More IRRS Flickr gems

[Galteemore]

Fantastic new photos on the site from the Clements collection. Includes lots of SLNC photos, @Irishswissernie! 
Some very rare views, including 1928 photos of locos in old livery. Lots of other stuff of general interest -including narrow gauge - I even think there’s Cork and Muskerry in there too! 

[jhb171achill]

Which ones........where......

[Galteemore]

Log on to IRRS Flickr site and select Clements album. It’s about page 16. It’s the SLNC ones I’m talking about JHB but there’s quite a few GN and GS locos in 1920s garb.

Edited December 20, 2020 by Galteemore

[DiveController]

Anyone know what this is at York Road, NCC 3099?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/50736845218/in/photostream/

 

[Galteemore]

According to the McMahon Riley album, a generator van used for heating with diesel 28, which presumably lacked the onboard resources for train heating when working passenger turns. 

Edited December 20, 2020 by Galteemore

[DiveController]

Aaah! I thought it looks like a (very) short generator van. Thanks 

[Noel]

3 hours ago, Galteemore said:

According to the McMahon Riley album, a generator van used for heating with diesel 28, which presumably lacked the onboard resources for train heating when working passenger turns. 

Looks a perfect partner for B113

[Mayner]

3 hours ago, Noel said:

Looks a perfect partner for B113

1100 & 1101 later B113 & 114 were built with oil fired steam heating boilers similar to British Railways diesels.

The boilers were removed at some stage after the "Tin Vans" were introduced in the mid 1950s.

The UTA heating van looks like a shortened version of the self-propelled armored trollies built by the NCC during WWII.

The trollies were  disguised as bulk cement wagons and fitted with a Leyland engine, gearbox and transmission and were intended to patrol the NCC lines to detect sabotage.

[Galteemore]

Exactly Mayner, that’s what I thought it was at first, remembering an old Five Foot Three article. It does look rather excessively military. Given postwar shortages, wouldn’t surprise me at all if some of the platework off that wagon was repurposed.

Edited December 21, 2020 by Galteemore

[h gricer]

On 20/12/2020 at 6:35 PM, Galteemore said:

Fantastic new photos on the site from the Clements collection. Includes lots of SLNC photos, @Irishswissernie! 
Some very rare views, including 1928 photos of locos in old livery. Lots of other stuff of general interest -including narrow gauge - I even think there’s Cork and Muskerry in there too! 

Many thanks for posting the link, I spent about 2 hours this afternoon browsing through Clements photos and it's just incredible stuff, so much variety from wagons, coaches and all types of rolling stock, I thought we were spoiled by the George Mahon collection, Clements is equally outstanding, and his favorite company the Midland is well covered, photos taken at Broadstone in 1926, nearly one hundred years ago, it's just fantastic these photos are available now online particularly in the present times, to think the IRRS has existed since 1946 and it's only in the last 10 years since the present Photographic Archivist came into the position the photos are now digitized to a high quality and now available online, it must be very tedious work in all that scanning but you can see it in the results, such high quality and detail, hard to believe some of the photos nearly one hundred years old, rare and superb stuff, excellent.

Regards

hg

[jhb171achill]

Clements loved the Midland! I had several long conversations with him about it right up until a few months before he died. He was, as one would expect, probably the greatest authority on this system ever to have lived.

His encyclopaedic knowledge of Midland (and other) engines lives on, through the work of Michael McMahon and Jeremy (unrelated) Clements in their GSR "bible".  

I cannot open this link above - mentioned in first few posts. Can anyone copy the pic here?

"Anyone know what this is at York Road, NCC 3099?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/50736845218/in/photostream/"

[Galteemore]

Sorry JHB - can’t do that, much as I’d like to, due to IRRS access conditions. It’s a generator van, also pictured in the recent RC Riley album....

[jhb171achill]

Ah! THAT thing.

I cannot be certain on this, but i believe that at one stage anyway it was used for providing power to PW and maintenance gangs who were out'n'about.

[Lambeg man]

2 hours ago, h gricer said:

Clements is equally outstanding, and his favorite company the Midland is well covered, photos taken at Broadstone in 1926, nearly one hundred years ago, it's just fantastic these photos are available now online particularly in the present times, to think the IRRS has existed since 1946 and it's only in the last 10 years since the present Photographic Archivist came into the position the photos are now digitized to a high quality and now available online, it must be very tedious work in all that scanning but you can see it in the results, such high quality and detail, hard to believe some of the photos nearly one hundred years old, rare and superb stuff, excellent.

