Interesting Early Irish Railway photos

[Mol_PMB]

1 minute ago, Rob R said:

Another Album with a fair bit of railway, mostly during the "troubles".

J J Greene Album

Page 15 is for MOL. Other railway bits pages 56/7/8 61/2/3/5/6/7 73

Lovely! The original pier at Fenit before it was rebuilt in the 1950s. A fair sized ship alongside. Limerick Steamship Co were the most regular visitors here.

 

Pages 56-58 are good too - unusual view of the inside motion of an 0-6-0 goods engine, and a nice selection of goods wagons in a rather wrecked state.

Pages 65 & 67 have one of @leslie10646's brake vans in a slightly ticklish position.

Page 73 has a nice view of a 'Big Boy' van, 15065 I think. I must finish of my drawing of them, and then think about a model or two. I've been distracted by the layout construction.

[Rob R]

There was an earlier comment about the sheets covering the centre hatch on the "irish" style open vans having company lettering.

Both the GS&WR and the WL&WR did it. The GS&WR also put the wagon number on the inside of the doors.

Caherciveen

[Rob R]

One of my favourites.

Once again, the railway is not the focus of the photo but...

It has been seen before but the NLI scan is fantastic, the more you zoom in the better it gets.

Croagh Patrick, Westport

Edit. The M&GWR lettered their wagon door sheets as well.

Edited 6 hours ago by Rob R
extra info.

[Flying Snail]

15 minutes ago, Rob R said:

Edit. The M&GWR lettered their wagon door sheets as well.

And don't forget about the WCIR either Rob, they did it too as per this pic you found from Waterford for the WCIR thread (the rest of the stock here is WLWR - in the immediate aftermath of the takeover of both those railways by the GSWR.

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590012 W&CIR van just behind the erstwhile WL&WR N0 34

[Killian Keane]

I recently got some old bound volumes of the Railway Magazine, amongst the gems contained therein, some quite wonderful old BCDR locos

[leslie10646]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

 

Pages 65 & 67 have one of @leslie10646's brake vans in a slightly ticklish position.

 

Of dear, so my brake van has!

I must have words with "The Boys"!

[Patrick Davey]

30 minutes ago, Killian Keane said:

I recently got some old bound volumes of the Railway Magazine, amongst the gems contained therein, some quite wonderful old BCDR locos

Alan @Tullygrainey here are your next two projects!

[Flying Snail]

Another interesting shot from Portrush by Robert French - the tram in the foreground, but behind it are some tipping wagons with what I think is an open wagon on a lower level:

Original Lawrence Collection picture here: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000058791

Edited 3 hours ago by Flying Snail

[Mol_PMB]

The IRRS archive contains some very nice older photos, particularly those in the Harold Fayle collection:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/albums/72177720318213369

For those of you who are IRRS members, here are a few examples.

DSER 2-2-2T no.27 around 1920: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813452459/

WCR no.11 around 1900: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813368063/

GSWR 2-4-0 around 1905: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53812198452/

GSWR 4-wheel carriage around 1920: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813564205/

GNR no.70 with an express in the 1920s: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813553975/

DESR 0-4-2 no.59 around 1906: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813116576/

WLWR 2-4-0 no.6 around 1902: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813563110

MGWR 0-4-2 Comet around 1900: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813563865

GSWR 0-6-0 no.188 around 1920: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53812198922

GNR 0-6-0 no.145 around 1920: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53812188152

There are many more.

[Flying Snail]

11 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

The IRRS archive contains some very nice older photos, particularly those in the Harold Fayle collection:

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GSWR 2-4-0 around 1905: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53812198452/

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It's a good album alright, although there may be some errors in the labelling here and there - that particular GSWR loco is tagged as WLWR in the Flickr album, but in DB O'Neill's WCIR article in IRRS Journal 074 (October 1977) it's identified as WCIR No 7. Of course, regardless of whether it was originally WLWR or WCIR- by 1905 when the photo was taken it was indeed a GSWR loco .

Edited 4 hours ago by Flying Snail

[Galteemore]

12 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:

Another interesting shot from Portrush by Robert French - the tram in the foreground, but behind it are some tipping wagons with what I think is an open wagon a lower level:

Original Lawrence Collection picture here: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000058791

The tipping wagons are on the 5’3” harbour branch - the track of this can still be traced and the bridge in the background still exists. In later years the branch was used for carriage storage. It could take a few WT tanks some significant effort to lift long rakes off that steep and curved branch  

[Killian Keane]

14 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

The IRRS archive contains some very nice older photos, particularly those in the Harold Fayle collection:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/albums/72177720318213369

For those of you who are IRRS members, here are a few examples.

DSER 2-2-2T no.27 around 1920: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813452459/

WCR no.11 around 1900: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813368063/

GSWR 2-4-0 around 1905: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53812198452/

GSWR 4-wheel carriage around 1920: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813564205/

GNR no.70 with an express in the 1920s: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813553975/

DESR 0-4-2 no.59 around 1906: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813116576/

WLWR 2-4-0 no.6 around 1902: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813563110

MGWR 0-4-2 Comet around 1900: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53813563865

GSWR 0-6-0 no.188 around 1920: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53812198922

GNR 0-6-0 no.145 around 1920: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53812188152

There are many more.

The descriptions sound terribly interesting, unfortunately the first link gives me a 404 error, the rest 403

[Mol_PMB]

You need to be an IRRS member to see their Flickr archive. There are instructions on the website about how to register your membership number and Flickr ID. 
It’s well worth it with around 30,000 Irish railway images, and more being added regularly. 
The period best covered by the archive is probably 1950s to 1980s, but there are plenty of older and newer images too.