From the Catacombs

[jhb171achill]

And another

 

[DSERetc]

Sheep in 1937           Sometimes things don't change

 

 

 

Sheep  at Ballinderry and Belfast to Coleraine Train summer 1994

 

 

 

DSERetc

[jhb171achill]

2 hours ago, DSERetc said:

Sheep in 1937           Sometimes things don't change

 

 

 

Sheep  at Ballinderry and Belfast to Coleraine Train summer 1994

 

 

 

DSERetc

That’s when NIR’s track was beginning to resemble what my father encountered on the Lough Swilly in the upper shot!

[airfixfan]

The Lough Swilly track was in better condition than NIR track

[jhb171achill]

One of Fry's 4-wheeled LNWR coaches.

None of his English stuff is on display, due to space - but it is hoped to rectify this in due course.

The "makers plate", which is on most (but not all!) of his models reads "CLF 3.46", which means he made the model in March 1946, 75 years ago!

[jhb171achill]

Not sure if I posted these before; from Senior's stuff. The SLNCR's "Lough Erne" is shown both in SLNCR (unlined black) livery, and later lined UTA black.

The "Mogul" running wrong line is doing so because Senior had "possessed" the other track for relaying or something. I don't know for certain where it is, but the first carriage is GNR.

Edited September 22, 2021 by jhb171achill

[Galteemore]

Very nice. Note the classic SLNC nameplates of red lettering, and also red coupling rods and bosses - not often seen but just glimpsable here. The second view of 27 looks as if she’s near her withdrawal date. 

Edited September 22, 2021 by Galteemore

[jhb171achill]

30 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Very nice. Note the classic SLNC nameplates of red lettering, and also red coupling rods and bosses - not often seen but just glimpsable here. The second view of 27 looks as if she’s near her withdrawal date. 

Unfortunately I don't have dates... but, yes, you'd be right.

The red nameplates on the SLNCR only applied to some locos - others had black backgrounds. While I have no way to confirm it, Senior thought that at one stage one of them may have been with a background of blue or green!

[Lambeg man]

Not sure where you are getting your material from but that middle photo of 'UG' No. 47 sitting outside Adelaide Shed is credited to Pat Whitehouse in an photo book album of his stuff titled 'Steam on shed'. Or did he poach Senior's work? I would be interested to know. LM

[jhb171achill]

No idea, Steve - it was all in with the same stuff. I will attempt to delve. Looks familiar to me too.

[airfixfan]

7 hours ago, Lambeg man said:

Not sure where you are getting your material from but that middle photo of 'UG' No. 47 sitting outside Adelaide Shed is credited to Pat Whitehouse in an photo book album of his stuff titled 'Steam on shed'. Or did he poach Senior's work? I would be interested to know. LM

Well spotted Steve it is indeed the same photo of UG 47 at Adelaide

[jhb171achill]

5 hours ago, airfixfan said:

Well spotted Steve it is indeed the same photo of UG 47 at Adelaide

Then it's got mixed up with Senior's stuff! There's no chance of either copying from the other, as they didn't know each other.

 

 

[Lambeg man]

On 25/9/2021 at 12:39 PM, jhb171achill said:

Then it's got mixed up with Senior's stuff! There's no chance of either copying from the other, as they didn't know each other.

Hi JHB, thanks for resolving that. LM

On 25/9/2021 at 7:03 AM, airfixfan said:

Well spotted Steve it is indeed the same photo of UG 47 at Adelaide

Thank you for the compliment Airfixfan. LM

[DiveController]

On 22/9/2021 at 4:24 PM, jhb171achill said:

Is this Inchicore by any chance  and if so, is that the coaling tower before it was demolished?

 

 

[Galteemore]

It’s York Road, Belfast.

[DiveController]

On 28/9/2021 at 1:23 AM, Galteemore said:

It’s York Road, Belfast.

yea, it didn't look right but had to know

[jhb171achill]

Branch Line Heaven!

 

Some inspiration for operations on branch line termini…. this is from 1935.

I love the old rubber stamps on railway documents.

[jhb171achill]

Embankment collapse, Castlecaldwell, Co. Fermanagh, on the Bundoran branch in 1956.

(H C A Beaumont)

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Lisburn with Great Victoria Street - Portadown local, mid 1930s. Note coach which was once a steam railmotor.

(H C A Beaumont)

Edited November 17, 2021 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

A few more at complete random from jhbSenior's stuff.

First, a few in Brexitstan. He has quite a lot of BR material as a result of his annual attendance at the Annual General Meeting of the Permanent Way Institution, of which he was a member from 1939 until he passed away in 2014, by which time he was by far the oldest Irish member.

Ennnnyway; here we go. I have absolutely no idea where any of these are, sorry! But they are all early to mid 1960s, obviously. I think the latest couple are 1967.

 

 

 

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........and back to familiar lands where things run on a proper gauge. Three liveries in this one.

Edited January 3, 2022 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

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With recent talk about containers, this may be of interest.

[jhb171achill]

One more for tonight. Grey bubbles and another railcar set with three liveries. The goods train is near Meigh and the railcar set (ex-GNR) is at (I think) Macmine Junction. Tin van in tow for parcel traffic, as was often the case then. Dates, again, are not precise; I think the goods is c.1967 and the railcar is c.1962.   (Both H C A Beaumont)

 

Edited January 3, 2022 by jhb171achill

[murphaph]

The railcar is the business. Looks almost German with the three light Spitzensignal. 

