ERNIE's Irish Railway Archive, photos from ca 1900 to the 2000's

[airfixfan]

Great photos the Letterkenny goods always heavily loaded until closure 

Edited Monday at 06:36 by airfixfan

[leslie10646]

They are a wonderful set of photos, Ernie. I particularly liked the human one of the queue at the booking office.

I agree with Jim that the goods photo is wonderful, BUT:

Were all those vans well-loaded, I think not. Probably a lot of air being moved around, for if i'm not mistaken, if there was a single bulky object for somewhere, it was loaded in a van and the van dropped off there. That was a big problem for the common carrier railway, lots of goods which did NOT pay its way.

Jim Edgar's brilliantly-researched talk to the IRRS London Area on the demise of Ulster's railways really brought this unhappy point to the fore. Without the legal requirement to carry the goods, we might have had a lot of lines still there usefully carrying passengers and keeping cars off the roads!

 

[Irishswissernie]

I'm off to the Ffestiniog Gala on Thursday for 5 days so, as Madame has gone off to Beamish with our youngest daughter and  year old twin grandchildren  today;  and I have done my chores, I will upload some more Casserley negs from 1955.

I am supposed to be plastering  in the kitchen however as it was ca 1978 the last time I got plastered I seem to have lost the knack!

Claremorris to Ballina.

CIE 1955-04-19 Claremorris 229 RMC26113 RMC 83480.

CIE 1955-04-20 Ballyvary 599. RMC26101 RMC83488a.

CIE 1955-04-20 Foxford RMC83487 Cas25180.

CIE 1955-04-19 Ballina.  RMC26106 RMC83484.

 

Edited Monday at 13:30 by Irishswissernie

[Irishswissernie]

After consultation with the Household Authority in view of the weather forecast for this weekend the trip to the Ffestiniog Gala was called off and cancelled at 2am on Tuesday.

An exciting alternative was then proposed that one should plaster up some holes in the living room wall where a radiator was removed a couple of years ago. However how about uploading a few more images!.

These are from the early / mid  1960's.

CIE 1967 CA Killarney  25j+092.

CIE 1967 CA Killarney 25j+088.

CIE 1967 ca Waterford 25j+077.

CIE 1967 ca Mallow 25j+096.

 

[Horsetan]

22 minutes ago, Irishswissernie said:

...An exciting alternative was then proposed that one should plaster up some holes in the living room wall where a radiator was removed a couple of years ago.

I can just feel the excitement