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

[airfixfan]

8 minutes ago, 16miller said:

At the Tooban Jct picture, is that a right hand semaphore? 

Signals at Tooban Junction were unique

[Irishswissernie]

Looks like it, this is a better view.

 

[16miller]

I ask as on my garden railway I erroneously put a signal arm facing to the right. I was told that was incorrect, but it pleases me that I've found an example, and in Donegal as well! 

[airfixfan]

Must check my own collection of Tooban Junction

[Irishswissernie]

We returned from last weekends Ffestiniog Gala like drowned rats with only one day of sunshine and broke our journey at Ribblehead where the foul weather continued. Two stills from the video there and I will return to the good (?) old days with the next post.

2026-10-05 Blea Moor RHTT  66801 + 816. - Not sure that the rails needed the washing treatment !.

2026-10-05 Ribblehead 66695 Horton - Brin'Heath.

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Irishswissernie

[Irishswissernie]

CBSC 1955-04-13 Bantry Town, RMC83237 Cas25089.

CBSC 1955-04-13 Bantry Town RMC83234 Cas25088.

CIE 1955-04-12  Blarney.  RMC26031 RMC 83199.

GNRI 1955-04-18 Clones 197 RMC83389 Cas25118.

SLNC 1950-05-18 Enniskillen Railcar A in yard HCC72980 Cas25066.

GSR 1934-07-17 Westport. 57 HCC11203 Cas25168.

 

[airfixfan]

Great photo of Enniskillen

[Ironroad]

8 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

CBSC 1955-04-13 Bantry Town, RMC83237 Cas25089.

CBSC 1955-04-13 Bantry Town RMC83234 Cas25088.

CIE 1955-04-12  Blarney.  RMC26031 RMC 83199.

GNRI 1955-04-18 Clones 197 RMC83389 Cas25118.

SLNC 1950-05-18 Enniskillen Railcar A in yard HCC72980 Cas25066.

GSR 1934-07-17 Westport. 57 HCC11203 Cas25168.

 

Interesting to note that the signage at Bantry and Blarney wasn't bi-lingual. How common was this?

[Galteemore]

Fab view of railbus A! 

[cheesy_peas]

3 hours ago, Ironroad said:

Interesting to note that the signage at Bantry and Blarney wasn't bi-lingual. How common was this?

Plenty places never got bilingual nameboards and kept their old English only boards up to closure. Off the top of my head Loo Bridge, Abbeyfeale, Lixnaw, Newmarket, Rathduff, Bruree and Tubber (still in place last time I passed!) never received any.

Bantry had one or two bilinguals seen in other photos, but were affixed to the signal cabin.

[leslie10646]

Interesting view of the "Old U" at Clones, thanks.

[Westcorkrailway]

6 hours ago, Ironroad said:

Interesting to note that the signage at Bantry and Blarney wasn't bi-lingual. How common was this?

Bantry did have a bilingual sign (see first pic). It seems that they were slow to just discard of the old signs in places, which makes sense. 
 

it was quite common in west cork to see the two side by side