Horsetan Posted October 10 Posted October 10 27 minutes ago, Tullygrainey said: I D spair of you lot E's not the Messiah! 2
leslie10646 Posted October 11 Posted October 11 22 hours ago, jhb171achill said: The morning local, ten years apart; 1960 and 1970. Todd Andrews has retired now, but strangely he overlooked the Castletown West to Dugort Harbour branch, despite it only seeing twenty or so passengers per day, except fair days. Nothing, of course, to do with who the local TD is…… Rhubarb! I'd sack the local shed master for turning out locomotives in such a filthy state. The crews obviously didn't view their locos as the Spoil Train men did in the late 1960s, when they often cleaned another bit of the engine between turns ..... Admonition over, @jhb171achill it shows it the way it (unhappily) was! 2
jhb171achill Posted October 11 Author Posted October 11 2 hours ago, leslie10646 said: Rhubarb! I'd sack the local shed master for turning out locomotives in such a filthy state. The crews obviously didn't view their locos as the Spoil Train men did in the late 1960s, when they often cleaned another bit of the engine between turns ..... Admonition over, @jhb171achill it shows it the way it (unhappily) was! Exactly! Warts’n’all!
derek Posted October 11 Posted October 11 17 hours ago, jhb171achill said: G whizz, what a thread! F'n marvellous if you ask me. Yes we are going there 1 1
DJ Dangerous Posted October 12 Posted October 12 17 hours ago, derek said: F'n marvellous if you ask me. Yes we are going there H-Bomb dropped on the puns yesterday! 1 3
jhb171achill Posted October 12 Author Posted October 12 The Sweeney brothers watch the afternoon mixed amble across Carrowmore Bog one winter’s afternoon. Looks like snow in the sky… ”Y’know, Pat, the times I’ve sat here and watched that train go by, an’ not a blade of grass round the place. I wish yer man would stop talkin’ about scenery, and get it DONE!” 6 5
jhb171achill Posted November 5 Author Posted November 5 “Stop! Stop!” ”It’s OK, he’s stopping! CALM yourself! He’s STOPPING! But you’ll have to climb up and open the door…” ”Sure ye know he wasn’t going to leave you behind, ya eejit….” 4 2
jhb171achill Posted November 5 Author Posted November 5 (edited) “I dunno about that, Tommy. There’s going to be work on the Bandon till they’ve lifted it all - that’ll be a couple o’years anyway, and they’d probably put him out to grass on the shunt in Glanmire Road after that. Sure he’ll be retiring in ‘66, I think, he joined the Bandon in 1917, he told me…. “ “We’d better go inside, that’s a bad oul sky coming in…” Edited November 5 by jhb171achill 10
jhb171achill Posted November 5 Author Posted November 5 (edited) “Yeah, but you owed me seven shillings from Friday!” ”Oh - I forgot about that, yeah. OK, then all you owe me is a shilling…” ”Jaysus, lads, ye play cards, ye remember the money, like! It’s all about the money!” ”I gotta go now, need to ring Jimmy. We can’t go till he brings his stuff for the van…” ”Ye better not let PJ find out ye are holdin’ the train for that eejit….” Edited November 5 by jhb171achill 9
jhb171achill Posted November 9 Author Posted November 9 Same loco spotted shunting at Dugort Harbour in summer 1968 and autumn 1970…. 5
jhb171achill Posted Thursday at 01:21 Author Posted Thursday at 01:21 The connection from the down 09:05 Kingsbridge to Tralee arrives one summer afternoon in 1964 on time at Dugort Harbour. 15
jhb171achill Posted yesterday at 00:09 Author Posted yesterday at 00:09 (edited) 472 class No. 472 shunts the stock for the following day’s fair special, Dugort Harbour, 20th July 1961. Edited yesterday at 00:11 by jhb171achill 7
jhb171achill Posted yesterday at 00:18 Author Posted yesterday at 00:18 Life in 1961….. “Here’s one for ye. A rabbit walks into a bar an’ asks for a pint’o’porter….” ”Wait, is that Maggie’s damn sheep again!” ”Ah, I’ll tell ye that one later. Best get them chased back into the field….” ”I’ll go an’ get Tom Foley to block up that hole again…when’s the light engine coming in?” 11
jhb171achill Posted 22 hours ago Author Posted 22 hours ago It’s 1963 now. Same connection from the 09:05 ex-Kingsbridge, this time with a spluttery “C”; we’ve 231 today, because C207 died in Killarney yesterday, and C211 isn’t back from Inchicore yet… 11 1
DJ Dangerous Posted 14 hours ago Posted 14 hours ago On 13/11/2025 at 1:21 AM, jhb171achill said: The connection from the down 09:05 Kingsbridge to Tralee arrives one summer afternoon in 1964 on time at Dugort Harbour. What a shot! 1 1
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