[StevieB]

The railcar photo is quite a delight. The two railcars are from the 700 and 900 series  but what is the intermediate coach?

Stephen

[hexagon789]

9 minutes ago, StevieB said:

The railcar photo is quite a delight. The two railcars are from the 700 and 900 series  but what is the intermediate coach?

Stephen

Some form of catering vehicle?

10 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

A few more at complete random from jhbSenior's stuff.

First, a few in Brexitstan. He has quite a lot of BR material as a result of his annual attendance at the Annual General Meeting of the Permanent Way Institution, of which he was a member from 1939 until he passed away in 2014, by which time he was by far the oldest Irish member.

Ennnnyway; here we go. I have absolutely no idea where any of these are, sorry! But they are all early to mid 1960s, obviously. I think the latest couple are 1967.

 

 

 

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........and back to familiar lands where things run on a proper gauge. Three liveries in this one.

The wee railbus is one of the Scottish Region 'Wickham' cars, these were used on a variety of lightly used rural branches, but one of the best known was the Gleneagles-Creiff-Comrie line. Crieff was actually a huge junction station but by the railcar era it had only the 6 railcar services each way through it despite having four mainline length platforms and 5 through roads.

I think that may be Crieff in your picture, the canopies are right but I can't really make out any surrounding detail. 

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, hexagon789 said:

 

I think that may be Crieff in your picture, the canopies are right but I can't really make out any surrounding detail. 

That makes sense. He was in Scotland a couple of times. He went off chasing Black 5s, as he remembered them being built when he worked 2 years in England. 

Among names I recall him mentioning as having been to, were Alloa, Brechin, Oban, Mallaig & Kyle.

 

[hexagon789]

58 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

That makes sense. He was in Scotland a couple of times. He went off chasing Black 5s, as he remembered them being built when he worked 2 years in England. 

Among names I recall him mentioning as having been to, were Alloa, Brechin, Oban, Mallaig & Kyle.

 

Could be Alloa then - the Wickham cars saw use earliest on the Stirling-Alloa-Dollar service, another lightly used rural line.

Alloa being yet another large station with a service greatly lower in proportion than the amount of track provided, though there was a reasonably frequent Stirling-Alloa shuttle from memory until the line closed and of course it's now been re-opened for 10 years and served by a regular hourly electric service from Glasgow! 

Edited January 3, 2022 by hexagon789

[Irishswissernie]

A quick look John as I'm taking a break from building 4mm scale windows. Princess Alice is at Glasgow, St Enoch. 45469 Stirling, 64602 Dundee Tay Bridge. The railbus isn't at Crieff as that station only had 2 long platform faces but with 3 tracks between them, doesn't look like Alloa or Gleneagles either. I will have a proper look tonight as there is nowt on TV.

EDIT 2 more 34092 Yeovil Junction. 48287 Chester.

Edited January 3, 2022 by Irishswissernie

[Irishswissernie]

Railbus is at Aviemore,it would have been working a Speyside service to Craigellachie and Elgin.  

[Irishswissernie]

92213 is at Gloucester Central on iron ore from the midlands to South Wales , the scrapyard is Barry. the big terminus with Green EMU 4279 Waterloo. 

[jhb171achill]

Superb info, Ernie - I'll ping you privately about some of his other stuff. There's a lot of Swiss / Austrian in the 1930s too.

Now, what does anyone make of this. Also from a different part of the "Catacombs", amongst boxes and boxes of old traffic circulars, this one from 1925 has some interesting annotations - the circular originated in the Inchicore Drawing Office, not any area where timetables would be created or amended!

I don't recognise the writing; it is not that of jhbSeniorx2.

[jhb171achill]

Ernie - PM sent.

 

[jhb171achill]

The day that all the exhibits from Belfast Transport Museum were moved to Cultra was an exceptionally dark, dull day with frequent rain showers. Photographic conditions were truly awful.

Senior managed to get one decent shot of the GNR tank loco - a handsome little beast if ever there was one. It shows the GNR loco livery up perfectly, and far better than is possible now.

[GSR 800]

Just now, jhb171achill said:

The day that all the exhibits from Belfast Transport Museum were moved to Cultra was an exceptionally dark, dull day with frequent rain showers. Photographic conditions were truly awful.

Senior managed to get one decent shot of the GNR tank loco - a handsome little beast if ever there was one. It shows the GNR loco livery up perfectly, and far better than is possible now.

A significant number of photos from the move, including of Maedb, have recently been posted on the IRRS flickr page

[jhb171achill]

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And for comparison, at Dundalk in the 1970s:

What IS it about preserved steam engines on plinths, ALL around the WORLD, that have people running to paint connecting rods WHITE!!!!

1 minute ago, GSR 800 said:

A significant number of photos from the move, including of Maedb, have recently been posted on the IRRS flickr page

Yes, and I was there myself, though I generally took print film, not slides. I didn't get one decent shot, though I was also preoccupied trying to supervise Junior who was only about 7............. No sooner would you reach for your camera than the rain came on again. Drove to Adelaide and back with headlights on, it was that dark!

Note the catcher on the cabside; NCC land, some time between 1947 and early 50s.

[Patrick Davey]

4 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

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And for comparison, at Dundalk in the 1970s:

What IS it about preserved steam engines on plinths, ALL around the WORLD, that have people running to paint connecting rods WHITE!!!!

I think even Hornby did white wheels at one stage.....