went off chasing Black 5s, as he remembered them being built when he worked 2 years in England. Among names I recall him mentioning as having been to, were Alloa, Brechin, Oban, Mallaig & Kyle.

Senior captured this in 1940. Not a great photo in all reality, but it has picked up well what the photographer described: "....she was absolutely FLYING along..." One of the four 3rd class Pullmans behind the loco, in GSR brown and cream (as opposed to actual (British) "Pullman" brown and cream livery, in which guise they did not run here).

One more for tonight. Grey bubbles and another railcar set with three liveries. The goods train is near Meigh and the railcar set (ex-GNR) is at (I think) Macmine Junction. Tin van in tow for parcel traffic, as was often the case then. Dates, again, are not precise; I think the goods is c.1967 and the railcar is c.1962. (Both H C A Beaumont)

. With recent talk about containers, this may be of interest.

A few more at complete random from jhbSenior's stuff. First, a few in Brexitstan. He has quite a lot of BR material as a result of his annual attendance at the Annual General Meeting of the Permanent Way Institution, of which he was a member from 1939 until he passed away in 2014, by which time he was by far the oldest Irish member. Ennnnyway; here we go. I have absolutely no idea where any of these are, sorry! But they are all early to mid 1960s, obviously. I think the latest couple are 1967. . ........and back to familiar lands where things run on a proper gauge. Three liveries in this one.

One for the road. Leaving Westport, July or August 1976. (H C A Beaumont)

. Late 1980s, Lansdowne Road, bound for Shelton Abbey, I presume? (H C A Beaumont)

. This one is undated, taken by Senior. I think it is winter 80/81 but I'm not sure. . This, of course, is what would have interested Senior a great deal more! (Plus me, if truth be told....). His pic, Adelaide 1962. . But back to the diseasels. Senior wasn't down this way too often, so it should be easier to date this, probably late 80s he had a holiday in this neck'o'the woods..

Weathering of an "A"; who dares replicate this? Lisburn, c.1990; photo by jhbSenior. . Roughly a decade earlier, 001 heads north through Lisburn - photo again H C A Beaumont. . In 1990 and thereabouts, the Rosslare line was one of the few regular turns for an "A" on passenger trains. Photo - self.