Dugort Harbour

[jhb171achill]

Derek

Got the following info from Kevan.

"I started of with black acrylic primer. Went over with grey washes then dry brushed the rest. Grey primer was used. And then weathered

Ballast was a bag of builders sand. I used it on the curve. The sunken look is achieved with daz clay between the sleepers...."

 

[derek]

Thanks for that

 

[jhb171achill]

20.12.1959

“Did ye ever think we’d see nineteen sixty…. eleven days an’ it’s new year, new decade…..”

”Well, I never thought they’d send brand new diesels down HERE….an’ my oul steed, 138, away for scrap and nothing wrong with her but that oul right-hand injector!”

”Seems like no time from me startin’ as a boy porter in Kanturk in 1923….”

”I’m a bit ahead of ye….. I’ll have forty five years service in three years time….”

”Where did you start?”

”Cleaner, Kenmare, 1914. Drivin’ Tralee to Cork since I done me leg in last two summers ago”.

”Do ye need a goose for the Christmas dinner? PJ’s slaughtered two fresh yesterday….”

 

Happy Christmas to all here from Dugort Harbour, 20th December 1959…

Edited December 20, 2022 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

August 1960

Ex-CBSCR No. 472, the pilot engine at Castletown West, is called upon to shunt at Dugort Harbour, following the failure of Crossley C202.

"Yer man's doing well on the firing now - just got passed out"

      "Sure what'll he do when the steam's all gone? It's supposed to be gone in a couple of years. And THAT yoke will fail its next boiler test, I can tell ye..."

"Jaysus, you're an awful oul doom merchant.... pay no attention - sure they're always on about all that stuff"

Edited January 8, 2023 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

On a dull evening in 1959, the 5.30 to the junction ambles across Carrowmore Bog towards Castletown West....

[jhb171achill]

Earlier in the day, A30 passes the same spot with the 12:30 down train to Dugort Harbour

 

[jhb171achill]

But the following day.........

"What's happened A30? Thought she was on until Wednesday?"

"Broken fuel pipe on the goods last night. She's at Headford Junction".....

 

[jhb171achill]

Also in 1959, on another day A42 has the road for the leisurely crawl up to Castletown West. The branch has an overall 25mph limit, but few drivers would be happy exceeding 15 or 20, especially in an "A" class......

 

[jhb171achill]

"If PJ sees this lot there'll be war - this was all meant to be loaded on the mixed this morning"

       "Well, there was no sign of Tommy to load it this morning, an' it's not my job"

"That's coz he was in O'Donoghue's till five in the morning - where d'ye think all them empty barrels came from!"

       "Some oul session it was, to be fair.....yer man's sister is a great oul ballad singer...."

"Were YOU there too? I didn't see ye"

       "Yeah, but I'm on the late today. I was down the back with the O'Shea lads. Did me bit emptyin' those kegs....."

 

[jhb171achill]

It’s not often we get very early colour shots from GSR days; but here in 1943, ex-CBSCR 472 leads the midday mixed into Dugort Harbour.

More of the carriage, currently being trialled, in due course!

[Galteemore]

Nice scene - looks well. Look forward to hearing more about the carriage. Have the loco crew jumped off anticipating a crash ? 

Edited February 16, 2023 by Galteemore

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Galteemore said:

Nice scene - looks well. Look forward to hearing more about the carriage. Have the loco crew jumped off anticipating a crash ? 

They've hidden the other side, as they are camera-shy.

[jhb171achill]

I'll put up a post about this coach, under "DSER 6 Wheeler" on the section about "Irish Railway Models" rather than Dugort Harbour, as such.

[jhb171achill]

On a bitterly cold morning, with a scattering of snow and a very heavy frost, B141 crosses Carrowmore Bog with the 07:35 empty stock for the morning branch train from Dugort Harbour in January 1965….. Looks like there’s more snow in the sky….

Edited February 22, 2023 by jhb171achill

[David Holman]

Very atmospheric  - makes me want to turn the heating up!

[jhb171achill]

15 minutes ago, David Holman said:

Very atmospheric  - makes me want to turn the heating up!

Me too!

[jhb171achill]

“…..Ah, there’s the afternoon train…. bit late, isn’t he? I thought he was due at the harbour about half an hour ago?”

“Well, yer man with the turf for us is worse - we’ve been waitin’ HERE for that time…..”

