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dregin · 18-06-2013 11:17pm

https://m.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=620820221262851&id=100000046370433&set=gm.10151438454978204&relevant_count=1&__user=827843804

Bray train station in the 1950s.

Fred Swanson · 18-06-2013 11:20pm

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LEIN · 19-06-2013 10:33am

dregin wrote: »

https://m.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=620820221262851&id=100000046370433&set=gm.10151438454978204&relevant_count=1&__user=827843804

Bray train station in the 1950s.

You can't hotlink from a closed facebook page.

dregin · 19-06-2013 11:14am

It wasn't a hotlink. Using mobile, I couldn't get the direct link to the image. Job done anyway. Thanks!

davidlacey · 19-06-2013 3:26pm

Bray hasnt changed an awful lot

steamengine · 19-06-2013 4:12pm

A few pics from Bray - taken last year, note the water crane above is still there, just south of the footbridge !!!

Reflections on a DART

flyingsnail · 22-06-2013 12:37pm

From the Irish defense forces twitter

Navy Vessel LÉ ORLA passing the Barrow Bridge enroute #NewRoss with Emigrant Flame @JFK50yrs

http://ow.ly/i/2qdxl/original

Fred Swanson · 22-06-2013 2:50pm

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Grandeeod · 22-06-2013 11:37pm

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Nice photo though! As for the public money thing, we could go on all night about it. But from a railway point of view the shot is nice. Pity the line is closed and some rail enthusiasts justify it while the WRC eats up subvention. Such is life.:rolleyes:

Cookie_Monster · 23-06-2013 9:44am

Fred Swanson wrote: »

What a waste of public money!

What, the ship or the 100 year old bridge?

purplepanda · 23-06-2013 11:33am

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Question is does it bring more revenue into the area from visitors & tourists than the cost spent from the public purse?

Opening the Barrow Bridge & the cost of the Naval service are covered by annual defence & transport spending budgets so shouldn't be counted. IMO.

Losty Dublin · 23-06-2013 4:22pm

purplepanda wrote: »

Question is does it bring more revenue into the area from visitors & tourists than the cost spent from the public purse?

Opening the Barrow Bridge & the cost of the Naval service are covered by annual defence & transport spending budgets so shouldn't be counted. IMO.

Marine traffic that requires the bridge opened aren't charged for it.

Fred Swanson · 23-06-2013 4:24pm

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LEIN · 24-06-2013 3:59pm

DD9090 wrote: »

Nicked from Facebook.

Kilbarrack/Howth Junction 1981

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/931363_382891348488793_514146525_n.jpg

Here's another Kilbarrack/Howth Junction.

No date this time though.

Eiretrains · 24-06-2013 4:03pm

DD9090 wrote: »

Here's another Kilbarrack/Howth Junction.

Saturday, 9 August, 1975, from Jonathan M Allen.;)
http://www.geograph.ie/photo/2362225

dowlingm · 28-06-2013 5:38pm

Six Alstom Coradia Lint EuroDMUs (as opposed to FRA Compliant, since this route will be operated on a heavy rail line but not while FRA traffic is permitted to use it) en route to Ottawa to join three existing Talent 1s on the O-Train service. (EDIT: Source)

EDIT2: Cab picture (Source)

The_Wanderer · 29-06-2013 5:39pm

Good evening,

On Friday 28th June Hansfield Station opened for business after standing idle for three years due to the lack of an access road to the station.

The Station is served by 24 trains towards Clonsilla / City Centre and 21 trains from City Centre / Clonsilla Monday to Friday. On Saturday's the service is a shuttle all day to/from Clonsilla with 16 services to Clonsilla and 17 services from Clonsilla. A similar pattern exists on Sunday with 13 services to Clonsilla and 12 services from Clonsilla.

The station was officially opened by Leo Varadkar T.D. Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport who is a local T.D. in the area.

