Photo Thread.

TheBandicoot

Also, I'm almost surprised that IE continued their misuse of the 22ks by using one for the Bray-Greystones shuttle. Almost.

end of the road

TheBandicoot wrote: »

Also, I'm almost surprised that IE continued their misuse of the 22ks by using one for the Bray-Greystones shuttle. Almost.

yes i'm afraid thats how irish rail operate the bandicoot, they have an obsession with operating intercity rolling stock on short distance routes yet continue to operate commuter rolling stock on some services on 2 long distance routes out of connolly, if this was any of the routes out of hueston you can be guaranteed that the proper rolling stock would be used on the long distance routes at all times, ideally some of the 29s would be banished there to operate the killdare commuter with the KRP and time tableing designed to allow long distance trains to stop at killdare only leaving the slow lines for the killdare commuter services, however i expect nothing to change so i've given up at this stage

dowlingm

TheBandicoot wrote: »

The low res of your photos makes them really difficult to enjoy. I assume you're doing it to prevent them being 'stolen', but you're completely overreacting and just damaging the quality of your work I think.

Don't know what you're on about. They look fine to me. Looks like Flickr having rendering issues to me on one of them (the Adare station viewed from behind the LC gates) but a refresh cleared the problem.

TheBandicoot

dowlingm wrote: »

Don't know what you're on about. They look fine to me. Looks like Flickr having rendering issues to me on one of them (the Adare station viewed from behind the LC gates) but a refresh cleared the problem.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/10123878846/sizes/l/

They're only about 1024 pixels across, obviously he has cropped them before uploading to Flickr. On my screen they look pretty small because of that. I mean I can see them fine, but I'd rather they were high res so you could see more detail and zoom in and so on, like the Wanderer's photos.

GTE

TheBandicoot wrote: »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/10123878846/sizes/l/

They're only about 1024 pixels across, obviously he has cropped them before uploading to Flickr. On my screen they look pretty small because of that. I mean I can see them fine, but I'd rather they were high res so you could see more detail and zoom in and so on, like the Wanderer's photos.

Not a huge issue for me but each to their own. It is nice to have people share these pictures as there is effort in photo processing, upload time and what not. Sometimes I just don't get some of the first world problems that people come out with. :pac:

The_Wanderer

Evening all,

I've now uplaoded the final batch of my UK trip photos to Manchester and Birmingham. I've also reorganised the galleries into a better order.

Wednesday 2nd October 2013:
Covers the trip from Holyhead to Altrincham via Chester and the Manchester Metrolink System. http://smu.gs/1concjr

Thursday 3rd - Sunday 6th October 2013: Contains new pictures since previous update.
Thursday morning saw another early start as I make my way from Manchester to Kidderminster, via Stafford and Wolverhampton, for the Severn Valley Railway Diesel Gala.
In the evening time I went to Birmingham to travel back to Kidderminster on the 1715 London Marylebone - Kidderminister Chiltern Mainline service.

Friday and Sunday: A couple of pictures from the Birmingham area.
http://smu.gs/1agqBfz
New pictures from: http://smu.gs/1coo73w


Severn Valley Diesel Gala:
I've now put the Thursday and Friday of the SVR Diesel Gala into one collection for ease of reference. http://smu.gs/1agqjVO

Enjoy,
The Wanderer.

The_Wanderer

TheBandicoot wrote: »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/10123878846/sizes/l/

They're only about 1024 pixels across, obviously he has cropped them before uploading to Flickr. On my screen they look pretty small because of that. I mean I can see them fine, but I'd rather they were high res so you could see more detail and zoom in and so on, like the Wanderer's photos.

The photos that I upload to my site are also substantially reduced in size, usually to 1600x1200 to save on space. I find this still gives good quality for viewing on a webpage.

cml387

Loved the Severn Valley photos.

Was there ever a more aesthetically good looking British loco than the Westerns?

angelIRL

Morning lads,

regarding the quality, I'm having issues with Flickr at the moment. I will start uploading at 1600x1200 to see if that makes a difference. Problem is, the upload speed is less than 1MB/min so I don't want to be uploading for ever I wonder can I still use dial-up

LXFlyer

TheBandicoot wrote: »

The low res of your photos makes them really difficult to enjoy. I assume you're doing it to prevent them being 'stolen', but you're completely overreacting and just damaging the quality of your work I think.

While you may have an issue re the res - saying that it makes them "really difficult to enjoy" is a little harsh.

Were it not for these guys going out (often at ludicrous times of the day), we wouldn't have a record of the railways of today.

I, for one, get much enjoyment out of all the photographs that these guys take, and I think that they should be applauded for sharing them with the rest of us.

The_Wanderer

A stop off at Carn while on the way home for the 1730 Portlaoise - Heuston, 1700 Heuston - Cork and 1705 Heuston - Tralee.
http://smu.gs/17TebeI

The Wanderer.

h.gricer

angelIRL wrote: »

Morning lads,

regarding the quality, I'm having issues with Flickr at the moment.

I had terrible problems with Flicki, so slow, not responding etc. so I change my brower from ''Internet Explorer'' to ''Mozilla Firefox'' it seems to have solved the problem.

Regards
hg

Sligo Quay

TheBandicoot wrote: »

really difficult to enjoy. I assume you're doing it to prevent them being 'stolen', but you're completely overreacting and just damaging the quality of your work I think.

