CIE 1950s train

[GSR 800]

Work done tonight, sides soldered on, doorways soldered in also.

And now a question. I was reading through one of the Irish railway rover books, which had a photo of a Night Up Galway mail train at Mullingar.

The book mentioned that it was waiting for the Up Sligo mail, which in turn would then wait for the Down Mail before returning to Sligo. Am I right then in thinking that the Sligo Mail was pretty much a Shuttle from Mullingar to Sligo, first going up to Mullingar, meeting the Up Galway there and having its Mail transferred to that train, then waiting for the Down Galway Mail, having mail transferred to it, then heading back to Sligo.

OR was it the case that the trains were simply split and joined as per other trains at Mullingar? There's a photo of a Cattle Engine shunting a TPO tin van at Mullingar somewhere..

Edited 46 minutes ago by GSR 800

[Mol_PMB]

I probably have a suitable WTT to answer your question, but I’m now away from home for a couple of days. Someone else might get there first. 
 

The van is looking excellent. 

[GSR 800]

5 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

I probably have a suitable WTT to answer your question, but I’m now away from home for a couple of days. Someone else might get there first. 
 

The van is looking excellent. 

Many thanks Mol

[jhb171achill]

30 minutes ago, GSR 800 said:

Work done tonight, sides soldered on, doorways soldered in also.

And now a question. I was reading through one of the Irish railway rover books, which had a photo of a Night Up Galway mail train at Mullingar.

The book mentioned that it was waiting for the Up Sligo mail, which in turn would then wait for the Down Mail before returning to Sligo. Am I right then in thinking that the Sligo Mail was pretty much a Shuttle from Mullingar to Sligo, first going up to Mullingar, meeting the Up Galway there and having its Mail transferred to that train, then waiting for the Down Galway Mail, having mail transferred to it, then heading back to Sligo.

OR was it the case that the trains were simply split and joined as per other trains at Mullingar? There's a photo of a Cattle Engine shunting a TPO tin van at Mullingar somewhere..

Yes, that seemed to be what it was the several times I travelled on it in the 1970s. You had to change at Mullingar and wait the guts of an hour.

[GSR 800]

7 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Yes, that seemed to be what it was the several times I travelled on it in the 1970s. You had to change at Mullingar and wait the guts of an hour.

Interesting, I wonder if this went back into the steam era. Many thanks, JB.

I also presume that, given the Jail Siding was almost always full of coaches in every photo I've seen of it (admittedly, later on it was RPSI stock), that trains that were split at Mullingar would've been strengthened with extra coaches.