Warbonnet Posted May 11, 2015 Posted May 11, 2015 My Merlin effort, and a Cork - Dublin Train Merlin Clondalkin/Fonthill by franburke, on Flickr Mark IV Cork - Dublin by franburke, on Flickr Quote
thewanderer Posted May 12, 2015 Author Posted May 12, 2015 Evening all, All the other odds and sods from the weekend just gone have now been uploaded to the May Gallery. Click http://smu.gs/1H1UzTB Photo from each day below: Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Quote
thewanderer Posted May 14, 2015 Author Posted May 14, 2015 Evening all, I agree George! A few updates from the past week: May Gallery: Main highlight being 206 in the brand new Enterprise livery working a MKIV trial and later on the 1700 express to Cork. Plus 209 on the HOBS Train at Heuston. http://smu.gs/1Gazme0 The Strand Diesel RPSI Tour: Photos from the railtour to M3 Parkway and Rosslare Strand on Friday 8th May. http://smu.gs/1GazxpG RPSI South Munster Tour: A guest gallery of images from the main RPSI tour to Cork and Killarney. Pictures from locations that I didn't manage to make it to. http://smu.gs/1A3f71d Quote
hurricanemk1c Posted May 15, 2015 Posted May 15, 2015 Good evening all, A few updates from me. 231 at Heuston, 13/5/15 with a few odds and sods of Heuston Portlaoise, 14/5/15 and a couple of shots, including 206 on the 1700 Heuston - Cork Heuston, 15/5/15, with 206 waiting for transfer to Inchicore Full set of photos from May are here - Regards, Kieran Quote
thewanderer Posted May 18, 2015 Author Posted May 18, 2015 Evening all, Some photos from the past few days. Includes Perway Panel Trains and Top and Tail HOBS. Click http://smu.gs/1HqENHl to view. The Wanderer. Quote
thewanderer Posted May 19, 2015 Author Posted May 19, 2015 Morning all! Day 1 of a UK Rover. First off was a ferry trip on the Irish Ferries Ulysses from Dublin Ferryport to Holyhead. From Holyhead I boarded the 1301 to Manchester Piccadilly which uses the recently introduced 2nd loco hauled diagram on Arriva Trains Wales North Wales Coast Services. At Manchester I boarded a delayed Transpennie Express service bound for Middlesborough as far as York This proved to be a major blessing in disguise as due to a failed train in the Leeds area we were diverted via Castleford. The service from Manchester I had planned to get missed my connecting service at York by 10 minutes. With about 10 minutes to spare at York, I boarded the 1600 Kings Cross - Aberdeen Virgin Trains East Coast service to Dundee, from there I boarded the Caledonian Sleeper service back south. Pictures begin at http://smu.gs/1GnCVxD Enjoy, The Wanderer. Quote
thewanderer Posted May 20, 2015 Author Posted May 20, 2015 Day two of a multi day UK Rover: I alighted from the Highland Sleeper at Crewe shortly after 0530 and made my way to Manchester to meet a friend for an early breakfast. After Manchester, I hopped on a new TPE 350 to Preston to catch the 1004 Preston - Barrow in Furness loco hauled service. At Barrow this connects into the 2nd loco hauled diagram which forms the 1138 to Carlisle. After a trip lasting over four hours, I finally arrived at Carlisle where a short break was taken before setting off to Kilmarnock. The reason being? Try and see if any former Iarnrod Eireann MK3 carriages were lurking outside Brodie Engineering. Sadly there weren't. After the walk back to the station it was the short hop into Glasgow for a few hours of relaxation before the sleeper to London overnight. All the pictures from the day, along with two videos can be found at http://smu.gs/1GqiWhM The Wanderer. Quote
