heirflick Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 gordon, im not familiar with the VMT. can you fill me in please? Quote
thewanderer Posted October 6, 2012 Author Posted October 6, 2012 Evening all, Friday night sunset at Newcastlewest and Saturday afternoon on the Kerry line with photos from Brewsterfield, Quagmire Viaduct, Mallow, Rathcoole, Millstreet, Farrenfore and Killarney. http://smu.gs/PgPVMM The Wanderer. Quote
thewanderer Posted October 8, 2012 Author Posted October 8, 2012 Morning all, Sunday was a busy day a trip from Kerry to the Midlands. We start off in Tralee and make our way to Farranfore to photograph the once a week crossing of trains on Sunday afternoon. Onwards from Farranfore we stop at Castleisland to view the former station, now a car park. After Abbeyfeale the N21 Road is close to the former North Kerry Line and there are photos of the Great Southern Cycle trail around the Templeglantine and Barnagh areas. I then paid a visit to Adare to see the mothballed Foynes Branch, no chance of a train running down the line in its current condition. On the far side of Limerick I photographed the 1740 Limerick - Ballybrophy service at several locations on the branch line. The pictures begin at: http://smu.gs/Pj1l2D The Wanderer. Quote
Gordon71 Posted October 8, 2012 Posted October 8, 2012 gordon, im not familiar with the VMT. can you fill me in please? Hi Heirflick Not totally sure but the wagon carries water which is used to clean the rails before the 80 class comes along and put the sandite paste on the rails Quote
Gordon71 Posted October 8, 2012 Posted October 8, 2012 8.10.12 was the start of this years day time working of the Sandite Train on NIR which is 8090-9097-8752-8094 same as last year . Link to a few photos of the train crossing the river bann bridge in Portadown http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/25815372_BX5JFq#!i=2136813487&k=zzBcsZQ Quote
thewanderer Posted October 14, 2012 Author Posted October 14, 2012 Evening folks, Latest pictures from the week are now at http://smu.gs/RrXyfn'>http://smu.gs/RrXyfn Mostly from Dublin Heuston during the week and on Saturday from Heuston, Dun-Laoghaire and Blackrock. Also on Saturday Dublin Bus Staff operated a RV Volvo Olympian farewell tour taking in various parts of the city. Pictures from this tour are at http://smu.gs/RrXyfn The Wanderer. Quote
heirflick Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 (edited) nice shots gordon. do you know if there is there an equivelent train to the sandite down the south? wanderer, nice pics as always. Edited October 15, 2012 by heirflick Quote
thewanderer Posted October 15, 2012 Author Posted October 15, 2012 nice shots gordon. do you know if there is there an equivelent train to the sandite down the south? wanderer, nice pics as always. Thanks heirflick. IE have three sandite capable vehicles. Sandite 728 Sandite 734 MPV 790 Despite being in Ireland for 3 years I've yet to get a decent picture of the bloody thing! I *believe* (and tbc) 790 is being used as the Dublin Sandite machine for this season. I'm not sure which of the other machines is based in Limerick Jct. for this season. The Wanderer. Quote
heirflick Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 another great learning day! many thanks wanderer for info and pics. seen 790 several times in portlaoise and kildare but have never seen 734 before. Quote
snapper Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 A few pictures from Patrickswell train station today. http://snail.smugmug.com/Trains/Patrickswell-2012/26039272_65vFKQ#!i=2162058011&k=ddqNjZ9 Quote
heirflick Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 snapper, any pics when the station was active? Quote
snapper Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 I am sure there are a few around but sadly I dont have any. Quote
heirflick Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 hard to find pics of it. not on eiretrains great site, but did find this on flicker ...hope nobody mindes - looks as though it was an interesting station. would love to have found a few track side pics Quote
Glenderg Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Fair play seamus. I looked up the planning file on that building the last time I was at home and there was sod all like that. It captures a great time. Incidentally, out of all the counties in Ireland, limerick appears to have the most diverse range of railway buildings and influences - cut stone, brick, lime plaster, and all manner of styles in between. Perhaps I'm biased though..... Quote
snapper Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Lost railway lines of Limerick and the South west by Stephen Johnson has a picture of J15 186 in Pactrickswell on7th June 1964, page 11 1 Quote
heirflick Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 thanks for that snapper. station buildings is something i never looked closely at ...until now! thanks for stirring up the interest. Quote
