60's and 70's CIE Photos.

[patrick]

sutherland.davenportstation.org.uk/ws-189.html Edited September 15, 2017 by patrick

[Noel]

sutherland.davenportstation.org.uk/ws-189.html steverabone.com/RailwayPhotographers/unknown_irish_photographers.htm

 

Pure Gold. The era of railway trains. Thanks Patrick for posting that excellent link.

[patrick]

I just noticed I posted this link before a few years ago! I tried to post another link to some 60's and 70's photos which I have bookmarked but the link no longer works.

[craven1508]

my word, the golden era! the staggering black and tan livery was made for them mark 2,s.

[Garfield]

my word, the golden era! the staggering black and tan livery was made for them mark 2,s.

 

Well, technically the Supertrain livery was.

 

Great photos!

[Noel]

What is interesting is how much goods traffic CIE carried in the 60s and even in the early 70s with mixed rakes of two axle goods wagons, and how every small station handled goods traffic. The photos of Galway and Killarney goods yards were interesting given they were taken in 1975 when container traffic had started but where still handling pick up goods wagons. I remember mid 70s seeing passing goods trains still stopping at intermediate stations to drop off one or two wagons and pick them up again on the way back to Dublin. Lots of shunting operations, lots of GM notching sounds wafting across the countryside. I nearly feel off my perch when I saw the photo above of two B&T 121s passing each other on the loop in Carrickonshannon.

[patrick]

steverabone.com/RailwayPhotographs/unknown_irish_photographers.htm Some great late 60's scenes. Edited September 15, 2017 by patrick

[StevieB]

A lovely collection of photos that evoke memories of when we were young, even though I have no firsthand experience of Irish railways then, or now for that matter. This has made me realise that my plans to reproduce trains in the 70s, 80s and 90s are overambitious, so my collection of IR/IE 071's, 141/181/s, 201's and Cravens is open to offers so that I can concentrate on the 70's when the old order was coming to an end and the new was just beginning.

 

Stephen