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Del.Monte

Why are the rails on the Sligo Quay branch shiny?

The_Wanderer

Del.Monte wrote: »

Why are the rails on the Sligo Quay branch shiny?

The stub of the branch is used to stable rolling stock.

The_Wanderer

Evening all,

The rest of the images from Saturday and a few from today have now been uploaded to the September gallery.

Saturday 9th September 2017:
Some photos of service trains at Connolly and on the Sligo line taken during the RPSI / MRSI "East Coaster" railtour (see post from Sunday for the railtour pictures).

Monday 11th September 2017:
A nice capture today for a Monday lunchtime was photographing 073 passing Rosskelton on a HOBS train to Lisduff. Later in the day has a few images from Portlaoise and Limerick.

Click smu.gs/2wkRDU4 to view.

Also when passing Broombridge on the RPSI / MRSI Railtour to Sligo I managed to get some photos of stabled trams at the new LUAS Depot.
Click smu.gs/2wlb7HZ to view these.

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

Two updates to the website this evening.

The first update, to the September Gallery covers images from during the week and today at Nenagh, Portlaoise and Dublin City.
Click http://smu.gs/2wt3Q8X to view.

The second update are the first images from a long weekend trip to London.
Click http://smu.gs/2x5mhEs to view.

Fred Swanson

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The_Wanderer

Morning all,

Friday's pictures from London have now been uploaded to www.smu.gs/2xa2AuY

Featuring:
- Carshalton Beeches.
- Epsom Downs
- Tattenham Corner.
- Purley. Joining two Class 455's together and 66076 on a freight in the yard.
- East Croydon.
- Oxted.
- Eridge.
- Uckfield.
- Edenbridge Town.
- Edenbridge.
- Redhill
- Gatwick. 59204 passing through on a freight.

The_Wanderer

Morning folks,

Pictures from a jaunt around London on Saturday have now been uploaded to http://smu.gs/2xedGOl

Featuring:
- A trip on the new Mail Rail exhibition at the Postal Museum in Mount Pleasant.
- Docklands Light Railway trips.
- Greenwich Foot Tunnel.
- Emirates Air Line (cable car).
- Class 455's at Victoria and Carshalton Beeches.

The_Wanderer

Evening all,

The final batch of images from my weekend in London have now been uploaded to the website.

Featuring:
- Croydon Tramlink photos from East Croydon, Phipps Bridge, Morden Road and Wimbledon.
- Class 455's & Class 700's at Wimbledon. Two generations of EMU's.
- X26 across South London to Hatton Cross.
- Hatton Cross and Heathrow T1,2,3.

Click http://smu.gs/2xn8qJE to view.

To see all the photos from the weekend you can click http://smu.gs/2x5mhEs to view these.

These feature:

Thursday's images feature the trip from Dublin to Gatwick and Gatwick Station itself.

Friday's photos feature:
- Carshalton Beeches.
- Epsom Downs
- Tattenham Corner.
- Purley. Joining two Class 455's together and 66076 on a freight in the yard.
- East Croydon.
- Oxted.
- Eridge.
- Uckfield.
- Edenbridge Town.
- Edenbridge.
- Redhill
- Gatwick. 59204 passing through on a freight.

Saturday's photos feature:
- A trip on the new Mail Rail exhibition at the Postal Museum in Mount Pleasant.
- Docklands Light Railway trips.
- Greenwich Foot Tunnel.
- Emirates Air Line (cable car).
- Class 455's at Victoria and Carshalton Beeches.

The_Wanderer

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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When CTC was first introduced in 1976 the signal prefix from the fringe at Inchicore to Portlaoise was "CY".

With resignalling of Inchicore - Kildare, Cherryville Jct, Portarlington in recent years the CY signal codes all changed to a more local designation of:

HK - Heuston - Kildare (now includes Cherryville Jct.).
PN: Portarlington.

Therefore Portlaoise is the only element of the original CTC scheme back in the mid 1970's. Indeed the southern half of CY at Portlaoise was "chopped off" to create "PL" for the opening of Laois Traincare in 2008. Additional signals were installed and the automatic signals between Portlaoise and Ballybrophy were changed from CY to PL prefix.

In hindsight the whole of Portlaoise Station should have been resignalled as it is a bugger to turn trains back north to south. I.E. Up road train becomes a down road train. Before you could do it by passing signals at danger with the appropriate controls in place but that isn't allowed anymore so you need to go to Portarlington to turn a train from north to south.

