Photo Thread.

OurLadyofKnock

Judgement Day wrote: »

Deutz G611 at Dunsandle on a mixed Loughrea/Attymon branch train. The age difference between loco and the passenger carriage must have been considerable! Not sure of the date. A digital print is available on eBay - sorry can't find the listing tonight.

Beautiful. I can understand why Ireland's railways were considered so romantic looking at this photo. I know it was a hard life for folks back then, but we really have lost something special and magical.

Looks like there are pallets of bagged cement or something in goods shed too.

gobnaitolunacy

A CIE poster with a 141 (B163) and an odd Clockwork Orange bowler hat thing going on in the background.

Judgement Day

From the days when trains were really useful. The last time I traveled from Dun Laoghaire Pier was on an RPSI special with 184 or 186 - forget the details. Print below is for sale on eBay.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IRISH-Loco-260-at-Docks-Station-/190755229878?pt=UK_Collectables_Railwayana_RL&hash=item2c69e5d0b6



260 at Dun Laogahire

end of the road

Judgement Day wrote: »

From the days when trains were really useful.

yeah, CIE management will make sure their no more use then a blade of grass and the government won't do anything to make them make the trains useful, to CIE management their just there so they can live out their days until the pension, and the government a nightmare that they couldn't just get rid of over night because of the fallout, better to play the long game of slowly running the lot into the ground.

Sligo Quay

Nice pictures here with some trains http://www.facebook.com/SligoPhotographs#!/photo.php?fbid=381652065231234&set=a.381648858564888.87264.381647745231666&type=1&theater

steamengine

Judgement Day wrote: »

From the days when trains were really useful. The last time I traveled from Dun Laoghaire Pier was on an RPSI special with 184 or 186 - forget the details. ..........

I was on it for real back in the good old days !!!

Losty Dublin

A B+W shot of passengers awaiting the RPSI Santa Special to arrive into Westland Row last Saturday.

Our man in Havana

It is a rather bleak place, even in colour.

Losty Dublin

Our man in Havana wrote: »

It is a rather bleak place, even in colour.

It's not the most bright place though the refurbishment has helped somewhat.

One of Downpatrick from the ITG diesel day; it could well be a scene from the mid 70's.

Losty Dublin

Losty Dublin wrote: »

It's not the most bright place though the refurbishment has helped somewhat.

One of Downpatrick from the ITG diesel day; it could well be a scene from the mid 70's.

I was there too, can't say I'd have recognised you though.

dregin

Just posted to the Letterkenny town FB page. Barnesmore Gap. No date.

Losty Dublin

dregin wrote: »

Just posted to the Letterkenny town FB page. Barnesmore Gap. No date.

I'd guess that train as being early 50's, based on the miss mash of rolling stock on hand. The CDRJC rarely ran steam passenger trains as they had a fleet of capable rail buses to call upon. When they did run steam passenger trains it was for a special event or occasion locally so it's possible that the photo is of a train for the 12th July or a GAA match, both of which provided a lot of traffic on railways in and around Ulster.

Incidentally, there would have been a second steam engine on the rear of that train; the Barnesmore gap was one of the most notorious climbs on any line

rainbowdash

Judgement Day wrote: »

Another interesting view of Ardnacrusha (slide currently on eBay) which should be viewed with my previous pic here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=80421090&postcount=469

Those Ardnacrusha pictures are the first I've ever seen of the spur. I remember the track was there in the 1980's but when was it last used?

And what was it used for - given it was a hydro electric plant so nothing comes in and out by way of raw materials and finished goods?

dowlingm

What a different railway we might have today if that spur had been electrified and expanded on!

Losty Dublin

dowlingm wrote: »

What a different railway we might have today if that spur had been electrified and expanded on!

The Up a Dam Railway?

Our man in Havana

What line was/is this a spur off of?

Losty Dublin

Our man in Havana wrote: »

What line was/is this a spur off of?

Limerick-Ennis.

Judgement Day

rainbowdash wrote: »

Those Ardnacrusha pictures are the first I've ever seen of the spur. I remember the track was there in the 1980's but when was it last used?

And what was it used for - given it was a hydro electric plant so nothing comes in and out by way of raw materials and finished goods?

Electrical equipment? Anyway, it branched off the main Limerick/Ennis line at Longpavement and latterly a portion remained in use into the dump at Longpavement. I believe the rails (they were still there in the early 1990s) eventually found their way to Moyasta but I doubt that they were reused.

Judgement Day

Judgement Day wrote: »

Electrical equipment? Anyway, it branched off the main Limerick/Ennis line at Longpavement and latterly a portion remained in use into the dump at Longpavement. I believe the rails (they were still there in the early 1990s) eventually found their way to Moyasta but I doubt that they were reused.

Maybe they're the rails that the ITG locos are sitting on. :pac:

Rud

Something a bit different taken from NASAs page on Facebook of a Soyuz rocket been rolled out by an engine in Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday past

Losty Dublin

Yesterday saw the last day of the DCDR Lapland Express trains. A more sedate alternative to the mainline RPSI Santa Specials, the services serve the Loop line platform include a propelling maneuver; a rarity on today's railway. All trains bar one ran full with over 400 passengers being carried on the Sunday alone. Here we see O+K 1 coming home to Downpatrick with her third service of the day; an apt post for the season that we are in.

LivelineDipso

dowlingm wrote: »

What a different railway we might have today if that spur had been electrified and expanded on!

Just read today that the DUTC powered their trams and electric freight locomotives using power from Ardnacrusha when the generating plant came on stream. The EBS made a deal with the DUTC and the tram company were delighted to take up the offer as they could reduce costs by closing their Ringsend generation station.

Apparently it was a happy arrangement while it lasted. So in a sense Ardnacrusha did power and eletric railway system until 1949.

Another intersting fact that between 1916 and the end of the civil war not only did the DUTC manage to maintain the same level of services as in peacetime, they made a profit year after year. Amazing really.

They actually introduce a parcels service that was a huge success during these terrible times.

dregin

Taken from here.

ThreeLineWhip

ThreeLineWhip

steamengine wrote: »

Where is that location ThreeLineWhip brilliant photo - lovely Victorian brickwork - those arches etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture

It is part of that line.

ThreeLineWhip

ThreeLineWhip wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture

It is part of that line.

Looks very well for a line that's been abandoned for 80 years! :eek: If that were in Ireland then the whole thing would be covered in trees and shrubs.

Victor

I think there are similar walls in Leicester.

Judgement Day

Apparently work is underway on the New Ross branch at last.

Temp101

Good heavens, look at that lot! How much in danger they all are!

They've no high-viz vests on!

Losty Dublin

Judgement Day wrote: »

Apparently work is underway on the New Ross branch at last.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that I've seen that photo dug before, JD, and I'm scoobydubious of it's authentic yellowbelliness