Edited March 20, 2023 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

A55 has a burst fuel pipe one day in winter 1963; A12 to the rescue. Not often you see two “A”s out on Carrowmore Bog…..

[jhb171achill]

It’s spring 1966, and the afternoon train to Tralee awaits departure at Castletown West…..

[jhb171achill]

Lazy day in 1966; B165 shunts at Dugort Harbour while the old crew car, an ancient 6-wheeler with the centre axle removed and a pair of wagon doors fitted, reposes in the disused loco shed road. It’s been there since the lifting trains on the Valentia line finished.

Edited March 20, 2023 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

In 1961, you’ve some people with tried-and-tested black’n’white photography, some with colour.

Three views by different photographers of a mid-day local goods extra leaving Dugort Harbour for Castletown, one of the last regular steam rosters in the area. Within a year, a “C” would take over.

[Dempsey]

Fantastic scenes JB

[JasonB]

Superb, as always.  

[scahalane]

Very nicely composed and photographed as always.

[jhb171achill]

Track renewal is under way; it will turn out to be the last. It’s May 1960. 

The local train has A42 today, as it slows across the repaired

 

 

track as it enters Castletown West.

It shows the excellent slow running of the IRM “A” class.

 

 

[jhb171achill]

Ah! It's that oul crew van again. Since they started lifting several local lines in the area in the late 1950s, this van and its accompanying rail wagon has often ended up stabled in the old loco shed road at Dugort Harbour, as that's where they loaded lifted rails onto a ship heading for a scrap dealer in Liverpool. Spotted through the hedge from a moving Ford Popular in 1958.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 20, 2023 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

The oul fella was out cutting turf one day in 1957, and caught a picture of the afternoon train on his old box camera.

Driving home later, he noticed a Woolwich cold in the cattle siding at Castletown. It had blown a couple of tubes, according to the signalman, and had been sitting there a week. Yer man says it’ll be scrapped now.

[Westcorkrailway]

3 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

In 1961, you’ve some people with tried-and-tested black’n’white photography, some with colour.

Three views by different photographers of a mid-day local goods extra leaving Dugort Harbour for Castletown, one of the last regular steam rosters in the area. Within a year, a “C” would take over.

The fact 472 made it to 1961 in dugort cannon is quite interesting. It has been involved in the kinsale Crash of 1915 of which there were 2 fatalities so it could be a “cursed” engine 

[jhb171achill]

28 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

The fact 472 made it to 1961 in dugort cannon is quite interesting. It has been involved in the kinsale Crash of 1915 of which there were 2 fatalities so it could be a “cursed” engine 

Indeed! Well, it's "alternative" history is that after withdrawal from the Wisht Carrk-boy system in the early 1940s, it was sent to the remote West Kerry area where it was used on the Castletown West - Dugort Harbour section, a remote outpost of some 5 miles long. Later, it was retained at Castletown itself and lasted almost until the end of steam, the last CBSCR loco in traffic, as the resident shunter and spare loco.

[jhb171achill]

“Jimmy, I see you - get outta that bush right now. Judge won’t be so lenient on ye this time. Not after robbin’ Guinness barrels TWICE as well as all that oul business you caused two weeks ago….”

—-

“…..no, that won’t work either. It’s FAR too heavy for us to move. We’ll need Dan, PJ and yer man as well as us….”

Edited March 21, 2023 by jhb171achill

[Patrick Davey]

Cracking scenes JB!  The track approaching the disused turntable looks fantastic in particular!

[jhb171achill]

22 minutes ago, Patrick Davey said:

Cracking scenes JB!  The track approaching the disused turntable looks fantastic in particular!

That was the work of the great Kevan Macintosh!

[Patrick Davey]

Mighty work indeed.  Would love to recreate the 'bleached out' sleeper look for my next project.

Looks like a combination of light brown/beige shades, nicely matched by the rusted rails.  Great stuff!

Edited March 25, 2023 by Patrick Davey

[jhb171achill]

6 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

Mighty work indeed.  Would love to recreate the 'bleached out' sleeper look for my next project.

Looks like a combination of light brown/beige shades, nicely matched by the rusted rails.  Great stuff!

He told me that he dry-brushed a light grey colour over them after painting the rails brown.

[Patrick Davey]

17 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

He told me that he dry-brushed a light grey colour over them after painting the rails brown.

Much appreciated JB, noted!