Randall Stevens

I must mention too, that I've learnt a great deal from more experienced enthusiasts, some who have sadly since passed on, along with their invaluable knowledge,

I regret I never met any of these people, maybe my Dad did, I take it Ciaran Cooney/Eiretrains is your website which has a lot of good information and well reseached, I resently joined a couple of facebook pages but very few with good knowledge, idiots posting nonsense, I may call on you again for some advice, thank you.

The Curragh cabin was dispensed with in December 1975, with access to the branch from then on controlled by ground-frame, released using an Annett's Key obtained from the Newbridge stationmaster. Interestingly the Railfans News indicate the branch did have a loop between racecourse platforms and the main line connection, but it was removed, along with a small signal cabin, as long ago as 1960.

 

The Mk2 Supertrain set in 1973 mentioned in the IRRS Journal which ran onto the branch was reported as operating for visitors of the 'European

Your assistance has been invaluable, it's a hugh task matching details to slides, are you from the Kildare area, thank you for taking the time and sharing your knowledge.

The knowledge you all have of the Curragh line is amazing. I'd like to read more about it.

 

I couldn't agree more, this thread has been of great assistance and solving a few puzzles for me re Curragh siding, the ''top and tail'' operation explains a lot on slides I'm currently working on, cie supertrain did work into the siding, thanks to all the contributors, particularly to Eiretrains, you seem to be quite well informed.

You never assume anything when it comes to livery details, that's why so many books have so many mistakes, people assume without doing reseach, I made a resent discovery when trawling through my Dad's collection, B127 with a red buffer beam on a Belfast train taken in 1965, the collection is being digital enhanced costing me a lot of money and sweat, but will be worth it in the end, people can split hair on what color a strip is, but getting it right or don't bother at all.

Thanks. I don't see what's landmark here in the context of web forums to be honest. Sharing links to material on a forum is common practice. I think the ruling here is sharing links to content that is infringing copyright in the first place. Can't recall that being common occurrence on here, compared to say people blatantly ripping off someone else's photo and sticking it up without asking permission and/or crediting them for it. Still we can watch stuff on YouTube etc and sleep soundly at night.

Very well said, nothing landmark here at all, nothing we don't know already, the problem arises when people try to profit from others very hard work, when somebody builds up a collection over 40 50 years then somebody else comes along and profits from that without acknowledging the hard work somebody spent years building up, the internet forums is full of ambitious posters anxious to make a name for themselves on the back of other people's work, it's plain to see, you've only to study the forums, which I have done.

Welcome to the forum, Randall. If you can manage to digitize any of your dad's photos, these would be a great resource for modelers of late steam/early diesel which is an era somewhat less recorded prior to the explosion of AV recording devices.

Thank you for the welcome DiveController, it's being worked on at the moment.

QUOTE=jhb171achill;86156] It's good to share. All too often, stuff gets squirrelled away by someone, or worse, thrown out. I doubt there's a single photographer in the world that wants that. History is made of such stuff, and I do think it's incumbent of any of us who remember certain things to pass them on to anyone who's interested.

I'm late coming to this thread as I've been abroad with work, on your views Jbh171achill about ''sharing'' collections, the words ''squirrelled'' is most unfortunate, I don't know of anybody anywhere who ''squirrell'' away collections with bad or selfish intentions, I can't speak for anybody else, only myself, but I'm not ''squirrelling'' away my Dad's collection of 30,000 photographs, I intend to share them in the right way in the future in book form so that my Dad's 50 years of work is properly acknowledged and credited, there are good valid reasons for not sharing photos on today's internet, where work is not credited and gets taken by 3rd parties to appear on twitter, snapchat and facebook, I don't care what Roger Joanes or anybody else does, that's their business and good luck to them, but my Dad's pictures won't be an internet sensation.

My uncle (Dad's brother) was a modeller, my Dad was a photographer, they never got on,I wonder why, now both dead, my brother got all the model trains, I got all the pictures, but I'II do the right thing and do my Dad proud, I'm certainly not ''squirrelling'' them away.

legends down these parts!! Barry and the gentleman who hitched a lift on B145 on the last day on the Burma Rd!!

Unknown legends, not the over exposed variety that everybody knows, my late Dad was a unknown legend that stalked the railways for over 50 years, north south east and west, mostly monochrome negatives and kodachrome slides, didn't live to see digital stuff, but his pictures will last longer.