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5 minutes ago, Broithe said:

It may be more of a heater than a light.

https://picclick.de/Vintage-Red-Nestill-Paraffin-Heizung-in-Lampe-umgewandelt-186114764036.html

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

On 18/3/2024 at 9:56 AM, IrishTrainScenes said:

I am planning a trip to Cork over the summer,  is it possible to get from Belfast - Connolly - Heuston - Cork?

I know the Enterprise is Belfast - Connolly and LUAS to Heuston but  how much is first class for those two trips (Belfast - Connolly & Heuston - Cork)?

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.

On 1/3/2024 at 1:21 AM, WRENNEIRE said:

Any idea if this is Railway related?

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….?

8 hours ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

 

They must have been fascinating to see

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.

On 4/2/2024 at 2:54 PM, Paul 34F said:

 

JHB, if you have any details, I would greatly appreciate them.  I have also received information from Seagoebox, with some more promised.  

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!

1 hour ago, Wexford70 said:

Happened to me also.

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

Gotta be a Jeep

1 hour ago, Noel said:

Am I the only one who has never been to IKEA? Nor have I any desire to. 

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…….

2 hours ago, Horsetan said:

The 8210/8310 was the smallest mobile I'd ever seen. I bet a fair few of those were smuggled into prisons back then.

I thought 8210 and 8310 were Darts……

36 minutes ago, spudfan said:

Am I the only one here who does not own or who has never owned a mobile phone? 

 

As the Carlsberg man might say, "probably"!

1 hour ago, Patrick Davey said:

JB I was thinking maybe a bit later, the branch would still be in GNRB hands until 1958 I think?  A30 would probably be devoid of her silver livery by then though.

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.

41 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

The reference to the dance hall is a nice bit of colour and I can just see the evening workings from Drogheda… although of course Ireland’s premier and legendary ‘Ballroom of Romance’ was located on Ireland’s premier and legendary railway, within walking distance of Glenfarne station on the SLNC…..the movie it inspired in 1982 is still wonderful…. 

 

Dang. Watched it all and not a Railcar "B" in sight.............

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

2 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

A30 arrives at and departs from Clogherhead with a local service to Drogheda, in early CIE days.

Priceless stuff!

Tis 1955 again….

10 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I pre ordered a pack of 3 which I intend to mix in with GSWR flats, and/or other types of flats weather they be converted or printed 

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!

19 minutes ago, Mayner said:

These days freight terminals are usually set up in newly established industrial areas on the outskirts cities, close to major road/motorway junctions.

Locally the recently established Ruakura Inland Port set up as a joint venture between a Port Company and a property company has sidings set up to handle 40  wagon container trains. https://www.ruakura.co.nz/explore-the-superhub/ruakura-inland-port/

 

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...........

3 hours ago, K801 said:

Not sure whats to the left, the old station?  What will happen to this area, a new freight yard?

Sadly, I doubt it very much...... Which raises an issue; with Adelaide turned over to servicing 4k trams, where in the city COULD a goods terminal be built? Fortwilliam area?

2 hours ago, Wexford70 said:

So only one has survived?

I think both have - at Dromod - but one is more or less a set of parts.

My bribery of the judges worked..............!

(Seriously - very well done, and very richly deserved!)

Methinks an oul shpin up to GVS quite soon might be in order; few pints in the Crown, and home.

55 minutes ago, Patrick Davey said:

Still my favourite CIE livery:

Fantastic! This is obviously a different day in April 1971; A3 was re-engined in March of that year, and A15 in May, so it must be April! Looking at the weekly circulars, that's the day when the two "A"s arrived, A3R with a mystery train from Wexford, and A15 with an Easter Monday special from Connolly..... so that pins it down to 12th April 1971.   (jhb nerd alert)

B125 failed on the Dundalk goods on the previous Thursday and was shunted in there, remaining over easter, and being towed to Inchicore on the Tuesday.........

One special in from Westland Row, another from Drogheda, and one from Dundalk?