Photo Thread.

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

Thursday 10th March 2016:
While on a visit to the IRRS at Heuston for the excellent lecture by Brian Solomon, I grabbed a photo of 071 stabled in the Guinness Yard with a Autoballaster rake.

Click the image below to see full high rez version.

Salmon Leap

"The Shannon" [HDR] by John McK, on Flickr

The Chieftain

angelIRL wrote: »

Evening all,

some photos taken around County Cork over the last few days...

F.

Great to see an 8-coach train in use. Can I ask a few questions
- Is this the largest number of passenger coaches in use these days?
- How full are these 8-coach services?
- Which services are 8-coach?

The_Wanderer

A selection of pictures from the RPSI "The Shannon" and "The Boyle" Railtours on Sunday 13th March 2016.
Click http://smu.gs/1SLDDu to view.

angelIRL

Morning all,

Some photos taken during a trip to Sligo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/


Drumsna


Belcoo and Blacklion


Ardrahan


Ballysadare

F.

MrMorooka

Amazing how much water and coal needs to be taken on for a single round trip. I'm assuming it's because the loco was not designed to such long runs when it was initially in service?

flyingsnail

MrMorooka wrote: »

Amazing how much water and coal needs to be taken on for a single round trip. I'm assuming it's because the loco was not designed to such long runs when it was initially in service?

With No4 you could expect to plan 45-60 miles between water stops, the variation comes in how hard the locomotive would have to work, eg long vs short train up hill or down hill, stop start or continuous running ect.

Losty Dublin

The Chieftain wrote: »

Great to see an 8-coach train in use. Can I ask a few questions
- Is this the largest number of passenger coaches in use these days?
- How full are these 8-coach services?
- Which services are 8-coach?

Truth be known, it's really 5 carriages seating 64, the bar and diner which seat 28 and 24 (I think but it's not far off if I'm out.) and the brake/generator van which has no passenger capacity.

As a rule, longer trains are only used for Santa specials and Dublin local trips or whenever ticket sales warrant more seats. This is simply down to fuel economy; the longer the load the more fuel that is used. Some services can't take longer trains; Wicklow being one such example.

MrMorooka

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Truth be known, it's really 5 carriages seating 64, the bar and diner which seat 28 and 24 (I think but it's not far off if I'm out.) and the brake/generator van which has no passenger capacity.

As a rule, longer trains are only used for Santa specials and Dublin local trips or whenever ticket sales warrant more seats. This is simply down to fuel economy; the longer the load the more fuel that is used. Some services can't take longer trains; Wicklow being one such example.

Interesting info, but he was talking about the 8car 22k at this image

Losty Dublin

MrMorooka wrote: »

Interesting info, but he was talking about the 8car 22k at this image

True, now I can see it on my laptop and not my phone and missed out on the link over some RPSI chatter

The_Wanderer

Evening all,

Some images from last weekend in Killarney / Farranfore and the Dublin area.
Click http://smu.gs/1QYxTwr to view.

Also I'm spending a few days in the Manchester and Liverpool areas.
The first batch of pictures have now been uploaded to http://smu.gs/1STTyax

The_Wanderer

The Chieftain wrote: »

Great to see an 8-coach train in use. Can I ask a few questions
- Is this the largest number of passenger coaches in use these days?
- How full are these 8-coach services?
- Which services are 8-coach?

9 Car 22000 operation is the max passenegr size allowed these days.
- Connolly / Heuston to Cork & Tralee. Can only stop at certain stations.
- Portarlington - Athlone non stop.

- When the Ballast Cleaning timetable is in force there is only a two hourly Cork service instead of hourly. Also the direct Dublin - Limerick & Tralee services are cancelled. So they are very busy. Some trains last year were reported as standing room only.
- Regular 8ICR operation only happens during the Ballast Cleaning timetable. Some trains may be 8ICR to position extra stok to a location but this isn't very regular.

The Wanderer.

postitnote

Fascinating (well I thought so) of the NIR 70 class hauling freight.

I never would have considered the 70 or 80 class would have been used to haul freight!!

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3462144

Freight train at Downhill - 1977
Two UTA built 70-class DEMUs haul the nightly (Monday - Friday) Londonderry (Waterside) - Lisburn freight service past the strand at Downhill.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3462139

Freight train at Downhill - 1979
Built by the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) 1966-68, the eight 70-class DEMUs where used by the UTA and its successor Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) for both passenger and freight haulage. Their most notable working was the evening Monday - Friday freight service from Londonderry (Waterside) to Lisburn, operated on behalf of CIE whose own locomotives would then take the train on to Dublin. Headed by No. 71 "River Bush", the train is about to enter Downhill tunnel on its was to Lisburn via Antrim and Knockmore Junction. With improved roads in Donegal and Sligo, this service simply petered-out in the 1980.

GM228

postitnote wrote: »

Fascinating (well I thought so) of the NIR 70 class hauling freight.

I never would have considered the 70 or 80 class would have been used to haul freight!!

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3462144





http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3462139

Was common enough for the 70s to haul short trains (they wouldn't cope with longer heavier trains), the 80s never hauled the freights as they were air braked.

