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Looks like one of the digitised IRRS archive films! Can we say that Tony Price or Joe St Leger took it in 1964 on an IRRS "outing" as they are (quaintly!) called.............

This one is small, but Bangor is far away............

That's the week in 1957 that they borrowed one from the UTA to assist with a busy time...........

They - plus the SSM kits shown above - are a perfect match for the J15!

Outstanding as always! Love the scruffy looking roof - the upholstery in those compartments will have a very musty smell (I remember this in old UTA steam-era coaches!)

That really is absolutely top class! I spent all of yesterday with friend Barry Carse going through severl thousand pictures with a view to organising our next book. many of these were taken in the 1970s and 80s - locomotives usually clean, but some absolutely filthy. By the 1990s, those facing retirement - first the "A"'s, then the 121 / 141 / 181s - were to be seen in an absolutely atrocious state of filth, and with badly faded paintwork and rust too. Plenty of prototypical scope for a "weatherer"!

Good spot. Yes, I'd say that's what it is.

No. Book the Belfast-Dublin one on www.translink.co.uk, and get the tram to Heuston. Book the Dublin-Cork bit separately at www.irishrail.ie.

Never seen anything like that….. not sure. Given the gauze on it, I suspect that if it is railway-related, it’s off some sort of comparatively recent machinery….?

The tram had some new boarding over it, but was very recognisable, but the BCDR coach was externally perfect! Original door handles and all, but internally stripped.

This is a superb post. I’ve no room in a small suburban garden for a thing like this but I wish I had. When I was a small person, I remember we visited a long-deceased elderly family friend in Co Wicklow who had an old Dublin tram on their farm. They had got it as a summerhouse but one of their farm workers was living in it. Another long gone acquaintance some fifty years ago had a pristine BCDR 6-wheel third class coach, still in faded UTA green. They used it as a workshop. It had tools, vices, small lathes and a whole range of work benches in it. Some time prior to the establishment of the DCDR, it was sadly bulldozed…. All long gone now, but I always wished I had an old railway vehicle and room to keep it.

I’ll have a poke about, Paul, and PM you. I’m away for a few days in Galway so will delve when I get home. Congrats on an absolutely invaluable project!

Seems par for the course from what I’ve heard…….

Gotta be a Jeep

By choice, I’d be with you. But I have twice been abducted by family members and made to go there. My therapy is gradually assisting in reversing my trauma, though seeing an 00 gauge model CIE steam loco with a white flying snail did, in fact, put me into reverse, with an extreme reaction of the Head Staggers, Screaming Fits, Night Vapours and Heeby Jeebies, like I got when “Ivan” got a zebra livery with cream balconies…….

I thought 8210 and 8310 were Darts……

As the Carlsberg man might say, "probably"!

I was thinking it's come over from Westland Row - yes, Clogherhead would definitely be GNR(B) until October 1958. The odd loco was still in silver into the 60s; albeit in exceptionally dirty looking condition. Some went straight from that to black, without a green phase. Dang. Watched it all and not a Railcar "B" in sight.............

Wow! Looking better each time! Great idea for a shed!

Priceless stuff! Tis 1955 again….

And this, of course, is prototypically correct. Until the modernisation programme of the late 1950s / early 60s, old pre-GSR wagons were to be seen mixed in with GSR ones and modern CIE equivalents. Thus, a train of flats could have CIE, GSR, GSWR or possibly MGWR or DSER examples in the mix. By 1965, very few of the older ones remained.

V E R Y nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well done IRM!

Indeed - thing is, though, with Belfast, one wonders where on earth they'd put it! Queens Quay, Maysfields, Grosvenor Road and York Road yards are all gone and built over. Heading out the bangor and Lisburn lines, there's just nowhere. So unless they could put some sort of facility in somewhere around Fortwilliam - then there's no chance of any freight terminal in Belfast (the second biggest city on this island, and a major port)....ever!

Good news indeed. Just spent a good while browsing their "bargains" section......

Ah! That was the night when Crossley A30 failed on the Dundalk goods, and had to be shunted down to Clogherhead to get out of the way of a late-running "Enterprise", an AEC railcar set with Lurgan and Porteedown people and communication cord issues...... and B125 appeared to tow it back to Amiens Street...........