Irishswissernie Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 (edited) Portadown 16 March 1963. now corrected to Lisburn Strabane 16 Sept 1958 43 shunting Portarlington 151 on IRRS special 18 March 1963 Edited April 13, 2022 by Irishswissernie 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Cavan & Leitrim Railway 13 March 1959 Dromod Lawderdale Fenagh Adoon 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambeg man Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 On 11/4/2022 at 7:58 AM, Irishswissernie said: Portadown 16 March 1963 Hi Ernie, Brilliant stuff as always, many thanks for taking the time to post. Pretty sure that is the end of the UP platform at LISBURN. The 'gallows' starter signal and water column are the indicators. Not sure any Portadown platform ends had such an arrangement. LM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LARNE CABIN Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Agree, @Lambeg man, definitely Lisburn! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Lambeg man said: Hi Ernie, Brilliant stuff as always, many thanks for taking the time to post. Pretty sure that is the end of the UP platform at LISBURN. The 'gallows' starter signal and water column are the indicators. Not sure any Portadown platform ends had such an arrangement. LM Very certainly the up line in Lisburn, yes. Chimneys of the old linen factory in the background. There's a shappin' centre there now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 It looks as if Roy D captioned his slides and records some time after his visit. Title amended; thanks guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 (edited) Ex GNRI in June 1961 132 said to be on the Oldcastle branch . Where anyone? 204 & 132 + ? , Amiens Street shed 85 & railcar 2648 at Amiens St Station Todays flickr uploads takes the GNRI folder to past 1000 images. Edited April 13, 2022 by Irishswissernie 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 2 hours ago, Irishswissernie said: Ex GNRI in June 1961 132 said to be on the Oldcastle branch . Where anyone? 204 & 132 + ? , Amiens Street shed 85 & railcar 2648 at Amiens St Station Todays flickr uploads takes the GNRI folder to past 1000 images. Possibly Bective on the Meath Road. 132 worked an IRRS special over the Meath Line to Kingscourt in June 1961. There is a Greg Child photo of 132 coupled to a grubby Luggage Van at Dunboyne in Irish Railways in Colour Tom Ferris 1992. Bective had a single platform on the down side with the sidings at the North end of the station. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connollystn Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Very knowledgeable @Mayner, didn't know there was a place name known as Bective 'til your post [above]. Referenced the 'Railway Map of Ireland 1906' to see where it is - wonder if it'll reopen when the line is extended from the M3 Parkway all the way to Navan. Great stuff @Irishswissernie - keep posting those photographs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambeg man Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 4 hours ago, Irishswissernie said: 204 & 132 + ? , Amiens Street shed Left to right, CIE 'S' No. 174N, CIE 'Q' No. 132N & UTA 'VS' No. 58. Photo taken on the morning of Sunday 4th June 1961. 4 hours ago, Irishswissernie said: 85 & railcar 2648 at Amiens St Station CIE 'V' No. 85 about to leave with SLS/RTCS/IRRS special to Belfast on Friday 9th June 1961. The 'V' worked the train as far as Dundalk where UTA 'WT' No. 55 was waiting to work the remainder of the journey. 4 hours ago, Irishswissernie said: 132 said to be on the Oldcastle branch . Where anyone? On Saturday 3rd June 1961 the IRRS special hauled by CIE 'Q' No. 132N. The route taken was Amiens Street - Clonsilla - Navan - Kingscourt - Navan - Oldcastle - Navan - Drogheda - Amiens Street. The flat bottomed rails seen in the photo would tend to indicate a location between Navan and Kingscourt. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Lambeg man said:The flat bottomed rails seen in the photo would tend to indicate a location between Navan and Kingscourt. Well spotted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambeg man Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 The 1961 Tour Party photographed at Banagher 8th June 1961. One presumes Mr. Dennison may be present. Any of you older sweats willing to have a go at identifying any of the participants? The catering crew from the Kitchen Car go without saying, but who were the women??? Noted photographers on this trip (whose work has been published elsewhere) were Keith Pirt, David Lawrence, Rev. John Parker, Greg Child, R. Cole, D. Penney and T.B. Owen. 