Photo Thread.

TheBandicoot · 18-07-2014 5:38pm

Don't usually support graffiti, but the 50mph limit on Barrow Bridge is a nice touch:D

angelIRL · 19-07-2014 7:04pm

Evening all,

I've uploaded some photos taken over the passed few weeks: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/

Includes:
- UK Trip (Kemble, Bristol, Swindon)
- RPSI "Bray Shuttle" steam excursion trp
- IRRS Diesel tour to Waterford & Limerick via Nenagh

I've also added two videos of the IRRS tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml5_WX-6SFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WIxRqDz2lE

Finbarr.

angelIRL · 21-07-2014 11:37am

Good morning,

some photos taken by one of my Flickr site contributors of the withdrawn Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail MK3 transfers from Dundalk to Belfast on Sunday, 20 July:

More on: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/

F.

The_Wanderer · 21-07-2014 9:03pm

Evening all,

It has been a rather busy weekend with the IRRS tour, MK3 scrap moves and Weedsprayer train over the South Wexford. So for the updates we will start with today and work our way back. First up is a batch of photos of the weedspray train operating over the South Wexford Line on Monday morning.

Click http://www.thewandererphotos.com/2014Photos/July-2014/i-vbtkbvS

The Wanderer.

monument · 22-07-2014 2:04pm

The_Wanderer wrote: »

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The_Wanderer · 22-07-2014 8:07pm

Evening all,

The 2nd batch of photographs from the weekend have been uploaded for Sunday 20th July 2014.

Iarnrod Eireann moved another 6 Mark 3 carriages from Dundalk to Belfast Adalaide Depot for scrapping. The consist was 7102 + 7147 + 7166 + 7406 + 7115 + 7615 and was hauled by 228. Click http://smu.gs/1twjNVh to view.

After the movement, a visit was paid to the Downpatrick & County Down Railway. Click http://smu.gs/1yXwNX3 for the Downpatrick photos.

The Wanderer.

angelIRL · 23-07-2014 5:32pm

Cork was visited today by GM 072 hauling the weedsprayer

Video:

The_Wanderer · 23-07-2014 10:29pm

Evening folks,

I've finally managed to get the photographs from the recent IRRS railtour online.

As we've come to expect it was another fantastic day out.

Click http://www.smu.gs/WF7QBT

The Wanderer.

Judgement Day · 23-07-2014 10:50pm

Ah, a blast from the past - the railway records tour...still can't even manage to name their trains after all these years.

metrovick001 · 24-07-2014 9:46am

No need to name them, most enthusiasts know where the train is going.
I did like the way the ITG had a dedicated name board on the front of locos on its tours but the IRRS board is still carried.

Judgement Day wrote: »

Ah, a blast from the past - the railway records tour...still can't even manage to name their trains after all these years.

bob425 · 24-07-2014 10:25am

Judgement Day wrote: »

Ah, a blast from the past - the railway records tour...still can't even manage to name their trains after all these years.

And hopefully never will. The iconic headboard on the front is all we need.

The_Wanderer · 25-07-2014 6:27pm

A few pictures from a sun drenched Portlaoise Station today featuring MKIV's and ICR's.

Click http://smu.gs/1tKvWpJ

The Wanderer.

h.gricer · 25-07-2014 7:22pm

bob425 wrote: »

And hopefully never will. The iconic headboard on the front is all we need.

And so say all of us, tis iconic, it goes back to steam days with a railtour to Tullow. Now I'm told it was made by the Late Kevin Murray (God bless him)

But the ITG headboards are unique in their own way, they ran a railtour to Foynes when some said it would never happen, so it was a flying pig, pigs do fly, the headboards must have been done by artists, I always love to photo their headboards.
Regards
hg

h.gricer · 25-07-2014 8:24pm

The IRRS iconic headboard had it's finest hour on Saturday 27th 2009 on the MK3 railtour, our locomotives for the day was 171+152, Connolly / Limerick via Nenagh, then via Thurles on the return.
At Thurles on the return 171+152 where giving problems, no available locomotives for replacement, the train was failed.
We would have to complete the railtour on a service train (16.30ex Cork), but only 1 problem

the iconic headboard would have to complete the railtour, not packed away, no no, this has never happen before, a crisis discussion, a vote was taken, we traveled back from Thurles with the iconic headboard placed proudly up front on MK4 DVT 4006.
When we arrived in Heuston the gricers couldn't get enough of it, the passengers on the 16.30ex Cork wondered what all the fuss was about, but it was a moment in history that just had to be recorded, from steam days to the MK4 present day.
Regards
hg

