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Classic scene!

Yes, Shannon Heritage are withdrawing from managing quite a number of tourist attractions...... not just around Dublin, but also in the west - Bunratty Castle & Folk Park, for example. Since Clare Co. Council are directly taking THAT over, the likelihood is that Fingal Co Council will take over Malahide Castle, the Model Railway Museum, Newbridge House in Donabate and so on - I would guess. Fingal CoCo are the owners. But as a local authority, it is better for them to sub-contract the day-to-day running of anything they can; but museums across the board rarely if ever cover their costs, let alone make a surplus, so as a general rule it isn't easy to find groups to operate such things. Voluntary society, anyone?

1969 to some time just after 1972, when it was repainted into "Supertrain" livery. Not long.

For our tram fans; from 35 Northumberland Road, Dublin, c. 1915: The fella going past in the cart is the "Deliveroo" man with the pizza for lunch.....

Hopefully! Good thinking.......

So as of now, anything I get in Brexitland goes to a relative in Wales, who will accidentally bring it over now and again……

I believe they were no stranger to the 70s on the Cork line.

To muddy the waters further, a friend of mine IN Britain now finds extra charges between the U.K. and AUSTRALIA!

PERFECT for a RTR! Travelled widely, versatile, and long lived. Once the "A" class are all sold............?

That is an EXCEPTIONAL bit of micro-engineering! Very impressive!

Ernie - do you have much other foreign stuff?

VERY well spotted! I'd say it's certainly Tullow. There's one more view: The lamp is visible in the IRRS shot. It is certainly Tullow.

Tullow’s top of the list, then. I found one more view which I’ll post later but the rest are old family photos. Must start soon on the “ordinary” negs which are 1935 onwards. Indeed they were! Inchicore’s heyday….

Found another......... The oul fella had a thing about 4.4.0s....... this one is Cobh, I believe in 1920 or so; this shows the grey livery started (1915) in GSWR times and was carried over into the GSR after 1925.

Is that thing still running? I'd love a trip on it...........

Damn yellow machines….. where’s the 071? “PROBABLY…….”

True

Roscrea is certainly very likely. They also went to Killaloe the odd time, but it doesn't look like there. Did Birdhill have a turntable?

Genny vans and TPOs, of course, were exempt; many of these got so filthy they could have been painted pink and lime green with tartan stripes for all anyone could tell! I remember seeing a tin van at Limerick one time, at the back of a two-coach train at the platform, which might have been for the Nenagh branch or possibly the Limerick - Ballina set. (The Rosslare in those days tended to have 3, 4 or 5 coaches). The patina of brake dust and general gunk all over it was such that ends, gangways, chassis, roof, sides and windows were all the one dull brown colour! The two laminates with it were spotless..........

Currently I am going through a huge collection of glass plate negatives of a family farm in Co Offaly over 100 years ago. This is not railway related at all, so no need to post them here - but ONE railway view popped up which is worthy of sharing - my grandfather took this some time about 1910-20. Can anyone assist with the location? The scan doesn't show it, but just barely visible on the left is a stone-based water tower. The stone base is whitewashed. The Dublin contingent of the family used to go by train to either Nenagh or Birr to stay on the farm during the summer holidays. So it is most likely to be somewhere in that general area, even Ballybrophy. But no concrete info.

Square ones, I think…..

True!!!!! D'oh! OK, not sure what it was then. Maybe he was planning to do a 60-class - something lurking in the back of my mind!

I'll take the chocolate. Someone else can have the silver "customer pipes".

I forgot to mention that due to ventilated sides, cattle trucks were occasionally used for transporting boxes of fish.

My grandfather (1879-1951) started building this (live steam) model in the 1910s. He never got it finished. Too busy working on boiler drawings in Inchicore Works! I think it was intended to be a 60-class 4.4.0. I believe that at some stage he was working on improvements to these locos. Sound familiar? How many of us never manage to get a model finished!