thewanderer Posted May 23, 2015 Author Posted May 23, 2015 Morning all, Days Three and Four of the UK Rover: Thursday: After arriving at London Euston 35 minutes early off the Sleeper from Glasgow I made my way to Liverpool Street to catch a service to Norwich. The plan for today was to travel on what is known as the "Norwich Short Set". This started on a regular basis in March 2013 to cover for a long term shortage of Diesel Multiple Units. The short hauled set (loco 3 coaches loco) covers the local routes between Norwich and Great Yarmouth/Lowestoft. Shortly after departing London, the news on the status of today's short set wasn't good. The locos were in trouble and the situation was fluid (a situation many will be used too in trying to run a railway). I decided to press on and arrived at Norwich to be greeted with the Loco hauled set in the nearby Crown Point Depot. It didn't look like it was going anywhere and my worst fears were confirmed when the 1036 to Great Yarmouth was announced as a bus transfer. A new plan was needed, rather fast! I jumped back on the MK3 set for London Liverpool Street on the 1030 departure. A quick look at the map and I decided to alight at Ipswich and cover some new track for the day. Ipswich - Cambridge - Kings Lynn and back to London via Bishops Stortford. Click http://smu.gs/1IR1vc4 to view. Friday was centred around London with a mid morning trip out and back to Swindon from Paddington. Later in the evening I did a Class 68 from Marylebone to High Wycombe on the 1750 Banbury. The rest of the day has pictures from around London. Click http://smu.gs/1Hoy8bu to view. The Wanderer. Quote
thewanderer Posted May 23, 2015 Author Posted May 23, 2015 Pictures from today's UK Railtours "The Juniper Factor" from London to Poole via a few locations in between are now online. Click the picture for the full collection. Quote
Eiretrains Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Really great image.Did you have much PP to do on that? What setting were used? Thanks, it was a long exposure but surprisingly I didn't need to tweak the lighting as the platform lamps gave enough illumination, I did crop the image as there was a lot of unnecessary foreground Quote
Eiretrains Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 Hi all, I've added some pictures of the PWD works a few weekends ago in Dublin to my Flickr: IE 072 PWD Ballast+Spoil, Harmonstown by Ciarán Cooney, on Flickr IE 072 HOBS arrives at Harmonstown by Ciarán Cooney, on Flickr IE 072 Spoil 'Wrong Road', Killester by Ciarán Cooney, on Flickr Plus IWT and 206 capture in the Cherry Orchard area: IE 084 IWT Liner passing Cherry Orchard by Ciarán Cooney, on Flickr Coming soon to the 'Enterprise', 206 by Ciarán Cooney, on Flickr And finally a video from 2008 at Malahide: Thanks for looking and stay tuned for more videos here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Eiretrains Quote
hurricanemk1c Posted May 24, 2015 Posted May 24, 2015 Good morning all, A couple of shots from Hazelhatch in the morning (20/5/15): Due to a Road Traffic Accident involving a car and tram 4003, trams from The Point were terminating and reversing at Smithfield, utilising the little-used crossover between Smithfield and Four Courts Full set here - A selection of shots from yesterday's Engineering Works, with photos from:. Heuston Newbridge (and the worksite) Stacummy Bridge Kildare Portarlington Full set can be seen here - Regards, Kieran Quote
thewanderer Posted May 27, 2015 Author Posted May 27, 2015 New 06.15hrs Cork to Dublin non-stop Express service begins Mon 25th May The new service will have a journey time of 2 hours 15 minutes, arriving in Dublin Heuston at 08.30hrs. Minor changes to some other services also. We are delighted to introduce a new non-stop express service daily (Monday to Friday): •06.15hrs from Cork’s Kent Station to Dublin Heuston, with a journey time of 2 hours 15 minutes, arriving in Heuston Station at 08.30hrs. The new service operates from Monday 25th May onwards, and is being introduced following the approval of the National Transport Authority. The new express service is being introduced following customer research, with a particular demand identified for a faster morning service arriving in Dublin at 08.30hrs, to facilitate business meeting needs. This will be the only non-stop service of its type on our national network, and will enable customers to maximise the benefits of travelling with Iarnród Éireann – allowing productive use of time and offering free wifi, charge points for phones at every seat – while giving our best journey time. We intend for this to be the beginning of a series of continuing journey time improvements, including network upgrades to deliver further speed enhancements