Irish….ish Locomotives

[Westcorkrailway]

Some foreign locomotives with very strong Irish Connections
 

Im hoping to uncover more examples of these types of locos

This locomotive is a sister to the 2 peckets on the Schull and Skibbereen. And is named Gabriel, same as S&S loco which is named after the mountain in Schull, and is located in New Zealand, still around today 

 

A MGWR 2-2-2 locomotive was built, but the midland never paid for it. It ended up in Brazil, and also still survives 

[Galteemore]

Very nice. The Brazil 2-2-2 is how the MGWR ‘Elf’ class looked before rebuilding with saddle tanks 

[jhb171achill]

When I was in Myanmar about 6 or 7 years ago, I saw a plinthed 3ft or 3ft 6ins gauge 2.6.4T which was as close as dammit to a Donegal 5B!

[Mol_PMB]

The Manx Peacocks and Southern N / U class fit the bill. LMS Jinties too. 
 

 

[Galteemore]

The Australian K class have very close links to SLNC small tanks 

[Mayner]

Checked out Gabriel (Peckett 4-4-0T) and the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway when we visited Northland about 20 years ago. At the time the railway was going through a difficult time, the NZ Transport Agency had withdrawn the railways operating license in 2001 and Gabriel required a major repairs. The group that controls the railway began to gradually restore and re-open the line and recently completed the overhaul of Gabriel  complete with a new boiler https://bayofislandsvintagerailway.org.nz/.  

As far as I recall the loco built 1927 for use in a Cement Works only acquired the name "Gabiel" after it passed into preservation during the late 1980s.   Apparently Peckett supplied five 4-4-0T of the same/similar design to Gabriel: Two to the S&S, Two to Borneo (plantations?) & One to New Zealand (Cement Works which also operated 2 small Peckett 0-4-2Ts)

One of the most distinctive features of the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway is that the line runs down the main street of KawaKawa (a reasonable sized town) in  similaar manner to the Clogher Valley through Fivemile town. The main street is on SH1 the main road linking Northland to Auckland and the rest of the country and can be quite busy. At one stage the line was a section of a main line from Auckland to the port of Opua in the Bay of Islands served by the trice weekly "Opua Express' with 4-8-2 and main line EE & A1A A1A locos & diesel railcars regularly operating over the line.

 

I must find an excuse to visit Northland again and ride the train.

[Killian Keane]

After his time with the GS&WR Alexander McDonnell moved to the North Eastern in England and produced some very familiar looking locos in the shape of classes 38 and 59, dead ringers for the much more long lived 52 and 101 classes

[jhb171achill]

7 hours ago, Galteemore said:

The Australian K class have very close links to SLNC small tanks 

G'day!

I'm seeing flocks of wild roaming kangaroos in rural Co. Leitrim...... Wallabies at Kilmakerrill, and kangaroos just outside Glenfarne..... 16 metre long snakes, and ten-foot-wide killer spiders nesting behind the loco shed at Manorhamilton....

And funny old men digging turf near Dromahaire wearing shorts and hats with corks hanging off them, mate.....

2 hours ago, Killian Keane said:

After his time with the GS&WR Alexander McDonnell moved to the North Eastern in England and produced some very familiar looking locos in the shape of classes 38 and 59, dead ringers for the much more long lived 52 and 101 classes

PURE GSWR, yes.....

Edited yesterday at 15:09 by jhb171achill

[Colonel]

REALLY don't like snakes, so thank you St Patrick!

[commerlad]

Well the Wallabies don't have far to swim.

Wallabies and the Isle of Man | Manx Wildlife Trust

[Mol_PMB]

8 minutes ago, commerlad said:

Well the Wallabies don't have far to swim.

Wallabies and the Isle of Man | Manx Wildlife Trust

There are plenty of marsupials in County Cork! It may even be possible to spot them from a train on the line to Cobh.

[jhb171achill]

There are wild wallabies on Lambay Island…..

[Broithe]

4 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

There are plenty of marsupials in County Cork! It may even be possible to spot them from a train on the line to Cobh.

Not marsupials maybe, but I've always liked this picture of a few lemurs heading off for a night out in the metropolis.
 

That No Pedestrians sign needs updating - the instruction is clearly only applicable to humans.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/19970181912/in/photolist-wqGpkf

[Mol_PMB]

Wonderful! 

[Bullet_Wanderer]

In Portugal’s Museu Nacional Ferroviário, national railway museum, they have a 2-2-2 Fairbairn tank engine very similar to ones that used to run in Ireland !