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Yes thanks guys working on Strabane and your details tally with other photos from that time. We have some good photos of CDR buses and lorries still using the CDR side if the station until the UTA closure of the Derry Road. That date makes sense as it was the last weekend of the Derry Road before complete closure. Most of the track in CDR side of station gone by end of 1961 apart from stock purchased by Dr Cox.
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The Burtonport Extension Railway! Epic
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Thanks seeing as goods services officially ended about January 5th 1965 could be late 1964 onwards?
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Yes JHB on a line they claimed had little freight traffic! Do we have a date for that photo?
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As you well know Chris I have been searching for any photos of that goods yard as well. The GNR I goods yard beside Railway Street would appear to have been the site of the first station opened in 1847 by the L&E. Trying to access the Cooper photo collection at PRONI is not helped by their outdated record keeping and the lack of digitalised photo archive.
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Have been trying since July to do some research. PRONI has reopened about 2weeks ago but what limited slots there are seem to be booked up into October and beyond. Trying to look at the Cooper photo archive of over 3000 photos and only 38 are available online with vague captions!
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mgwr preserved railway Connemara Railway project.
airfixfan replied to ttc0169's topic in What's happening on the network?
Anything planned for the public at this new railway Centre next month? -
Once Drumboe is back in Donegal Town it will boost local support to reopen part of the former railway. When something happens on that front it aids chances of completing the final stage of restoration plans for Drumboe.
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Ernies Massive Irish 1930's to 2005 Photo Archive
airfixfan replied to Glenderg's topic in Photos & Videos of the Prototype
Great stuff and new Burtonport photos are most welcome. The IRRS Photo archive is brilliant -
Sounds familiar aware from another project to reopen where 1 or 2 landowners have blocked a serious railway project because of a NIMBY attitude. Another example was where the landowner demanded an extortionate amount for a small but vital strip of land. Offers to take them and key Council officials to Wales to see the potential were also instantly rejected.
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Correct 19 was lying stored in Maysfield Yard by early 1963.and its duties had effectively been replaced by the arrival of 27. Loco 18 had went by June 1956 and was the only loco built by Bagnall to operate in Ireland on the Broad Gauge. 18 was LMS 7456 and 19 LMS 7553 built by Hunslet.
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1st generation Donegal diesels at Malahide
airfixfan replied to jhb171achill's topic in Irish Models
My mistake meant 1932 not 1942 and did not enter service until Jan 1933 After closure of the CDR Phoenix was used to lift the line from Lifford only to Strabane. Only believed that story when I acquired a photo of that recently -
There was a slip coach operation from 1908 that appeared to have ended and never resumed after WW1. The morning train at 07.55 connecting with the ferry from Larne Harbour would slip a mail van at Larne Town NG to give the Ballymena train a charge at Inver bank!
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Nice film of UTA steam to illustrate slip coaches on the Dublin -Cork line even including a Jeep hauling a failed MPD set! No mention of the only NG slip coach on the Ballymena and Larne.
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1st generation Donegal diesels at Malahide
airfixfan replied to jhb171achill's topic in Irish Models
Railcar 7 was the first purpose built diesel Railcar in the British Isles. Phoenix converted to a diesel after purchase by the CDR after the CVR closed in 1942. CVR railcar was built in 1932 and bought by CDR in 1942 and became CDR Railcar 10 and is preserved at Cultra wirh Phoenix. -
Correction David it is a photo of an industrial called Donegal used to build the Strabane and Letterkenny Railway from 1906 and when opened in 1909 it was the last new NG line in Ireland.
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1st generation Donegal diesels at Malahide
airfixfan replied to jhb171achill's topic in Irish Models
Correct Railcar 7 of the CDR was the first purpose built passenger diesel Railcar in the British Isles. Without their pioneering development in the use of railcars the CDR would not have lasted as long as it did until 1960. -
You were unlucky when you visited in 2013 as at present during the Summer months we are open to visitors 7 days a week.
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Freelance Mixed Gauge - Handbuilt Trackwork
airfixfan replied to RichL's topic in Irish Model Layouts
Thanks may come back unto you by PM later? -
Freelance Mixed Gauge - Handbuilt Trackwork
airfixfan replied to RichL's topic in Irish Model Layouts
Andy whatever happened to your Strabane layout I seen about a decade ago? -
Just when you mentioned Finn Velley thought you were dealing with the FVR line from Strabane to Stranorlar Finntown Railway were operational on some dates last year but wiill remain closed in 2020.
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Very interesting
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Will become a collectors item!
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Got that magazine Wheels of Industry for 7.99 including p&p. Robbed by WHS?
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We are looking at a number of options at the Donegal Railway Heritage Centre. Would be great if as you say the track was still there in the Finn Valley but it was all lifted in 1960. Once work starts on Drumboe next month varies options will be examined in more depth. Funds permitting of course!