on all our services, to ensure the train is the most competitive option for customers As part of the introduction of the new 06.15hrs Cork to Dublin Express service, the following changes will also be implemented, following the approval of the National Transport Authority: •06.00hrs Cork to Dublin Heuston (Mon-Sat) will now depart at 05.55hrs, and operate 5 to 10 minutes earlier throughout. •04.55hrs Tralee to Mallow (Mon only) will now depart at 04.50hrs, and operate 5 to 8 minutes earlier throughout. •05.15hrs Westport to Dublin Heuston will now depart at 05.25hrs, and operate 6 to 10 minutes later throughout. •08.09hrs Newbridge to Dublin Heuston will now depart at 08.11hrs, and operate 2 minutes later throughout. •06.55hrs Athlone to Dublin Heuston (Sat only) will now depart at 07.05hrs and operate between 6 and 10 minutes later throughout. The press launch occurred on Wednesday 27th May and 22010 is pictured passing Killenard with the new express service. Click the picture for full details. Quote
thewanderer Posted May 27, 2015 Author Posted May 27, 2015 Evening all, I finally got around to uploading the final day of my recent UK Rover which was on Sunday 24th May which was a single journey from London out to Gatwick Airport. I had about an hour to kill in the Airport before I needed to head through security clearance so I popped back to the station to observe the comings and goings. The last part of the gallery has images of Dun-Laoghaire, Dublin and Howth taken from EI-CVA performing flight EI243. Click http://smu.gs/1dyspIZ to view. The events page has been updated which details forthcoming Iarnrod Eireann service changes and RPSI Specials: http://www.thewandererphotos.com/LinksEvents Quote
thewanderer Posted May 30, 2015 Author Posted May 30, 2015 Evening all, Some odds and sods from around Portarlington this evening. Includes: - 209 with the 1700 Cork. - 215 with the 1800 Cork - 084 at Portarlington. Plus the usual diet of ICR's. Click http://smu.gs/1Rzhop5 to view. Quote
thewanderer Posted May 31, 2015 Author Posted May 31, 2015 Evening all, Two updates this evening from the Great Northern Mainline between Dublin and Drogheda. The first features the RPSI Balbriggan Festival shuttles which operated from Connolly to Balbriggan before operating two return Specials to Drogheda and then back to Connolly. These can be found at http://smu.gs/1ACKBeH The second gallery features the other stuff along the line from the day, from 29000's to NIR 3000's with 22000's and a De-Dietrich in the middle. These can be found at http://smu.gs/1SMUBYA Both galleries can be accessed directly from the home page as well http://www.thewandererphotos.com Quote
Noel Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 Nice pics. The refurbished GSV 3173 looks great. Any idea why she has the maroon livery and not one visually compatible with the rest of the RPSI coaching stock? Quote
hurricanemk1c Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 The offical reason is to enable it to run with the Heritage (Wooden) stock and not to show up diesel stains. Whilst it looks good, I doubt the Heritage set will ever run again. More than willing to be proved wrong though! Quote
finnyus Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 Evening all, some photos taken over the last few weeks: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/ Includes: - Canada (Alberta and British Columbia) - USA (Seattle) - Balbriggan Festial steam spls - 073 + sprayer at Cork - 231 on Cork InterCity duties Finbarr Quote
thewanderer Posted June 1, 2015 Author Posted June 1, 2015 Evening all, The first day of Summer? The weather had other ideas today! As a result today's photographs only comprise the bare minimum. (8)209 1500 Heuston - Cork. 086 and 087 on the timber trains. Click the picture to access the gallery. Quote
finnyus Posted June 3, 2015 Posted June 3, 2015 GM 073 heading Midleton at Cobh Junction hauling the weedsprayer, 02.06.2015: Quote
hurricanemk1c Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Evening all, A 11 mile trek around Portlaoise to see the Engineering Works on at Milepost 48 (Straboe). Photos include the top and tail HOBS and various track machines at work. A video of 743 tamping will be availalbe tomorrow All photos can be seen here - Regards, Kieran Quote