thewanderer Posted October 21, 2012 Author Posted October 21, 2012 Good evening all, I have spent the last couple of days in the UK, Photos from Connolly and Rosslare en route to the Ferry. http://smu.gs/RNYtHt Wednesday Day 1 of the UK Trip. After travelling overnight from Fishguard I arrived in London Paddington on time at 0732. From here I took the short journey on the Bakerloo Line to Marylebone to travel to Birmingham on Chiltern's Mainline Loco hauled service. After that I made my way north to Glasgow via the East Coast and the new Airdale line for the sleeper train to London. http://smu.gs/RNXBT8 Thursday Day 2 of the UK Trip: After travelling overnight on the Sleeper Train from Glasgow to London I headed across to Liverpool Street to travel to Norwich on Greater Angila's loco hauled mainline service with a brief stop at Ipswich to view the Freightliner's locomotive stabling yard. From Norwich, I headed North to Sheringham along the Bittern Line to visit the North Norfolk Railway. Later in the day I retraced my steps to Norwich and boarded what would be considered the longest non-intercity cross-country service in the UK, East Midlands Trains Norwich - Liverpool Lime Street service. Changing trains at Peterborough for an East Coast service to Leeds. My intended route from Leeds to Manchester had been to go via Halifax but the sight of a Class 142 Pacer for the 95 minute journey didn't appeal to me so I opted for a TPE Class 185 to cross the Pennines (in comfort). http://smu.gs/RNXRBp Day 3: Friday 19th October 2012: A day which didn't go exactly to plan. A couple of lunchtime photos of Trams in Manchester City Center before getting the Virgin Trains service to London. Day 4: Saturday 20th October 2012: Just two pictures from this day. Charing Cross and the disused Connaught Tunnel. Friday and Saturday Pictures: http://smu.gs/PKXT0R Enjoy, The Wanderer. Quote
Broithe Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 MPV 790Despite being in Ireland for 3 years I've yet to get a decent picture of the bloody thing! I *believe* (and tbc) 790 is being used as the Dublin Sandite machine for this season. I'm not sure which of the other machines is based in Limerick Jct. for this season. The Wanderer. IÉ currently have a picture of it up on the info about the Low Rail Adhesion situation that can occur around this time of year - plus an interesting little rail-side device - http://www.irishrail.ie/blog_post.jsp?blogID=1&a=330 Quote
heirflick Posted October 23, 2012 Posted October 23, 2012 another learning day for me broithe - thanks for posting! Quote
thewanderer Posted October 24, 2012 Author Posted October 24, 2012 (edited) Good evening all, The final part of my UK Trip covering Sunday to Tuesday which covers London to Aberdeen and several points in between. Sunday Day 5 of the UK Trip: Being based in London for the weekend and having a spare day today I travelled to various places on the London Underground & National Rail networks giving "Finnyus" a history lesson in the process. The route we took: Charing Cross - Kennington Loop - Clapham Common - Clapham North - Elephant & Castle - London Road Depot - Lambeth North - Piccadilly Circus - Queens Park - Willesden Jct - West Hampstead (NLL & Jubilee) - East Finchley - Wembley Park - Stanmore - Bus 142 - Edgware - Golders Green - Bus 240 - Mill Hill East - Finchley Central - East Finchley - Highgate - London Bridge - South London Line (soon to be withdrawn and replaced by the new ELL extension) - Victoria. Photos: http://smu.gs/PR5xHf Monday Day 6 of the UK Trip: This day hadn't been fully fleshed out in the planning process of this trip, but I had an aspiration to travel on the Open Access Operators from Kings Cross and do the Sleeper train from Aberdeen. Therefore it was an early alarm clock call from my hotel in SW London to get to Kings Cross for the 0720 Kings Cross - Hull, Hull Trains service formed of 180109. The 180 lived up the dire performance of the class and was failed in Hull upon arrival. Grand Central 180101 was on hand to replace it for the 1030 back to London. Decision time on what to do for the rest of the day and where to spend the night. Aberdeen looked a good option and I went to the Travel Centre to book a berth for the Sleeper to London. The people of Hull mustn’t book many sleeping car berths as it took about 10 minutes to find and complete the booking, unlike in Birmingham NS on Wednesday where the booking was completed in a matter of minutes. Sleeping Car booked and RAIL and Rail Express purchased from WH Smith I boarded a busy 170302 for the sprint to Selby. From Selby to York I got a rather shabby (interior) Northern 158 to York to await the arrival of Grand Central's 1123 London - Sunderland. A surprise sight was 60009 Union of South Africa making an appearance not long after I arrived. Waiting on platform 