Tara Junction.

[ttc0169]

8 hours ago, Noel said:

Love the signal. Presume the LED is under the baseboard with fibre optic running up the post.

Pre wired LED in the lamp of the signal post  

[Noel]

11 minutes ago, ttc0169 said:

Pre wired LED in the lamp of the signal post  

Thanks. I've not yet been able to find LEDs small enough, so was going to try a 3mm one under the baseboard and fibre optic it up to the lamp house

[JasonB]

Brilliant stuff, Noel. Loving the 121/141 combo working the Ballast train.  

[ttc0169]

IR branded Plasser & Theurer tamper no’ 750 is seen here being refuelled at the fuelling point during overnight work through the station area at Tara junction. 
 

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Lovely atmosphere

[bufferstop]

In all my time on the railway, I have never heard a tamper, described as a tamper. It's always a "packer".

Would you agree ttc0169?

"Btw, yellow paint is in situ"

[ttc0169]

8 hours ago, bufferstop said:

In all my time on the railway, I have never heard a tamper, described as a tamper. It's always a "packer".

Would you agree ttc0169?

"Btw, yellow paint is in situ"

Of course…!!!

[Patrick Davey]

Fabulous shed scene in particular, amongst many other fabulous scenes!

[ttc0169]

On the eve on what promises to be a great tour for the RPSI-the first 201 locomotive to work to Sligo in passenger service,we see locomotive 216 work the empty RPSI Cravens set through Tara junction on driver training runs. 

Let’s hope we pass the Sligo-Northwall  001 hauled BELL liner and the Mullingar-Connolly Cravens passenger hauled by 177+129

Retro 073 passes with the empty timber to Ballina. 
 

 

[JasonB]

Good stuff, Noel. Looking forward to this tomorrow. I'm sure it will be a cracking day out, as always. 

[ttc0169]

9 hours ago, JasonB said:

Good stuff, Noel. Looking forward to this tomorrow. I'm sure it will be a cracking day out, as always. 

Thanks Jason

[ttc0169]

The 22:20 Sligo-Northwall oil tank liner hauled by 054 is seen here at Tara junction station awaiting a crew change. 
 

[JasonB]

8 hours ago, ttc0169 said:

The 22:20 Sligo-Northwall oil tank liner hauled by 054 is seen here at Tara junction station awaiting a crew change. 

Those wagons have always been a favourite of mine. I've been contemplating starting on a rake for a while now, using the usual donors.  But then I keep telling myself, maybe a certain manufacture will eventually release an oil - molasses wagon. 

[ttc0169]

12 hours ago, JasonB said:

Those wagons have always been a favourite of mine. I've been contemplating starting on a rake for a while now, using the usual donors.  But then I keep telling myself, maybe a certain manufacture will eventually release an oil - molasses wagon. 

Hello IRM…..is their anyone out there….

@Warbonnet

[murphaph]

13 hours ago, JasonB said:

Those wagons have always been a favourite of mine. I've been contemplating starting on a rake for a while now, using the usual donors.  But then I keep telling myself, maybe a certain manufacture will eventually release an oil - molasses wagon. 

Be amazed if they don't. Isn't the weedspray tank the same?

[ttc0169]

2 hours ago, murphaph said:

Be amazed if they don't. Isn't the weedspray tank the same?

Not that I’m aware of 

[murphaph]

22 minutes ago, ttc0169 said:

Not that I’m aware of 

I must be confusing it with something else. Cheers!

[DJ Dangerous]

1 hour ago, ttc0169 said:

Not that I’m aware of 

Does the weedspray tank double up for anything other than weedspray / Sperry?

[ttc0169]

14 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Does the weedspray tank double up for anything other than weedspray / Sperry?

No DJ, former weedspray tanks only.

[RedRich]

19 hours ago, ttc0169 said:

Hello IRM…..is their anyone out there….

@Warbonnet

Just nod if you can hear me.

If the junction was exhibited it would really draw the crowds  as the action taking place is what a large percentage of visitors would want to look at 

Super stuff as usual Noel.

[ttc0169]

18 hours ago, RedRich said:

Just nod if you can hear me.

If the junction was exhibited it would really draw the crowds  as the action taking place is what a large percentage of visitors would want to look at 

Super stuff as usual Noel.

Cheers and thanks Rich

[ttc0169]

One from a few weeks ago,a variety of trains in operation on Tara junction. 

[DJ Dangerous]

Love it!

Thank Crunchie it's Friday.

Your lighting is fabulous.

I'm only now noticing the embankment that's kind of hidden in most shots. Maybe an upside-down selfie stick would allow you film the layout from the opposite side? Never used one before myself so not sure if it would actually work.

[JasonB]

Brilliant stuff. 054 looks great with the oil wagons. 

[ttc0169]

18 minutes ago, JasonB said:

Brilliant stuff. 054 looks great with the oil wagons. 

Cheers and thanks Jason-the oil tanks are a favourite of mine,I worked the real things to and from Claremorris in days long gone now from the railway

[jhb171achill]

Absolutely outstanding, Noel. There is always SO much happening. Like wandering about Kingsbridge in the early 1970s, as I did, oblivious to the very few signs suggesting not to walk on tracks and so on..... I wandered, camera in hand, all rounmd the goods yard where the IRRS building is, across the tracks to the valeting plant, where I watched an "E" shunting carriages out of No. 2, and saw my first sighting of a brand-new 071 arriving from Waterford. Then, I wandered on over the tracks to the military platform (and here comes the "E" again), and back over to the end of what's now platform 5; another pic of a tin van parked there, and off I went. Nobody came near me!

Edited May 17, 2023 by jhb171achill

[ttc0169]

Two views from the junction this evening-from the ground up-and from the top down…!!!!

 

[MOGUL]

On 20/5/2023 at 12:07 AM, ttc0169 said:

Two views from the junction this evening-from the ground up-and from the top down…!!!!

 

The chippy looks well Noel, is it the airfix kit with after market decals? 

[Georgeconna]

Probably this one:

Aviation 72 AV7226017 1/72 DHC1 CHIPMUNK IRISH AIR CORPS 168 | eBay

[DJ Dangerous]

2 hours ago, Georgeconna said:

Probably this one:

Aviation 72 AV7226017 1/72 DHC1 CHIPMUNK IRISH AIR CORPS 168 | eBay

Ah man. I was looking for a chipper somewhere on the platform, selling all kinds of deep-fried goodness.

[Broithe]

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Ah man. I was looking for a chipper somewhere on the platform, selling all kinds of deep-fried goodness.

There was a cheap one on a couple of weeks ago, but it was a bit battered.

[DJ Dangerous]

9 minutes ago, Broithe said:

There was a cheap one on a couple of weeks ago, but it was a bit battered.

This is the end of Tara Junction, enter three months of chipper puns. Hope TTC doesn't get salty over it.

[ttc0169]

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the Supertrain to service on Irish railways back in 1973,

Pioneer locomotive 001 is seen here working the 17:30 Cork-Dublin Heuston through Tara junction as B188+B125 work a laden fertiliser train  

 

[DJ Dangerous]

Yaaaaaaaayyyy, it's Friday!!!

[DJ Dangerous]

A Friday night with no TJ update? Something is off with the universe today.