thewanderer Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 Evening all, Barry Pickup was out and about on Sunday for the RPSI's Steam Enterprise trip from Whitehead to Dublin Connolly. Click http://smu.gs/1dY6ueo to view. Quote
thewanderer Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 Evening all, Two updates tonight. First is pictures of 073 passing Portarlington earlier today with the 1040 Claremorris - Heuston Weedspray Train. Plus 215 on the 1300 Heuston - Cork. Click http://smu.gs/1B27HeW to view. Also, last weekend I was in London and all the pictures from that have now been uploaded with some interesting photos of a 1940's themed Cocktail Bar in a disused Underground Station (as the story goes), plus much more. Click http://smu.gs/1QMNhIx to view. Quote
thewanderer Posted June 11, 2015 Author Posted June 11, 2015 Evening all, Today's pictures feature an Odyssey International private charter 5ICR set from Limerick to Heuston and 232 crossing the Bord na Mona railway with the 1300 Heuston - Cork. Click http://smu.gs/1IL86VI to view Quote
thewanderer Posted June 14, 2015 Author Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) Afternoon folks, Latest updates: Friday 12th June 2015: Images from Portlaoise, Heuston and Dublin City. Saturday 13th June 2015: Visit to Newbridge to see the up IWT liner plus various passenger services. Click http://smu.gs/1JRlZAt to view. Edited June 14, 2015 by thewanderer Quote
thewanderer Posted June 15, 2015 Author Posted June 15, 2015 A trip to Thurles on Sunday for the Kerry -v- Tipperary Munster Football Semi-Final with a few train pictures thrown in before and after the match. Click http://smu.gs/1JRlZAt to view. Quote
thewanderer Posted June 16, 2015 Author Posted June 16, 2015 Tuesday 16th June 2015: Pictures from Rosskelton, Roscrea and Clonkeen. Click the picture below to access. Quote
thewanderer Posted June 18, 2015 Author Posted June 18, 2015 Pictures from Killenard earlier this evening & two pictures from Barry Pickup at Gormanston with a EMU transfer from Drogheda to Fairview. Click http://smu.gs/1TyIhvj to view. Quote
thewanderer Posted June 19, 2015 Author Posted June 19, 2015 Some pictures of the RPSI / Steam Dreams "Emerald Isle Explorer" from Connolly to Galway at Portarlington earlier this morning, where a loco swap took place (85 off / 461 on). Click http://smu.gs/1LjIUqa to view. Quote
hurricanemk1c Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Good evening all, Just getting through a backlog of photos, but first yesterday's fun and games. 103 photos from a trip that included Heuston, Connolly, Balbriggan, Clonsilla, Maynooth, Pearse and Inchicore, with shots of the normal activity, 8208's first southbound run, 073 on the weedspray and more. Click on the photos or the link at the end for more All photos can be seen here - Photos from Portarlington and the above loco change will be available soon. Regards, Kieran Quote
Railer Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Great shots Hurricane, 8208 looks very well. I notice it's got it's EVN numbers and 209 even with the full livery now applied still has the old numbers. Also did you notice the mods to 8101 I was on about a while back. You can just about see the water run off system installed in your photos. Quote
hurricanemk1c Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 I can see it now Railer - didn't notice it at the time though! Thanks for the comment! More photo time! Photos from Portarlington yesterday for the Steam Dreams tour, as well as the normal flow of ICR's All photos can be seen here - Regards, Kieran Quote
thewanderer Posted June 22, 2015 Author Posted June 22, 2015 Morning all, Pictures from Day 4 of the RPSI / Steam Dreams "Emerald Isle Explorer" from Galway to Killarney. Click http://smu.gs/1TGJikV to view. Also general shots from the past few days. Includes Nenagh, Western Rail Corridor amongst others. Click http://smu.gs/1Le3ZRP to view. Quote
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