jhb171achill Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 Original contract to built the Galway to Clifden line, plus a notice for replacement bus services. Now that "Rails Through North Kerry" is done and dust, guess what I'm working on now.... And another thing I found..... Quote
Broithe Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 (edited) How did one of them end up the right way up? Edited January 16, 2016 by Broithe Quote
Horsetan Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 I can see this photographic in-joke running into the next century.... Quote
RedRich Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 Relax Rich and Noel.[ATTACH=CONFIG]22257[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]22258[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]22259[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]22260[/ATTACH] It's OK I'm perfectly relaxed, nice of you to think of me. Rich, Quote
Mayner Posted January 17, 2016 Posted January 17, 2016 My father lived near the Salmon Weir bridge in Galway just before the Clifden line closed, he had little interest in railway but often spoke about a girl that often walked the top of the steelwork of the Corrib Viaduct. http://www.realizedvision.com/railways.php The GSR offered the viaduct to the city or county for a £5, but the local authorities were not prepared to take on the liabilities and the viaduct was dismantled. Quote
jhb171achill Posted January 20, 2016 Author Posted January 20, 2016 That wouldn't be for the faint hearted, Mayner.... can you imagine the health and safety police nowadays, if the driver of the Galway to Clifden ICR reported seeing such a thing! Quote
Mayner Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 That wouldn't be for the faint hearted, Mayner.... can you imagine the health and safety police nowadays, if the driver of the Galway to Clifden ICR reported seeing such a thing! http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/campbelllive/rail-bridge-jumpers-want-safer-solution-2015020319#axzz3xxD0Tyd8 Even in Ireland the railway has no legal duty to trespassers, but families, local politicians and coroner would be calling for blood if anything happened. Quote
roxyguy Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Speaking of clifden, some pictures I took recently of the 6 wheel coach there. There is a hole in the side, so got some pics of the inside. Does the lever to the right imply that it was a break coach. I have it on good authority that the coach came up from cork when there were renovating the station house hotel. Quote
jhb171achill Posted January 22, 2016 Author Posted January 22, 2016 The compartments were removed and the brake added when it was in departmental use. It was a give compartment third in traffic, no brake. Similar to the ones at Whitehead and Downpatrick. Yes, it was brought there by John Sweeney, owner of hotel. Quote
roxyguy Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 What a shame they never did anything with it. The caretaker there told me that he suspected the wagon had been in use in permanent way maintenance or something similiar towards the end of its life. Quote
jhb171achill Posted January 22, 2016 Author Posted January 22, 2016 It was. That's why the compartments and seats were removed, and the brake wheel installed. Quite a few old six wheelers (most, if not all MGWR) were great in this way. No. 62, latterly in the Cork breakdown train was bout from CIE by yours truly and presented to the RPSI - that's the one at Whitehead. Best IR£60 I ever spent! A model of it would nowadays cost double that, I'm sure. Quote
roxyguy Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 It was. That's why the compartments and seats were removed, and the brake wheel installed. Quite a few old six wheelers (most, if not all MGWR) were great in this way. No. 62, latterly in the Cork breakdown train was bout from CIE by yours truly and presented to the RPSI - that's the one at Whitehead. Best IR£60 I ever spent! A model of it would nowadays cost double that, I'm sure. You bought one for €60?? When was that?? Quote
jhb171achill Posted January 22, 2016 Author Posted January 22, 2016 Incidentally, if you look at that photo, you'll see at the far end of the coach the mid brown (lower) and cream (upper) which the GSR and CIE painted inside wooden-boarded third class coaches. Not unlike the inside of cabs of locos painted green. Off thread I know, but the insides of the cabs of grey locos were - guess what - plain grey - or occasionally brown, no upper cream bit. Quote
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