May I echo the above statement. Ciarán Cooney has done wonders with the material that would have otherwise sat in the vaults in Dublin. One of my most memorable IRRS London meetings was when Ciarán gave a presentation of IRRS photo's and finished with a demonstration of old damaged colour photographs and the results that he had "repaired". They end results were nothing sort of AMAZING! A very talented guy to whom many of us should be very grateful.  

[Patrick Davey]

8 minutes ago, Lambeg man said:

May I echo the above statement. Ciarán Cooney has done wonders with the material that would have otherwise sat in the vaults in Dublin. One of my most memorable IRRS London meetings was when Ciarán gave a presentation of IRRS photo's and finished with a demonstration of old damaged colour photographs and the results that he had "repaired". They end results were nothing sort of AMAZING! A very talented guy to whom many of us should be very grateful.  

Very true - and Ciarán's own 'Eiretrains' website is definitely well worth a look: http://eiretrains.com

[airfixfan]

Can I also thank Ciaran for his fantastic work and know from personal experience from writing articles and researching unidentified photos etc just how much time and patience this all requires. Will enjoy going through the latest archive in detail over the next few days.

[Galteemore]

As a teenager, I spent hours going through my dad’s collection of images, and thought I had seen pretty much what was out there, SLNC wise. In those days you bought slides and photos off very basic, unillustrated, catalogue descriptions, and you picked out what looked like the best. But what delightful and convenient access we have right now. These are halcyon days for researchers, with so much stuff available. Many thanks to Ciaran and of course our own Ernie ! If you’re not an IRRS member, this archive alone is worth the sub cost. 

Edited December 23, 2020 by Galteemore

[h gricer]

4 hours ago, airfixfan said:

Can I also thank Ciaran for his fantastic work and know from personal experience from writing articles and researching unidentified photos etc just how much time and patience this all requires. Will enjoy going through the latest archive in detail over the next few days.

Yes I fully echo that too, Ciarán's photographic knowledge, skills and qualifications in photographic technology is just incredible, some of my own rejected slides that I had consigned to the recycle bin unable to scan were brought back to life by Ciarán's skills. The improved photographic quality in the IRRS journal, particularly photos from the late J. McCartney Robbins who is nearly 70 years dead, his priceless negatives in storage for decades and now being scanned, digitized and restored by Ciarán, sometimes spending hours restoring a single photo, maybe a damaged negative where the original image is so badly worn. McCartney Robbins and Bob Clements were friends, both born in 1910, but Clements outlived McCartney Robbins by 40 years, McCartney Robbins died at the young age of 42, but he squeezed a lot in his short life leaving a legacy of high quality historical photos. The workload just keeps increasing with more collections waiting on restoration, and the cine films is just another workload, the late Tom Dowling films have been restored and covers the early 1960s, another great photographer that recorded very historical workings and can be seen here.

  

[airfixfan]

6 hours ago, Galteemore said:

As a teenager, I spent hours going through my dad’s collection of images, and thought I had seen pretty much what was out there, SLNC wise. In those days you bought slides and photos off very basic, unillustrated, catalogue descriptions, and you picked out what looked like the best. But what delightful and convenient access we have right now. These are halcyon days for researchers, with so much stuff available. Many thanks to Ciaran and of course our own Ernie ! If you’re not an IRRS member, this archive alone is worth the sub cost. 

A few of your fathers photos now feature on the Disused stations section from Foyle Road to Strabane.

[Galteemore]

Thanks Jim. He has a few additional comments to add for the captions if you’re keen !

[airfixfan]

Pass them.on and we can update the photos. Have already been sent a few rare photos already.

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[flange lubricator]

I see the IRRS Flickr site has been recently updated with another 4k of pictures bringing the total to about 19k images , the latest lot includes many rolling stock gems for the railway modeller including a green H van at Claremorris and brand new Palvans at Inchicore. All of the images have been scanned and restored by Ciaran Cooney over many months in his own time a very painstakingly slow task which as a modeller I for one am certainly appreciative of his efforts. 

Yours truly even puts in an appearance in one image !

