Interesting not-so-early Irish Railway photos

[jhb171achill]

3 minutes ago, GSWR 90 said:

Ireland's most glorious diesel loco, G613 at Heuston, 1962, from the O'Dea Collection. 

But what is it pulling? A carriage (no underfloor engine) with a window and lights at the end? Not a Bulleid AEC, not one of the Park Royals converted to driving trailers for the Waterford and Tramore – what is it?

Possibly one of the 1900-series brake thirds of early CIE (immediately pre-laminate) days? Several later GSR and earlier CIE types had windows in the guard's end. It is seen shunting, obviously; next to this are two early repaints into black'n'tan - a laminate and a Park Royal. Three bogies was their maximum load for work like this. Overall, as shunters in a place like Kingsbridge or Westland Row, they were about as useful as a chocolate teapot! However, there is plenty of evidence they tried them on a number of types of work - even the Limerick - Foynes mixed, which must hold a record of some sort for distance travelled with a service train (and a mixed at that) with a small shunting engine.....

The modeller will note, of course, there's a "prototype for everything"!

[Mol_PMB]

1906 or 1907, one of the AEC ‘mules’. See also Ernie’s thread.