The_Wanderer

Thursday 21st September 2017:
Images from around Portlaoise featuring:
- 201 & MKIV sets on Cork services.
- Empty 3ICR off a irish Distillers Private Charter from Heuston to Cork.
- Tullamore - Cork National Ploughing Championship Spl.

Click http://smu.gs/2wKm7ia

Jamie2k9

In hindsight the whole of Portlaoise Station should have been resignalled as it is a bugger to turn trains back north to south. I.E. Up road train becomes a down road train. Before you could do it by passing signals at danger with the appropriate controls in place but that isn't allowed anymore so you need to go to Portarlington to turn a train from north to south.

Can you not reverse the up train back onto the down road or into the loop and re enter the down road?

Did IE implement the changes or those outside know it all parties?

The_Wanderer

Afternoon all,

There are two updates to the website today featuring:

- The September gallery has been updated with images from Nenagh, Galway and Oranmore over the weekend.
Click http://smu.gs/2wRD5Ly to view.

- It's been over three years since I last visited the narrow gauge railway at Stradbally and in that time some major changes have taken place, with the building of a new two road maintenance shed and improvements to the platform at Stradbally with the addition of various items of traditional platform furniture. I visited the railway for their September running day on Sunday 24th September.
Due to a minor issue with their ex Bord na Mona steam locomotive No. 2, this was stopped during the day for maintenance attention to take place, with the last hour of service being provided by diesel locomotive "Rusty".
Click http://smu.gs/2wRK07S to view.

The_Wanderer

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Can you not reverse the up train back onto the down road or into the loop and re enter the down road?

No as those are both unsignalled movements.

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Did IE implement the changes or those outside know it all parties?

AFAIK and I could be wrong I think it was internal. Portlaoise is not the only located affected, with several cases of what could be done before now not allowed.

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

Just two photos from earlier today, the hightlight being 218 replacing 216 on this weeks Belmond Grand Hibernian.

Click http://smu.gs/2yrPkzS to view.

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

Today I followed the Emerald Isle Explorer from Mallow to Cobh and then to Killarney. The highlight being later on in Killarney when the Belmond Grand Hibernian also arrived into the station. The two privately owned trains passed to operated on IE metals in the same location at the same time.

Click http://smu.gs/2xGZIGt to view all these.

The second update is some images from Limerick Jct. this evening featuring 082 stabled on PWD duties and a rare case of 2612 + 2611 covering for a shortage of 2800 Class sets on the Limerick Jct. Shuttle.

Click http://smu.gs/2xGdmcY to view.

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

Four updates to the website this evening featuring:

* October 2017 updated with images from Baltimore and Ballydehob showing old railway infrastructure.
* Visit to the West Cork Model Railway Village.
* Railtours Ireland "Emerald Isle Express" updated with photos of 073 at Woodfarm between Limerick Jct. and Limerick.
* September 2017 updated with photos from Mallow and Skibbereen.

All the above galleries can be accessed from https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com

Del.Monte

I see the West Cork Model Railway Village is still as big a farce as ever; so bad that it's beyond further comment and you need to visit it to fully appreciate its awfulness.

The_Wanderer

A group of friends decide to go to Poznan for the weekend. Two of us decide to take the scenic route and get the train from London to Berlin (overnight) and then onto Poznan Friday morning, while the rest of them fly out on Friday from Dublin.

What could possibly go wrong?

It turns out we didn't bargain for a massive DB farce in the Berlin area due to OHLE down from bad weather and an ICE carriage is about to become our bed for the night in Leipzig station.

Click http://smu.gs/2y3fhsh to view the adventure so far.....

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Fred Swanson

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The_Wanderer

Refreshments available from the Bistro car.

LXFlyer

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Well to be fair to DB this article outlines the damage caused by the storm - it was not by any means insignificant.

https://www.thelocal.de/20171005/storm-xavier-brings-train-services-in-much-of-north-germany-to-a-stop

The_Wanderer

LXFlyer wrote: »

Well to be fair to DB this article outlines the damage caused by the storm - it was not by any means insignificant.

https://www.thelocal.de/20171005/storm-xavier-brings-train-services-in-much-of-north-germany-to-a-stop

There were several hotel trains around Germany last night!

Staff were good. Kept passengers informed etc. The Germans took it in their stride. Didn't hear any complaints.

The_Wanderer

The second part of my trip to Poznan, which turned into a bit of an adventure due to Storm Xavier hitting northern Germany and Poland has now been uploaded to the website.

After being stranded overnight in Leipzig on the hotel train, we managed to book tickets to get a bus to Berlin early on the Friday morning. Once in Berlin it became clear that there was still no trains running and we would have to get another bus to Poznan to meet up with the rest of the group that had headed from Dublin to Poznan on the Friday morning.