Edited July 31, 2022 by flange lubricator

[Galteemore]

Agreed. Ciaran has been an incredible asset for IRRS. The Flickr site has given me many gems.

[Edo]

Agreed - the flickr site is fantastic and is worth the IRRS membership fee alone.

[GSR 800]

Huge addition of excellent photos, including a great many of the last years of steam.

Macha was under the spotlight for me, 20 new photos of her at Glanmire, Mallow and elsewhere in her last year.

2 minutes ago, GSR 800 said:

 

 

 

Edited July 31, 2022 by GSR 800

[h gricer]

6 hours ago, flange lubricator said:

I see the IRRS Flickr site has been recently updated with another 4k of pictures bringing the total to about 19k images , the latest lot includes many rolling stock gems for the railway modeller including a green H van at Claremorris and brand new Palvans at Inchicore. All of the images have been scanned and restored by Ciaran Cooney over many months in his own time a very painstakingly slow task which as a modeller I for one am certainly appreciative of his efforts. 

Yours truly even puts in an appearance in one image !

I could spend hours trawling through the photos, Michael Costelloe colour slides of the Valencia line finally scanned, I remember Michael Costelloe giving a slide show of these colour slides of the Valencia line many years ago, Ciarán has done a nice job enhancing them, photos of that beautiful scenic line that should never have been closed.

Yes I did notice that appearance Flange at Youghal and photo bombing me in the process LOL, the photos with lots of people in them we only appreciate them now, so many have passed on,

hg

Edited July 31, 2022 by h gricer

[Wexford70]

How do you get access to the Flickr pages?

I am an IRRS current member.

[Irishswissernie]

Here is a snip from the IRRS site telling you how to do it. You will need to have a flickr account as well as being an IRRS member

[jhb171achill]

Last month I celebrated my 50th year of IRRS membership!

Over the years it’s been an invaluable source of various sorts of research material. Like other railway heritage organisations throughout Ireland, it is not exactly overflowing with manpower and money, so membership is worthwhile even for those who are rarely in Dublin, purely to support it.

Right now I’m making considerable use  of the archives with two separate research projects in mind.

[Lambeg man]

On 31/7/2022 at 3:33 PM, jhb171achill said:

Last month I celebrated my 50th year of IRRS membership!

When did you join? You must have been only 7 years of age.

[jhb171achill]

35 minutes ago, Lambeg man said:

When did you join? You must have been only 7 years of age.

I wish!

[flange lubricator]

For those who are interested the IRRS Flickr has been updated with more pictures the latest additions from the Tom Dowling Collection as has been said before access to these collection's is worth the Membership alone . Thanks to Ciaran Cooney for taking his unpaid time to scan and upload all of these fabulous pictures .Irish Railway Record Society | Flickr

Edited January 7 by flange lubricator

[leslie10646]

Yes, worth every penny!

A health warning, though, you'll spend hours looking at them, but satisfaction guaranteed!

Well done Ciaran!

Another job for me this year is to add another two collections to this lot - a few thousand more!

[Westcorkrailway]

There appears to have been a few hundred added to the Flickr yesterday

[Galteemore]

Well, I thought I knew a reasonable amount of SLNC lore. But the survival of Railbus 2As body in Mohill in the early 60s? Wow!! You have to be paid up IRRS for this link to work  https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53467659222/in/photolist-2psKJiu-2pBT6Vn-2pwr5PS-2pwxy2Y-2pwC7KV-2pwCQx5-2pBQQE2-2pBQDEM-2pBSTmQ-2pwC7KQ-2pwCYrv-2pwxzwB-2pwC8TS-2pwCQHL-2pwCQSo-2pwDqgi-2pvxd9R-2pwp7Bt-2pwxJAJ-2pwD1By-2pwr5PG-2pwwCPW-2pwwExf-2pwBh5o-2pwDsGa-2pwC4Pg-2pwDqgo-2pBStdU-2pBSSPc-2pBSic1-2pBSTh1-2pwpyuQ-2pwqFZJ-2pwwC9s-2pwwEUn-2pwC6QA-2pwCSUz-2pwCTcD-2pwDpZf-2pwDt92-2pBSTj5-2pwoK1F-2pwBhyz-2pwCV3h-2pwCV7W-2pwDuZw-2pvv3WY-2pvxdfY-2pvxq6S-2pwp7Hv