25-07-2014 8:54pm

h.gricer wrote: »

The IRRS iconic headboard had it's finest hour on Saturday 27th 2009 on the MK3 railtour, our locomotives for the day was 171+152, Connolly / Limerick via Nenagh, then via Thurles on the return.
At Thurles on the return 171+152 where giving problems, no available locomotives for replacement, the train was failed.
We would have to complete the railtour on a service train (16.30ex Cork), but only 1 problem the iconic headboard would have to complete the railtour, not packed away, no no, this has never happen before, a crisis discussion, a vote was taken, we traveled back from Thurles with the iconic headboard placed proudly up front on MK4 DVT 4006.
When we arrived in Heuston the gricers couldn't get enough of it, the passengers on the 16.30ex Cork wondered what all the fuss was about, but it was a moment in history that just had to be recorded, from steam days to the MK4 present day.
Regards
hg

I remember that day well; I was on it. 171 failed and wouldn't restart.

metrovick001 · 25-07-2014 9:46pm

https://www.flickr.com/photos/metrovick/14743707572/in/photostream/

metrovick001 · 25-07-2014 10:01pm

Here is a photo of the special with 171 & 152 near Cloughjordan!

The_Wanderer · 26-07-2014 12:03am

h.gricer wrote: »

The IRRS iconic headboard had it's finest hour on Saturday 27th 2009 on the MK3 railtour, our locomotives for the day was 171+152, Connolly / Limerick via Nenagh, then via Thurles on the return.
At Thurles on the return 171+152 where giving problems, no available locomotives for replacement, the train was failed.
We would have to complete the railtour on a service train (16.30ex Cork), but only 1 problem the iconic headboard would have to complete the railtour, not packed away, no no, this has never happen before, a crisis discussion, a vote was taken, we traveled back from Thurles with the iconic headboard placed proudly up front on MK4 DVT 4006.
When we arrived in Heuston the gricers couldn't get enough of it, the passengers on the 16.30ex Cork wondered what all the fuss was about, but it was a moment in history that just had to be recorded, from steam days to the MK4 present day.
Regards
hg

Sadly I had to abandon ship in Thurles that day. But it still made for a picture.
http://www.thewandererphotos.com/RailtoursPreservedRailways/2009/IRRS-Limerick/i-8NFch7r

Eiretrains · 26-07-2014 1:27am

The_Wanderer wrote: »

Sadly I had to abandon ship in Thurles that day. But it still made for a picture.
http://www.thewandererphotos.com/RailtoursPreservedRailways/2009/IRRS-Limerick/i-8NFch7r

Yes many of us were fortuitous of getting a photo of that, unless there's a fairwell tour(!) for the Mk4s who knows when it will appear on one again. As mentioned, that IRRS headboard is iconic, having reached many places that nowadays have long since been devoid of railways, as well as being mounted on so many locomotives, railcars and trams (and even road vehicles when necessary!).

The board's first appearance (sporting light-green lettering with unpainted frame) may have been when GSW D17 4-4-0 No.64 lead an IRRS special to Tullow, 21st March 1957. It actually reached Tullow twice, for two years later on the 15th March 1959 J15 No.171 headed the final to tour there (see O'Dea photo). In that year it also made an appearance on Hill of Howth tram No.9 in May prior to the tram's demise. Towards the end of 1959, it was mounted onto an ex GNR(I) railcar for a trip on the long gone Irish North West route.

With Metrovick A Class A44 it is believed to be the first time it was on a CIE diesel locomotive, when it took the IRRS onto the Mountmellick branch in March 1960. I think it remained in these colours until August 1970 when the lettering went to navy with a cream background, appearing on the much photographed railcar 2509 (ex SLNCR 'B') on a run to Ballincourty, but this was quickly replaced by the current scheme of blue lettering/frame on a white background in May 1972, when A30R worked a photo-stop train from Claremorris to Ballina.

Of course I have left out many other trips and significant occasions, too numerous to speak of, but safe to say, from Stradbally to Derry and from Banbridge to Cobh, its clocked up its fair share of mileage. As someone recently said to me, if only that headboard could talk, what stories and tales it could tell...;)

No.171 with the IRRS headboard to Tullow, 15 March 1959, by J.P O'Dea.

March 15, 1959 by National Library of Ireland on The Commons, on Flickr