Therefore the latest update is more of a travelblog with pictures of buses and stationary trains in how to get from Leipzig to Poznan via Berlin when the rail network is out of action. To top it off I didn’t even get to see any Polish trains, let alone travel on any!

You can click http://smu.gs/2kwTHaL to see the pictures from Friday, plus Saturday’s picture of heading back to Dublin via Frankfurt.

Click http://smu.gs/2y3fhsh to see the gallery from the very start.

Maybe the 2018 trip will be a bit closer to home?

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The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

The October gallery has been updated earlier today with:

Saturday 7th October:
Flying into Dublin from Frankfurt with views of the City and Bay.

Sunday 8th October 2017:
Images from around Dublin, plus Thurles including:
* Abbey Street
* Busaras
* Connolly
* Howth
* Dun-Laoghaire
* Pearse
* Heuston

Wednesday 11th October 2017:
Just a single photograph from today with 22054 leaving Portlaoise for Heuston.

Thursday 12th October 2017:
A few from Ballybrophy, Portlaoise and Limerick today including the last Belmond Grand Hibernian of the season, 086 on a Portarlington to Limerick HOBS transfer and Limerick Station Cabin has been swept away.


Click http://smu.gs/2xBnqk0 to view all the images.

angelIRL

Morning,

One photo of the RPSI "Munster Double" railtour on approach to Cork yesterday:

]Rathpeacon

Finbarr

The_Wanderer

Evening folks,

Two updates have just been done to the website tonight.

The first update is to the October Gallery and features:

- Lunchtime at Clonkeen on Friday.
- Friday evening at Nenagh.
- Saturday morning at Stacumny Bridge.
- Institution of Railway Operators "Railway Operations Management" 2017 course launch for IE and NIR staff at Connolly.
- Sunday features photos from Pearse, Connolly and Thurles.

Click http://smu.gs/2ynsmuR to view.

The second update is pictures from the hugely successful Railway Preservation Society of Ireland "The Munster Double" railtour. This was the first ever railtour to feature a pair of 071 class locomotives operating in multiple! I was only able to join the tour in Mallow on the way back to Dublin due to a scheduling clash on the day, but before joining the tour I photographed it at Stacumny Bridge outside Dublin and I also arranged for family members to get some photos of the train arriving into Killarney.

Click http://smu.gs/2xGYqrz to view.

Salmon Leap

The_Wanderer wrote: »

Evening folks,

Two updates have just been done to the website tonight.

The first update is to the October Gallery and features:

- Lunchtime at Clonkeen on Friday.
- Friday evening at Nenagh.
- Saturday morning at Stacumny Bridge.
- Institution of Railway Operators "Railway Operations Management" 2017 course launch for IE and NIR staff at Connolly.
- Sunday features photos from Pearse, Connolly and Thurles.

Click http://smu.gs/2ynsmuR to view.

The second update is pictures from the hugely successful Railway Preservation Society of Ireland "The Munster Double" railtour. This was the first ever railtour to feature a pair of 071 class locomotives operating in multiple! I was only able to join the tour in Mallow on the way back to Dublin due to a scheduling clash on the day, but before joining the tour I photographed it at Stacumny Bridge outside Dublin and I also arranged for family members to get some photos of the train arriving into Killarney.

Click http://smu.gs/2xGYqrz to view.

Super shots as usual. THat was me at the other side of Stacumny Bridge on Saturday, if I'd known that was you I'd have popped over to say hello!

angelIRL

Afternoon all,

I've uploaded some photos taken over the last few days during at trip to the UK, travelling from London Paddington to Cardiff via Taunton: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/


London Paddington


Swindon


Newport (South Wales)

Finbarr

Jamie2k9

GWR offering additional services to passengers with the official launch of the fleet into service at Bristol

https://twitter.com/scott4sarah/status/919832041562279938

Sean9015

Hi All

I travelled on my first railtour since the infamous Court Chester last weekend, and was rewarded with a much better experience. The RPSI organised "The Munster Double", running from Dublin to Cork and Tralee, using multi-working 071s for the first scheduled time on a passenger train. Some shots from the trip here - to see the full gallery, please visit : https://midlanddeltic.smugmug.com/Trip-Sets-Ireland-Rail/2017/The-Munster-Double-Railtour-14-10-2017.

Before Departure


Departing Portarlington


Thurles Photostop


Cork Runround


Mallow Runround


Killarney

Farranfore


Tralee


Dublin Connolly


Enjoy!