I believe some of the MPDs also hauled short freight trains aswell.

tabbey

GM228 wrote: »

Was common enough for the 70s to haul short trains (they wouldn't cope with longer heavier trains), the 80s never hauled the freights as they were air braked.

I believe some of the MPDs also hauled short freight trains aswell.

Yes - the MPD class got their name from being multi purpose diesels.

At 265 hp per car, three power cars produced 795 hp, not quite as much as a B141 class loco, but a lot more than a C class, which occasionally powered main line goods trains on CIE.

A pair of 70 class, at 560 hp per power car, produced marginally more than a B 181, so more than adequate for most goods trains in Ireland.

The_Wanderer

The second and final batch of images from my mid week UK trip to Liverpool and Manchester area have now been uploaded to the website.

To view Thursday's images clickhttp://smu.gs/1pzqZDT

To view all the images from the start ciick http://smu.gs/1STTyax

A selection of the gallery is highlighted below.

The_Wanderer

The second and final batch of images from my mid week UK trip to Liverpool and Manchester area have now been uploaded to the website.

To view Thursday's images clickhttp://smu.gs/1pzqZDT

To view all the images from the start ciick http://smu.gs/1STTyax

A selection of the gallery is highlighted below.

The_Wanderer

Afternoon all,

Saturday produced some rare freight action with both Up & Down IWT Liners scheduled to operate. As an added bonus there was also a 1130 Portlaoise - North Wall PWD Materials Train which followed right behind the 0815 Ballina - North Wall IWT Liner.

I popped over to Killenard to photograph the proceedings.

Click http://smu.gs/1pAAJxT to view all the pictures from today.

angelIRL

Evening all,

some photos taken over the last few days: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/

Includes:
- UK rail trip Stansted-Gatwick via Brighton & Lewes
- ICR spl from Limerick - Fota
- InterCity services at Rathduff


Lewes


Gatwick Airport


Rockhill

F.

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

The latest batch of images have now been uploaded to the website and feature:

- Portarlington.
- Carn Bridge (highlight being (8)209 appearing on the 1700 Heuston - Cork.
- Portlaoise.
- Laois Depot
- Thurles.
- Limerick Jct.
- Mallow
- Cork.

Click http://smu.gs/22wT1xX to view.

Jamie2k9

Spotted a 26 or 800 at Portlaoise Depot on Thursday, any idea's what it was doing there. Was the Cork side of the Sheds.

metrovick001

073 on an RPSI Connolly-Arklow special at Newcastle, Co. Wicklow 031010 by Metro Vick, on Flickr

Click here to see a video of the train - https://youtu.be/gPMGkhxYg78

GM228

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Spotted a 26 or 800 at Portlaoise Depot on Thursday, any idea's what it was doing there. Was the Cork side of the Sheds.

Wheel turning.

Jamie2k9

GM228 wrote: »

Wheel turning.

I see, do they no longer go to Inchicore?

The_Wanderer

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

I see, do they no longer go to Inchicore?

2603 + 2604 paid a visit to Laois Depot for wheel turning.

Inchicore still does them. It depends on the workload at each location. Inchicore might have been busy with locos or MKIV's and Laois Depot had a slot for them.

On the flip side if Laois Depot's lathe workload is busy, it isn't uncommon for an 22000 set to visit Inchicore for wheel turning. Especially if it is an unplanned casualty and is needed back in traffic asap.

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

Two updates tonight to the website.

The first is to the March gallery and features:
- Interesting day today with Tamper 743 operating Kildare to Mallow and heavily delayed West of Ireland freight services due to 088 having flat batteries at Ballina and 087 having to go and jump start it.
Click http://smu.gs/1Rbn6iP to view.


The second update is a contributed gallery from>>>> and features the event held at Stradbally on Sunday 20th March for a 1916 Centenary reenactment / pageant event acknowledging and highlighting the historical role of county Laois in the 1916 rising.
Click http://smu.gs/1XIaYGc to view.

angelIRL

Morning all,

some photos taken in Cork this morning while the sun was out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/

2607/08 0715 Cork - Midleton at Glounthaune


8209 0800 Mallow - Cork at Finbarr O'Neill


Finbarr

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

A few pictures from Friday and Saturday at:

- Portlaoise
- Mallow
- Killarney.

Highlight being (8)209 working the 1300 Heuston - Cork on Friday.

Click http://smu.gs/1q8cffj to view.

Captain Chaos

8209 must be welded to the Mk4s. It's yet to work an Enterprise refurb set.

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

A batch of 40+ photos have been uploaded from the past two days.

Sunday 27th March 2016:
079 was stabled in Portarlington for the weekend with a Spoil Train.

Monday 28th March 2016:
I intended to pop over to the Stradbally Railway today but the big railway was far more interesting after I discovered (slightly too late in one case) that a full freight timetable was scheduled to operate.

Photos on Monday come from:
- Portarlington.
- Killenard.
- Monasterevin.
- Cherryville.
- The Curragh.

Click http://smu.gs/1WT4ep7 to view.