Photos of Preserved Locos in Service

[GSWR 90]

I am always quite tickled when I see a photo/video of a preserved loco/railcar/carriage/etc. when it was in service. Please feel free to post any photos like this below. 

To get the ball rolling, here are some DCDR locos before preservation

CSE Thurles No. 1 in the 1950s.

146 and 190 near Kildare, March 2008. Photo by Dylan Kinsella. 

GSWR 90 (then Castleisland Railway "C") in as-built condition, probably when it was built in 1875.

B124 being unloaded in Dublin, the first GM loco to arrive in Ireland. Photo by Jim O'Dea, 1961. 

[Mol_PMB]

My pic of 055 at Ennis, now preserved at Castlerea:

Photo by A Leach, 124 on a Cork-Tralee service:

Not really on topic, as it isn't a loco:

I'm sure I can find some more.

[Westcorkrailway]

These 2 locos are currently about the same distance away now as they were in this photo. 1875 built 90 with future roommate 1958 built C231.

 

i have a picture of 2624 working in west cork, which became 6111 also preserved in Downpatrick. Can’t find it though! 
 

both of these rustons have survived. One is in Belturbet and the other is in Clonakilty

 

[Mol_PMB]

124 at Cork with the mail in 1961. But what's that van behind the loco? Could be a UTA crest on the side. Pigeons?

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000305726

 

 

[MD220]

146, Holyhead yard, North Wall, Dublin on the 28th of May 1990. My photo.

Edited May 4 by MD220

[jhb171achill]

On 4/11/2025 at 5:17 PM, Mol_PMB said:

124 at Cork with the mail in 1961. But what's that van behind the loco? Could be a UTA crest on the side. Pigeons?

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000305726

 

 

Exactly - flying rats!

This just has to be amongst the rarest visit of anything to anywhere. The coach is a (pre-NCC) Belfast & Northern Counties Rly. full parxcels brake, as used primarily to carry mails between Belfast & Derry (via Coleraine) in the late 1890s. Quite a few BNCR coaches survived the LMS modernisation in the late 1930s, but there was a "cull" of older stock, especially non-corridor types, by the UTA in the 1950s. Despuite that a FEW BNCR vehicles made into the early 60s, but no longer.

I have never before seen a picture of a BNCR vehicle south of Lisburn! And you couldn't get much further soutgh than Cork (Glanmire Rioad)!

[jhb171achill]

On 3/11/2025 at 11:05 PM, GSWR 90 said:

I am always quite tickled when I see a photo/video of a preserved loco/railcar/carriage/etc. when it was in service. Please feel free to post any photos like this below. 

To get the ball rolling, here are some DCDR locos before preservation

CSE Thurles No. 1 in the 1950s.

146 and 190 near Kildare, March 2008. Photo by Dylan Kinsella. 

GSWR 90 (then Castleisland Railway "C") in as-built condition, probably when it was built in 1875.

This is interesting. Normally, when you had any sort of railmotor or other vehicle consisting of a loco part and a coach part, the loco was in the standard company loco livery, and the coach in the standard coach livery.

In this case, it's green, as GSWR locos were then lined green. But that coach part is most certainly not the extremely dark brownish maroon which ws standard for the GSWR then; in fact, it looks to be the loco colour! Could it also be green? The green also looks to be WAY lighetr than the extremely dark olive green the GSWR used, though the lining is similar in style.

The GSWR railmotors, though several decades later, had the dark crimson lake colour on carriages, which in photos looks more or less black, and the loco portions in loco colour.

So what may we conclude?

My suggestion is that this is NOT in GSWR livery - it is the livery of the Castleisland Railway Company. Since this company owned not one thing on wheels bar this contraption, it may be taken that their livery, if they had one, was unique to this. Since the GSWR very quickly acquired it and numbered it 90, it would have acquired GSWR livery after only a short time.

There is no "90" Inchicore numberplate on it either, which adds weight to GSWR90's suggestion that it's in original condition.

So, could we be looking at the only photographic evidence of the C.R. Co.'s own livery - I would suggest we are.

I wonder, therefore, what it is? Possibly (probably) a mid-green?

So what may we conclude?

 

[MD220]

055, Tuam, 13th May 1989. My photo.