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The first fully refreshed 22000 set was completed on Thursday 25th April 2019 at Connolly Valeting Plant with the set entering traffic on Friday 26th April 2019.
While sets 22003 - 22010 and 22050 have gone through the refresh program since last October, they didn't receive the new leather seat covers. The first set to receive these is 22046 and this marks the first set to be fully completed in the project. The sets completed earlier in the program will be retrofitted with the new seat covers at a later date.
The scope of work on refreshing the sets after 11 years of intensive use includes:
• The lower panels underneath the windows have been replaced with lamigraf material.
• The armrests have been changed to match the new leather seat covers.
• The seat grabhandles have been repainted grey.
• Fitting of USB Sockets on the train with two sockets for each pair of seats.
• Fitting of new leather seat covers throughout the train.
• Fitting of blue colour doors to the A3 vehicle with bicycle and wheelchair symbols.
Click https://bit.ly/2Vu7bp0 to view the images.
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Afternoon all,
some photographs taken during a recent BritRail trip: https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/albums/72157706564562091
67007 Moy
43191 Taunton
Teignmouth
Also, two photographs taken recently in Ireland:
220 Limerick Junction
231 Kilmallock
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I like the seat covers, certionally better than the ones they tested on 38. Will be easier to clean as well. I hope the poor finish on the blue doors (pic 162) is addressed. Paint or Sticker, latter would explain it.
I think an external refresh should take place, nothing wrong with current livery but a refresh would be good.
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Evening folks,
Pictures from Friday and Saturday have now been uploaded to the April gallery featuring the following locations:
Cork line:
* Portlaoise
* Heuston
* Milltown (Co. Tipperary)
Nenagh Branch
* Nenagh
* Cappadine
* Knockanpierce
Click https://bit.ly/2PvPoby to view.
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The May gallery starts off with:
Wednesday 1st May 2019:
We start off the May gallery with pictures from:
M3 Parkway,
Kildare,
Waterford,
Limerick Jct.,
Thurles.
Includes images of the refreshed set 22046.
Thursday 2nd May:
Today's images come from:
Portlaoise,
Heuston,
Inchicore - 072 leaving Inchicore on a HOBS and the CME Golden Spanner Awards.
Parkwest & Cherry Orchard,
Drumcondra - 234 passing on the IWT Liner.
Click the image below to view them all.
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Afternoon folks,
The latest update to the May gallery features:
Saturday 4th May 2019:
A varied selection of images today in the Limerick area with pictures from:
- Nenagh.
- Cappadine.
- Lisnagry.
- Limerick.
- A tour of the LÉ Eithne (P31) in Limerick Docks and images of the River Shannon and Abbey River in the city.
Click https://bit.ly/2VNHIXH to view.
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Evening folks,
The latest update is one of my occasional features about disused railways, the latest update features the Silvermines Branch & Kilmastulla Siding in North Tipperary on the Limerick to Ballybrophy railway.
The first to open was the 1 1/4 mile spur to Silvermines in 1966 to serve a barytes mine. The mine and branch closed in 1993.
The second freight spur opened in October 1982 to serve a shale quarry at Kilmastulla. With the opening of the M7 motorway this traffic ended suddenly in December 2009 and the wagons are now stored at Limerick with Kilmastulla Siding now disused since that date.
Click https://bit.ly/2H9Kmz1 to view all the images.
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Morning folks,
I'm over in London for the weekend and the first batch of pictures have now been uploaded to https://bit.ly/2vT3Pxe
Pictures come from:
- Shannon Airport.
- Gatwick Airport.
- East and West Croydon.
- Carshalton Beeches.
- Clapham Jct.
- Twickenham.
- Whitton.
- Winsdor and Eton Riverside, Central and the Castle.
- Slough.
- Paddington.
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Evening folks,
Just under 100 photographs have just been uploaded to the website featuring Saturday's travels around London and the South East.
Click https://bit.ly/2PYDXJL to view them all.
The main event of my day was the IRO lecture in a hotel near Euston. But an early finish allowed for some extending travelling afterwards. Pictures from today feature:
- Carshalton Beeches
- Norwood Jct.
- Penge West.
- Penge East.
- Sydenham Hill - to capture Hastings DEMU 1001 passing the station on a railtour.
- London Victoria.
- London Euston.
- Great Portland Street.
- Regents Park.
- London Paddington.
- Swindon - to travel back to London on one of the last long distance HST sets in service with GWR. End of an era. The last HST will leave Paddington on the 18th May.
- St. Pancras.
- Bedford.
- Bletchley - travelled on the former London Underground D Stock in its new guise as a Class 230 on the National Network on the Marston Vale line.
- Euston.
- London Bridge.
Click https://bit.ly/2PYDXJL to view them all.
