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Will get the bus to Dublin this weekend and for the last weekend in October to play safe.

Have lots of Strabane photos around 1960 with  GNR locos with some blue and cream coaches 

 Have a colour photo.from 1964 showing such a coach in that livery in Strabane station.

Any date for Foyle Road photo? If after 1963 could be 170,171 or 174?

Bottom photo looks like leaving Foyle Road station ?

Going from Belfast to Dublin.next Saturday. Based on all these failures will get the bus instead!

Have done a book review of this book for a magazine.  Gave it 5 stars in all areas.

Look the Mourne bridge photo on particular

There are a few CIE bus photos in colour as well

Correct based on photos taken when he toured Ireland in 1969. Many rare and unseen photos such as cover photo of Loughrea

Book Cover

My review copy arrived this morning. Hugh tells his story of a week by rail around Ireland by

CIE .in 1969. Nearly all colour photos of a railway scene that is long gone.  A most enjoyable book.

Stenlake have just published Rail Ramble around Ireland July 1969 by Hugh Dougherty. Many rare photos of mainly CIE and unpublished. 

Out for the Rugby but will look through my wagon photos tomorrow. We have some wagon drawings in the Donegal Railway Heritage Centre

Love the Letterkenny photos

Translink has no money without Stormont as well 2!

1 hour ago, Niles said:

Connolly-Drogheda is scheduled to be closed it would seem

https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/news/irishrail-engineering-works (handy link for checking ahead).

Only on the Sunday but the new Dublin Express bus service is very good and drops you at Tara Street!

23 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

That picture is of the Mourne River bridge , the one I have is the bridge over the Foyle north of Strabane near Garvary (Google Maps). I too thought it was on the Dublin- Belfast Main Line but the slide caption says otherwise and its also in the  Colourpoint book on the GNRI page 67.

Correct Ernie you beat me to and one half of that bridge still survives today but not the one in the photo 

Will.be on Ebay soon!

Was speaking to John only 4 weeks ago at an event in Donegal Railway Museum that he came to support

 RIP

3 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

Hope the weather's a bit better at Statfold Jim. Its  decidedly chilly up here on (nearly) on Hadrians Wall!

Lovely day and a great set up of you like Narrow Gauge. Well impressed and good to see Andy with Bruckless 2

Well I like both the CDR colour photos 2 from Tamworth!

Nice rare angle at Lifford

9 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

Mallow shed ca 1959-60.

Cork Glanmire Road shed J15 104 July 1955.

CDRJC Strabane station, Railcar 18 June 1957.

 

Another nice new Strabane photo

The Swilly buses book by Colourpoint is very comprehensive

Or April 1916?