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 September 29 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 September 29 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 

[Irishswissernie]

Ex Midland & Great Western Railway at Broadstone today. 3 somewhat poor negatives and one copyright print where the negative has been destroyed.

CIE 1959- CA Dublin Broadstone y001.

CIE 1959- CA Dublin Broadstone y015.

CIE 1959- CA Dublin Broadstone y002.

CIE 1958-07-06 Broadstone shed B2a 401 coprint25j+067b

 

 

[Irishswissernie]

I have uploaded to Flickr, 10 Richard Casserley photos taken on 4 June 1964. Here are 3, there are over 50 Guinness images in this Album. The first image taken at an earlier date by A Ford, if you click on it is a link to the Album.

1964-06-04 Guinness Conv ags +No 2  RMC 20893 26A009.

1964-06-04 Guinness Conv ags +No 2  RMC20892 26A008.

1964-06-04 Guinness 2 RMC 20887 scan 26A002.

 

Edited October 12 by Irishswissernie

[Irishswissernie]

CIE 1955-04-21 Claremorris 613 RMC83497a Cas25184.

CIE 1955-04-20 Roscommon 542 RMC83477 Cas25178.

CIE 1955-04-19 Balymoe  RMC26111  RMC 83478.

 

 

[Galteemore]

On 12/10/2025 at 8:02 AM, Irishswissernie said:

I have uploaded to Flickr, 10 Richard Casserley photos taken on 4 June 1964. Here are 3, there are over 50 Guinness images in this Album. The first image taken at an earlier date by A Ford, if you click on it is a link to the Album.

1964-06-04 Guinness Conv ags +No 2  RMC 20893 26A009.

1964-06-04 Guinness Conv ags +No 2  RMC20892 26A008.

1964-06-04 Guinness 2 RMC 20887 scan 26A002.

 

Great shots. Must be almost at the end of the Guinness broad gauge operations, certainly steam-wise. Presumably some of this traffic was northern bound given the UT wagon- very different to the Guinness trains I remember ! 

 

[Mayner]

I don't remember seeing Guiness steam locos but vaguely remember seeing the riverside Wharf on Victoria Quay before it was removed and seeing the Hudswell Clarke diesel parked at the brewry entrance every time we passed along St Johns Rd would have been 7-8 when the tramway closed.