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Evening folks,
The final batch of images from my weekend trip to London have now been uploaded to https://bit.ly/30gHsjy
After Saturday's unexpected trip to Swindon and the Marston Vale line, Sunday was a more local affair with images from:
- Carshalton Beeches.
- Sutton
- West Sutton.
- Epsom.
- Ashtead.
- Gatwick Airport.
- Shannon.
To view the collection from the start take a look at https://bit.ly/2vT3Pxe
Highlights include:
My final run on a traditional length GWR HST from Swindon to London. Some sets are being retained for West of England operation in 2+4 format.
Hastings DEMU 1001 on a railtour.
Former London Underground D Stock train in its new life on the Marston Vale line between Bedford and Bletchley.
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Cookie_Monster wrote: »Not a picture as such but what's the story behind this carriage?
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3388209,-6.3352547,65a,35y,180h,39.59t/data=!3m1!1e3
Testing a livery, I would guess.
Good find, BTW
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Evening folks,
A few images from the past few days:
Monday 13th May 2019:
Just two images from today at a sunny Portlaoise of the 1425 Cork - Heuston passing the station.
Tuesday 14th May 2019:
Pictures of 216 and the Belmond Grand Hibernian at Rosskelton and Thurles.
Thursday 16th May 2019:
A lunchtime trip to Clonkeen outside Portlaoise to photo the 1300 Heuston - Cork and 1225 Cork - Heuston.
Click https://bit.ly/2W6aCmc to view.
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The highlight from today was the visit of the Belmond Grand Hibernian to the Western Rail Corridor between Limerick and Athenry. Pictures of the train come from Ballycar Lough and Ennis. At Ennis once the guests had disembarked the train was shunted to allow for the waste tanks to be discharged. While heading back to Limerick I popped into Sixmilebridge to view the 1230 Limerick - Ennis. Later in the afternoon features a few images from Limerick.
Click https://bit.ly/2LRXkpv to view all the pictures.
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Branch Line Society: The Cork Stopper - Sunday 19th May 2019
On Sunday 19th May 2019, the Branch Line Society in conjunction with Iarnrod Eireann operated a charity railtour, raising money for the Railway Children charity. The railtour traversed crossovers, rarely used platforms and sidings with a lunch break at Tralee.
Highlights of this tour include the Cork station avoiding line, the remains of the former line to Youghal at Midleton (and the rarely used non-preferred platform), Killarney avoiding line, engineer's sidings at Cobh / Banteer / Rathmore, and a number of other crossovers / little used platforms particularly Tralee P2. The Society is indebted to Jim Meade, Chief Executive and Brian O'Meara, Train Planning and Performance Manager of Irish Rail for their dedication in supporting this project.
The train was formed by the mainstay of the Cork Commuter fleet, a 2600 Class unit formed of 2605 + 2616 which is recently ex-works.
Click https://bit.ly/2YzVIlu to view all the images plus a full description of all the crossovers, rarely used platforms and sidings.
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Evening folks,
Pictures from this week so far:
Sunday 19th May 2019:
Pictures from Cork and Tralee during the Branch Line Society "The Cork Stopper" tour.
Wednesday 22nd May 2019:
Today's pictures come from around the Belfast area with photos from Lanyon Place, Yorkgate and City Hospital.
Click https://bit.ly/2VDH232 to view.
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Evening folks,
A few pictures from the past couple of days.
Friday 24th May 2019:
Two images from Portlaoise station today of 217 arriving with the 1400 Heuston - Cork.
Monday 27th May 2019:
Images of Tamper 743 passing Portlaoise and at Balllybrophy while changing to the Nenagh Branch train.
Click https://bit.ly/2EF4OpJ to view.
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Evening folks,
A few images from Templemore this evening with the 1650 Heuston - Cork Spl, 1700 Heuston - Cork and 1625 Cork - Heuston.
Click https://bit.ly/2Xfiyin to view.
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The_Wanderer wrote: »Evening folks,
A few images from Templemore this evening with the 1650 Heuston - Cork Spl, 1700 Heuston - Cork and 1625 Cork - Heuston.
Click https://bit.ly/2Xfiyin to view.
Are they still replacing the front ends on them, sure they get damaged a lot (such as this pic) and make progress appears very slow but this feels this started a long time ago.0 -
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Over the Irish June Bank Holiday weekend, a group of us travelled to Manchester for two nights to soak up the atmosphere in the city.
On the Saturday, a smaller group of us visited Liverpool to experience the atmosphere in the city in the run up to the Champions League Final later that day in Madrid between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.
On the Sunday we headed back to Holyhead to catch the ferry back to Ireland.
Click https://bit.ly/2QSRMts to view all the pictures.
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