9 at York I was delighted to see the GC was an HST. Never being to Sunderland before I had heard many stories about the station. They weren't wrong. It is a bad as Birmingham New Street. I got the next Metro to Newcastle for a 91 to Edinburgh and a busy peak hour 3 car 170 to Aberdeen. The sleeper was already in the platform when I arrived with 67007 at the helm. After a walk around the town I boarded the sleeper and settled down for the evening with the alarm set for 0710 to get ready for the London arrival at 0743. Little did I know at the time at 0710 I would only be at Shap Summit. More of that in Tuesday's gallery. Photos: http://smu.gs/PR4S8N Tuesday Day 7 of the UK Trip: The day begins with a knock on my cabin door at 0640 from the sleeping car attendant to be informed of a fatal incident on the line overnight at Oxenholme involving a freight train (4M48) and that we are currently at Shap. So with that good news there was nothing to do but to go back to sleep. I awoke at 0900 to find us arriving at Preston, 267 minutes late. A 58 mile section of the journey, schedule for 58 minutes had taken about 2hours and 10 minutes to get through due to the congestion and Single Line Working. So with nothing much else to do I retired to the lounge car, which gradually got busier as the morning wore on and enjoyed a late breakfast and free refreshments from Scotrail. We lost a couple of more minutes between Preston & Crewe but managed to regain them by the Crewe stop. After Crewe and just when you can think nothing more can go wrong the brakes come on hard and we come to a stop at Whitehouse Jct. Initially thinking it was to allow some faster Pendolinos past it soon became clear that something was amiss when 66301 trundled past with the W.H. Malcolm Liner. Another 60 minute delay while the points were fixed. Arrival in Euston was at 1311, 324 minutes late. With the plans for the day thrown out the window there was nothing else to do but make my way out to Gatwick for the plane home. It was unfortunate that the 7 day trip had ended with such a massive delay, as all trains I had travelled on during the week had been on time or within +5 minutes of time. A full run down of the sleeper train for that night can be found at: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/schedule/G60507/2012-10-22/ Photos: http://smu.gs/RWhE1P For the first part of the trip and you’re looking for the link it may be found at Enjoy, The Wanderer. Edited October 24, 2012 by thewanderer Quote
Broithe Posted October 24, 2012 Posted October 24, 2012 The people of Hull mustn’t book many sleeping car berths as it took about 10 minutes to find and complete the booking, unlike in Birmingham NS on Wednesday where the booking was completed in a matter of minutes. The first time I booked a Stafford/Ballybrophy ticket it took three days to complete the purchase. Their system had no knowledge of such an exotic location and wouldn't sell me a ticket to a 'non-existent' place. I had to keep going off to get information to satisfy them and returning back to the station with it, as it is an offence to possess the phone number of a railway station here, without 'good cause', and I wasn't good enough to have it. On other occasions I was told that such a ticket didn't exist and, even when I showed them the last one that I had had, they still would not believe it. I could go on.... Quote
snapper Posted October 25, 2012 Posted October 25, 2012 I got an e-mail this morning from Fotopic saying that even though they are gone bust I can now get access to my old photos for a limited time to download them. I have done this and stuck them all in a new gallery on my smugmug. I am sure there is some duplication with the pictures I already have up but there are many that I didn’t have on smugmug. So for now I have put 436 photos in this gallery and I will remove the duplicates when I get a chance. http://snail.smugmug.com/Trains/Old-Fotopic-2/26143649_dz9tgm#!i=2173277355&k=MHzkSMN Enjoy snapper. Quote
heirflick Posted October 25, 2012 Posted October 25, 2012 all pics welcome snapper...look forward to seeing them! Quote
Garfield Posted October 25, 2012 Posted October 25, 2012 I got an e-mail this morning from Fotopic saying that even though they are gone bust I can now get access to my old photos for a limited time to download them. I have done this and stuck them all in a new gallery on my smugmug. I am sure there is some duplication with the pictures I already have up but there are many that I didn’t have on smugmug. So for now I have put 436 photos in this gallery and I will remove the duplicates when I get a chance. http://snail.smugmug.com/Trains/Old-Fotopic-2/26143649_dz9tgm#!i=2173277355&k=MHzkSMN Enjoy snapper. That's excellent news about Fotopic... hopefully a lot of photographers out there can restore their online collections. Quote