Pictures of the opening are now online at http://smu.gs/10rn7EO

Pictures from the rest of Friday are at http://smu.gs/10rnYoX and include:
- LUAS Red Line services being delayed at Benburb Street due to the emergency services attending an incident.
- LUAS Trams in the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in Dublin's Docklands.
- Docklands Station which is served in Peak Hours only to/from M3 Parkway.
- M3 Parkway.
- Connolly.
- Skerries to see the afternoon Tara Mines trains (071 & 086), plus the 1235 Enterprise from Belfast, local Commuter services and empty ICR's from Drogheda Depot.
- 8100 Class EMU's at Tara Street.
- Heuston Station.

Enjoy,
The Wanderer.

Grandeeod · 29-06-2013 10:13pm

Going back in time. The photo below is a view from the Blessington steam tram at the Embankment.

Blessinton Steam Tram.jpg

We had an early one from Howth Junction already. The one below seems to show the building of that ugly pedestrian bridge across the line in the vicinity.

Howth Junction.jpg

dregin · 30-06-2013 7:26pm

Taken from the "Dublin Down Memory Lane" facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dublindown/?hc_location=stream

The_Wanderer · 30-06-2013 8:43pm

Evening folks,

Just a couple of pictures from around Portarlington & Monastervin on Sunday afternoon. Includes a picture of 22063 being hauled dead back to Laois Traincare Depot by 22001 after it struck and killed a women at Adamstown in the early hours of Sunday morning.
http://smu.gs/14GMJNz

The Wanderer.

angelIRL · 30-06-2013 10:38pm

Evening all,

I've added a few updates from this weekend:

Includes:
- Quagmire Viaduct
- 077 in new IÉ livery at Mallow with HOBS
- Mallow railway station
- Cobh
- Scanned photos of the 2013 weedsprayer across the South Wexford Line taken by my brother

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

F.

The_Wanderer · 01-07-2013 9:02pm

A trip to Carn on the way home to see the 1700 Heuston - Cork (218 + 4005) & 1705 Heuston - Tralee (22037).
http://smu.gs/12ChjEO

The Wanderer.

Grandeeod · 01-07-2013 9:08pm

dregin wrote: »

Taken from the "Dublin Down Memory Lane" facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dublindown/?hc_location=stream

I'm raiding the same FB page! That's a cracking shot.

Grandeeod · 01-07-2013 9:15pm

dregin wrote: »

Taken from the "Dublin Down Memory Lane" facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dublindown/?hc_location=stream

And here's the same view today.

Blessinton Steam Tram route today.jpg

corktina · 01-07-2013 9:48pm

similar buildings, but with significant differences.....

gobnaitolunacy · 02-07-2013 8:28am

Was that mock Tudor building only being completed at the time?
Looks unfinished with no fence and what looks like builders rubble strewn around?

dregin · 02-07-2013 10:15am

Grandeeod wrote: »

I'm raiding the same FB page! That's a cracking shot.

That group is absolutely brilliant. The amount of old pictures and newspaper scans appearing on it is pretty astonishing!

Victor · 02-07-2013 7:36pm

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Was that mock Tudor building only being completed at the time?

We weren't around then.

Looks unfinished with no fence and what looks like builders rubble strewn around?

I think the fence was only done when the tramway closed and it was converted to the front gardens.

This is the location: http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,709347,727659,7,9

dregin · 04-07-2013 12:27pm

That tram could only go as far as Terenure and the passengers had to transfer to an electric one there since steam trams were banned in the city centre.

The_Wanderer · 06-07-2013 3:26pm

A day of mixed fortunes in the Sunny South East. After travelling to Wexford in the morning to photograph the Panel Train from Wexford to Portlaoise, it turned out it was cancelled due to no driver being available. Several cars were reported to have done U Turns on the N11 Dublin - Wexford Road after the news broke.

As I knew the 1130 Waterford - Westport Ety. Timber was operating and the original plan to get it near Waterford now impossible due to lack of time, plan B was put into action. Up to Enniscorthy, perfectly timing it to photograph the 0940 Connolly - Rosslare Europort passenger and then cross country via the R702 and L3001 roads to Muine Bheag and I arrived at Fenniscourt with only minutes to spare for the nice surprise of 209 on the timber. A good end to the day.
http://smu.gs/10FBEgb

Enjoy!
The Wanderer.

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