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  1. Doing a bit in Queens at the minute. Over coffee today all I heard was complaints about Grand Circus
  2. One day last week counted 25 Translink staffing rail station plus 29 on duty in bus station Gents is still.out of order in bus station. Progress!
  3. Latest issue of Sream Days has a nice article with good photos of CIE steam in 1959.
  4. With good use of some platforms Lusburn to Bangor serviced could be easily introduced. Queens students and City Hospital users not amused either
  5. Larne even had 3 stations with two Town stations both long demolished
  6. Surely Londonderry and Boston Railway?
  7. Dublin Belfast closed for those 3 days 2!
  8. 14.05 Enterprise to Dublin is a 6 car CAF after 206 failed at Grand Central today. Platforms 5 and 6 will.be the Dublin platforms
  9. Good view of Buncrana signal cabin. Just look at the rake of vans on a railway with months left before it closed.
  10. Part of the station wall cladding fell.onto the track and platforms a few weeks ago over a weekend!
  11. Or what the final.bill will be? At present piling work going on the station approach!
  12. No timetables yet for Translink so use Irish Rail website instead which shows a 2 hourly Enterprise from Grand Circus from October 13th. The hourly Enterprise in theory!starts from October 29th
  13. Like 109 the 0-6-2ST?
  14. The shed seen at Letterkenny now a car park at the shopping centre in Letterkenny!
  15. On behalf of the Donegal Railway Heritage Museum I would be morec than interested in that article and replying to your questions?
  16. No hourly Enterprise from October 7th. Translink cannot provide enough buses whilst Grand Central cannot accept trains. The Saga continues
  17. Would teach Translink management a lesson or 2!
  18. No bus this morning from Belfast to Newry to connect with the first Enterprise to Dublin! Correction the 7.56 from Newry started from Dumdalk today
  19. Translink cannot give a date yet when they met Irish Rail.yesterday about hourly Enterprise from October 7th. Usually elf and safety unspecified were blamed! Asked for a date Translink.were vague
  20. Looks more like a summer special from Rossknowlaghl to Strabane about to run round
  21. 231 was the loco with a DD set not cleaned and covered in graffiti!
  22. Love the top photo will be in the station building in the Museum for 2 days this week!
  23. DD set visited GC for the first time yesterday morning. The platform clearances in platforms 5 to 8 were assessed as being too tight for passenger use! The Saga continues
  24. 201 and DDs clearance tests at GC this morning. Problems identified with platforms 5 to 8. The Saga continues
  25. Great stuff digging out more photos of the Ballymena and Larne for another project. Showed some of these photos to galteemore senior recently
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