Glenderg Posted October 25, 2012 Posted October 25, 2012 Cheers snapper for doing that, some familiar shots on there, but the best has to be no 427. Great detail shots throughout. Richie. Quote
RedRich Posted October 25, 2012 Posted October 25, 2012 Nice one Snapper, fotopic was a great resource for photos and is sadly missed. Rich, Quote
BabyGM Posted October 26, 2012 Posted October 26, 2012 Nice collection of photos snapper:tumbsup: Quote
201bhoy Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 Yeah great news! What happened to Real Irish train photos, Sean clancy's one or Helskitchen? All great resources gone! Quote
snapper Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 Here is the full e-mail for those who are interested. If they are going alphabetically by name then they should be about half way through but it they are going by email then they have only just started. Dear ******* *********** We are contacting you as a former user of http://www.Fotopic.net As you are probably aware Snappy Designs Ltd, the company running Fotopic.net, went into liquidation in 2011. The assets of the company were bought by a private buyer in the hope of resuscitating Fotopic and integrating it into their photo portal. Subsequently this was found to be too costly an operation to set up and run. We reluctantly abandoned our plans but were aware that users still had photographs on the site of which they had no copies. For technical reasons it has taken us a while to get Fotopic operational again. We have only opened up Fotopic to allow existing users to view and download their pictures. Once this process is completed the site will be shut down again. So if you have images you want to retrieve please download them soon. You can log in using your existing Fotopic user name. Website:http://www.Fotopic.net User name: (your email address) *************** Password: your original password (an encrypted version is:************* which can be un-encrypted on this website: *********************) We are providing access on a rolling basis alphabetically on a trial basis, to make sure that our servers can cope with the anticipated load. By receiving this email you are now able to login and download your pictures. Kind regards Your Fotopic Team Sent from Fotopic Quote
Broithe Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 Here is the full e-mail for those who are interested. If they are going alphabetically by name then they should be about half way through but it they are going by email then they have only just started. They seem to be going by username - "We have opened up Fotopic access alphabetically for users with username (not surname) up to and including the letter “B”. We hope to start with the letter “C” shortly." Usernames beginning with 0 to 9 should have been notified also, as they come before A.. Quote
snapper Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 well if they are going by user name then they are up to C Quote
Broithe Posted October 28, 2012 Posted October 28, 2012 well if they are going by user name then they are up to C It does actually go on to say "We hope to start with the letter “C” shortly.", but I left that bit off. They must be too busy sorting it out to keep the home page fully up-to-date. Quote
thewanderer Posted October 29, 2012 Author Posted October 29, 2012 Good evening all, A update to my 2700 Class gallery farewell which was orginlly published in August 2012. Oliver Doyle, retired Operations Schemes Development Manager has kindly supplied me with several photographs from a photographic run in 1998 between Dundalk and Dublin, plus one photo from the GEC Alsthom factory in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, Barcelona. The first of the photos are at: http://smu.gs/Q2uTlw Two photos from last Saturday: 22004 + 22050 at Portarlington with the 1505 Galway - Heuston. http://smu.gs/Q2v404 3022 crosses Sean Heuston Bridge. http://smu.gs/Q2prir Enjoy, The Wanderer. Quote
thewanderer Posted October 30, 2012 Author Posted October 30, 2012 Evening folks, Pictures from the Drumcondra area showing some of the altered arrangements in place for the North Strand Engineering Work. Also pictures from Connolly and Heuston. http://smu.gs/ScDVIH LUAS Red Line Pictures at Busaras: http://smu.gs/Q59tEc The Wanderer. Quote
heirflick Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 Good evening all, A update to my 2700 Class gallery farewell which was orginlly published in August 2012. Oliver Doyle, retired Operations Schemes Development Manager has kindly supplied me with several photographs from a photographic run in 1998 between Dundalk and Dublin, plus one photo from the GEC Alsthom factory in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, Barcelona. The first of the photos are at: http://smu.gs/Q2uTlw great pics of the ARROW....god that livery brings back a lot of memories!! thanks for posting that bit of history:tumbsup: Quote
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