Yep that the case, I don't take snaps myself only with my phone, wouldn't know how to upload pictures.
But there are stories going around, pictures being stolen (as you put it) off facebook and other websites, railway modellors are the worse offenders I'm told by the photographic fraternity, ''you wouldn't understand'' I was told, but if I was into race horses, I wouldn't like my race horse to be stolen, photographers treat their pictures the same way.
Another quote ''really difficult to enjoy'' but its really ment ''really differcult to steal'':eek:

The_Wanderer

Good evening folks,

A stop off at Farranfore earlier today to see 22057 with the 1505 Tralee - Mallow:
http://smu.gs/16VCg7c

The Wanderer.

angelIRL

Afternoon all,

I've uploaded a few photos taken on Thursday, 10 October: http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/

Includes:
- Drogheda
- Tara Mines traffic
- Enterprise services around Dundalk
- NIR Sandite train at Portadown
- C3K on Enterprise duties
- Gormanston Viaduct

F.

The_Wanderer

Morning all,

Photographs from Killarney on Saturday afternoon and an early visit to Carn Bridge on the Monday morning.

Saturday 12th October 2013:
Due to Engineering Works at Charleville on Saturday 12th October 2013, an amended timetable was in operation on the Mallow - Tralee line. This timetable required three trains to operate it, compared to the normal two. The extra train was provided in the form of 2611 + 2612.

Monday 14th October 2013:
The 4 car ICR project has arrived. During the 2nd week of October 22021, 22022 and 22041 were all reformed at Laois Train Care Depot with 22041 losing vehicles 22641 to 22021 and 22741 to 22022. The first 4 car unit entered traffic on Monday 14th October 2013 with 22021 working the 0645 Portlaoise - Heuston, 0800 Heuston - Cork & 1120 Cork - Heuston services.

All the pictures are now available at: http://smu.gs/GUrm5t

The Wanderer.

The_Wanderer

A small update to this morning. More photos from today at Cherryville Jct., Kildare and a place called Killinure between Monastervin and Portarlington.

The pictures include the 2nd four car, 22022 to enter service which was the 1520 Portlaoise - Heuston, 9 car 22058 + 22037 on the 1545 LTD - Heuston and 219 working the 1700 Heuston - Cork with 4005.

Pictures start at http://smu.gs/192UXTK

angelIRL

Quick update from me also:

- 4-car ICR operating the 0800 Heuston to Cork passing Mourneabbey, Co. Cork
- GM 170 at Clonmel and Wellingtonbridge with the "Boat Train" railtour
- MK3's at Mallow
- MK3 push-pull and 2700 on the Kerry Road

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/

F.

end of the road

angelIRL wrote: »

GM 170 at Clonmel and Wellingtonbridge with the "Boat Train" railtour
- MK3's at Mallow
- MK3 push-pull and 2700 on the Kerry Road

ah the good old days, gone but never forgotten

angelIRL

angelIRL wrote: »

- GM 170 at Clonmel and Wellingtonbridge with the "Boat Train" railtour

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/10253104664/in/photostream/

Another photo with me in it, gawking into the cab. That was the first railtour I went on. Last time I was ever on a Cravens set, too.

The_Wanderer

A stop off at Carn while on the way home for the 1730 Portlaoise - Heuston, 1700 Heuston - Cork, 1705 Heuston - Tralee and an Airbus A330 at 41,000ft!
http://smu.gs/1aJVtFr

The Wanderer.

h.gricer

Eiretrains wrote: »

By coincidence I just uploaded some material of the Castlecomer branch recently, which I photographed last year.
Places included Deerpark itself, Castlecomer, Corbetstown (the only intermediate station) and Castlecomer Junction - lots of remnants still visible.

The new look to your site looks really well Eiretrains, the home page makes it easier to view resent photos.

Regards
hg

The_Wanderer

In preparation for the October Bank Holiday weekend resignalling project in the "Dublin North" Interlocking a Connolly Driver was passed out on the Howth Branch on Thursday 17th October. 29011 was used for the driver passing out and "L.G." was on hand at Howth to record the first 29000 Class on the branch.
http://smu.gs/19bvGXp

The Wanderer.

Cookie_Monster

An image I rather randomly came across while reading up on wagon types.
The wonders of modern saftey procedures


And stolen from You laugh, you lose.

Eiretrains

h.gricer wrote: »

The new look to your site looks really well Eiretrains, the home page makes it easier to view resent photos.
Regards
hg

Thanks hg, yes after six years of the same format I decided to give it a fresh look!:cool:


I don't regularly post updates here, but I did upload two large galleries of my recent work over last year or two,
so I therefore invite regular and past users to view and take a look here
http://eiretrains.com/latestphotos/Summer-Winter%202012/latestphotos.html
and here
http://eiretrains.com/latestphotos/Spring%202013/latestphotos.html

I hope to add some more material in due course.:P
Thanks for looking!

metrovick001

Top class shots as usual Eiretrains.
The site looks very well.

Eiretrains

metrovick001 wrote: »

Top class shots as usual Eiretrains.
The site looks very well.

Thanks very much metrovick, likewise yours too, a very nice 80 Class sandite photo there. :cool:

The_Wanderer

Evening all,

The weekend's photos have now been uploaded.

Saturday 19th October 2013:
An afternoon visit to Stacummy Bridge, near Hazelhatch.

Sunday 20th October 2013:
Photos from Dundalk & the Egyptian Arch at Newry of the RPSI's "Across the Tracks" charter from Dundalk to Whitehead RPSI. Later in the day, a visit to Laytown for 29016, 077 and (8)208.

Pictures begin at http://smu.gs/1c7trsK

The Wanderer.

The Stroller

Great shots Mr Wanderer

metrovick001

Great shot of the retrojet Wanderer.