'Bob' Clements is somewhere in this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 The only gents I can identify are Joe St Leger, Clifton Flewitt and Norman McAdams - possibly a very young David Houston and Norman Foster. The ladies would have been wives of English participants. Lance King was there, but I think kept out of this shot. He only took one shot in B&W and a single slide here - remarkable clear of ANY particpants. It was after this tour that Lance founded the London Area of the IRRS and I intend to cover the 1961 tour extensively in my "Lance King on Tour" talk to the IRRS in a year's time (if I'm spared!). I showed Lance's photo here in my first Lance talk in 2019. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambeg man Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Henry Casserley??? Micheal Costeloe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 11 hours ago, connollystn said: Very knowledgeable @Mayner, didn't know there was a place name known as Bective 'til your post [above]. Referenced the 'Railway Map of Ireland 1906' to see where it is - wonder if it'll reopen when the line is extended from the M3 Parkway all the way to Navan. Great stuff @Irishswissernie - keep posting those photographs. I got to know the Meath Line shortly after closure during the 60s as a result of Sunday afternoon drives with my parents, we even walked a section of the line near Dunsany Castle shortly before the track was lifted. Some of my earliest modelling projects were based on the Meath Line including a 4mm balsa model of Dunboyne Station building and an N gauge layout based on Kilmessan Junction. I explored most of the station sites after I bought my first car in my early twenties. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Alex Ford images today, courtesy of the Transport Library. C&L 4L on a transporter wagon at Inchicore 28 June 1950 Dublin Broadstone 544 on a goods same date. Dublin Amiens Street, 2 on 25 June 1950 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 I enjoyed watching Leslie McCallister's excellent IRRS Lance King slide show Webinar last night. Here are a few views at Belfast York Road, the slides are by Roy Dennison from 1987. First view is from 6 September 1958 In the second view you can just see a former CIE C Class Last view is the former Midland hotel I also probably have more NCC HC Casserley negatives which havn't yet been uploaded but its having to sort out which ones due to former computer woes! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galteemore Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 (edited) Awesome stuff Ernie. Views I saw every day on my school commute 83-39. You can also just glimpse a container extreme right. Those sidings were the resting place of many sad items at that point including a steam crane, and some DH locos. Edited April 15, 2022 by Galteemore 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Foxrock area, 15 March 1959 Cobh 1 June 1958 Athenry 18 May 1959 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 CDRJC 4 Dec 1959 , 11.10 am Strabane - Killybegs. Cork Glanmire Road , 217 19 Sept 1957 & J11 220 9 Sept 1958 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Keep them coming Ernie especially new CDR photos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scahalane Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Interesting looking steam crane on the right of the coaling bank at Glanmire Rd. Wonder if there's any wider shots of that knocking around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 Clonakilty 5 June 1958, 90 on shed between Courtmacsherry branch duty. 2 views at Ballaghaderreen 19 May 1959 Last image, Collooney ex WLW 18 May 1959. The train is on the curve connecting to the ex M&GW line to Sligo. Sidings on the right are the ex WL&W (GS&WR) goods yard and the line in the centre going under the bridges is the connection to the (already closed) Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway at their Collooney station. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Davey Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 The Collooney view is interesting - so I am guessing then that there was a direct connection from The Burma Road onto the SLNCR? I don't have an atlas to hand so if so, does that mean that there could have been an uninterrupted journey from places south as far as Derry? Just looked up the layout at Limerick and Athenry so as far as I can see, it looks like a train could have left Tralee, bypassed Limerick, turned left towards Ennis, crossed the Galway line at Athenry, joined the SLNCR at Collooney, passed through Enniskillen and Omagh and ended its journey at Derry Foyle Road? @jhb171achill can you verify? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galteemore Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Patrick Davey said: The Collooney view is interesting - so I am guessing then that there was a direct connection from The Burma Road onto the SLNCR? I don't have an atlas to hand so if so, does that mean that there could have been an uninterrupted journey from places south as far as Derry? Just looked up the layout at Limerick and Athenry so as far as I can see, it looks like a train could have left Tralee, bypassed Limerick, turned left towards Ennis, crossed the Galway line at Athenry, joined the SLNCR at Collooney, passed through Enniskillen and Omagh and ended its journey at Derry Foyle Road? @jhb171achill can you verify? There was a direct link at Collooney,known as the ‘southern siding’, which indeed would have facilitated such traffic flows. Unused by the 50s (I think the advent of the GSR marked the end of its frequent use) and largely occupied by stored wagons. IIRC this is it at the SLNC end, trailing in right of pic. An @Irishswissernieimage. Edited April 18, 2022 by Galteemore 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 The train would still have had to reverse at Enniskillen when coming off the SLNCR because the connection to the GNRI connected with the dead end exchange sidings and not the running line and therefore no direct route. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 West Clare after closure but during track recovery etc Ennis 7 June 1961. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Dublin Amiens Street today. 1958-09-19 Dublin Amiens St QGTs 99 shunts the yard 151 on IRRS SPL 18 Mar 1963 & 85 on another SPL 9 June 1961 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike 84C Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 That signal at Colooney looks strange/interesting, two arms sharing a single lamp? Mounted on one of those Courtney,Stevens and Bailey posts are there any more pictures of that signal at higher resolution? Can I feel a model coming on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StevieB Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Is that the one which is at the National Tramway Museum, Crich? Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambeg man Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 1 hour ago, StevieB said: Is that the one which is at the National Tramway Museum, Crich? No, I don't think it is. The one at Crich is a double deck GNR 'Hill of Howth Tramway' vehicle. The one in the photo is a single decker. It is possibly one of the DUTC trams that ran from Dublin to Howth, but not to the 'Summit' of the Hill of Howth? However I will stand corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Blarney Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 (edited) On 20/4/2022 at 5:05 PM, Lambeg man said: No, I don't think it is. The one at Crich is a double deck GNR 'Hill of Howth Tramway' vehicle. The one in the photo is a single decker. It is possibly one of the DUTC trams that ran from Dublin to Howth, but not to the 'Summit' of the Hill of Howth? However I will stand corrected. I'm sorry to have to correct you. A) The tram in this photograph is a former GNR(I) Hill of Howth Car No 9. It resembles a single deck car because the upper-deck chastity board and the mesh wire surround has been removed. The one in the photo is a single decker. It is possibly one of the DUTC trams that ran from Dublin to Howth, but not to the 'Summit' of the Hill of Howth? B) No it is not. The DUTC Cars running on Route 31, from The Pillar to Howth Village were Double Deck Cars. DUTC, Single Deck Cars, (other than Maintenance vehicles) were only ever used on the route from The Pillar to Sandymount Tower. They ran via Bath Avenue, thus they travelled under a low Bridge which neccessitated that single Deck Cars be used. These cars were altered Double Deckers, with their upper deck removed. The Hill of Howth Car at Crich, No 10, is the Sister of the Car in the photograph. Edited April 22, 2022 by Old Blarney 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 (edited) I have views of 9 and sister 10 on flickr. They differed from the other Hill of Howth cars in that the entrance/exits were both on the same side of the car. You can see how easy it would be to remove the panels etc surrounding the upper deck probably done to facilitate storage or reduce the height whilst being transported on the road vehicle. The first cars Numbers 1 to 8 were built by Brush whilst the last 2 nos. 9 and 10 were built by Milnes and had different trucks and originally open sided lower decks which didn't work to well up on the hill. The lower decks were thus later glazed. Edited April 20, 2022 by Irishswissernie 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Cavan & Leitrim, Kiltubrid on the Arigna branch 13 March 1959. Streamstown IRRS SPL going to Clara 18 March 1963. Courtmacsherry 13 January 1961 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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