Photo Thread.

Tabnabs

Did you hear the one about the female train driver... :eek:



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/15/cleaner-injured-train-building-stockholm

Victor

ThreeLineWhip wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture

It is part of that line.

It doesn't look like the most robust of railways.

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=Paris,+France&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.844299,2.408667&spn=0.003078,0.021136&sll=53.3834,-8.21775&sspn=6.672855,21.643066&oq=par&hnear=Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=48.844301,2.408662&panoid=yws1eRHzayFtxloUs3Ij3A&cbp=12,83.92,,0,2.92


Even on a main avenue, the headroom looks low. http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=Paris,+France&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.847166,2.40916&spn=0.006905,0.021136&sll=53.3834,-8.21775&sspn=6.672855,21.643066&oq=par&hnear=Paris,+%C3%8Ele-de-France,+France&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=48.847158,2.409326&panoid=yBHRd4v0vrGiuLRTUimkgw&cbp=12,63.99,,0,-3.83

Whither a cycle route - it might have issues with access from street level and tunnels. :cool:

dowlingm

dowlingm

Cookie_Monster

Those Queensland Rail poster are great

sporty56

Found these while looking through files for something else - reckon it's early 1984 not long before DARTs took over

Captain Chaos

sporty56 wrote: »

Found these while looking through files for something else - reckon it's early 1984 not long before DARTs took over

It's later than that. The IR logo came out in 1987. Also the 121s on Mk3 pushpulls were used on the Dublin suburban services from the early 1990s.

They are between 1990-1994 time frame. Great atmosphere in those snaps.

Sligo Quay

Thanks a mill to the smart arse who e-mailed me this link today http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/1409-Bell-Container-Ship Bell could have been saved with the right decision at the time

Cookie_Monster

sporty56 wrote: »

Found these while looking through files for something else - reckon it's early 1984 not long before DARTs took over

Those pretty much represents the highpoint for railways in Ireland IMO purely from variety and visual perspective. Proper trains with locomotives in proper orange livery working hard

dregin

Not the worst price in the world at all!

lord lucan

This great photograph made an appearance an Broadsheet.ie today. Says it's from the 1970's,anyone any info on the incident?

Eiretrains

lord lucan wrote: »

This great photograph made an appearance an Broadsheet.ie today. Says it's from the 1970's,anyone any info on the incident?

That's none other than a Jonathan M.Allen photo. He has been uploading some of his collection to the geograph website since his fotopic site went offline. Original link here with details of the derailment.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3244836

lord lucan

Eiretrains wrote: »

That's none other than a Jonathan M.Allen photo. He has been uploading some of his collection to the geograph website since his fotopic site went offline. Original link here with details of the derailment.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3244836

Fantastic stuff,he had an amazing archive of photo's from over the years when trains were interesting.

steamengine

Eiretrains wrote: »

That's none other than a Jonathan M.Allen photo. He has been uploading some of his collection to the geograph website since his fotopic site went offline. Original link here with details of the derailment.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3244836

There was another incident near that spot some years previously, where a GNR(I) tank engine ran the buffers on the siding next the engine shed in that shot and was left dangling precariously over the lower level by the canal. I remember it reached the papers ok., haven't seen that photo since !!!

Captain Chaos

steamengine wrote: »

There was another incident near that spot some years previously, where a GNR(I) tank engine ran the buffers on the siding next the engine shed in that shot and was left dangling precariously over the lower level by the canal. I remember it reached the papers ok., haven't seen that photo since !!!

You mean this one?




171 went off the end of the "wash road" at Connolly.

Captain Chaos

Captain Chaos wrote: »

171 went off the end of the "wash road" at Connolly.

You wouldn't have thought back then that 171 would end up being the last 141 in service.

Captain Chaos

Karsini wrote: »

You wouldn't have thought back then that 171 would end up being the last 141 in service.

Sure wouldn't.

I posted that line myself before on another forum almost word for word.

I'm trying to figure the track layout back then, how come the wash road stopped before the canal and not at East Wall junction like it does today. Was there no bridge for that track at the time?

Eiretrains

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Sure wouldn't.
I'm trying to figure the track layout back then, how come the wash road stopped before the canal and not at East Wall junction like it does today. Was there no bridge for that track at the time?

That's right, there was no third track into Amiens St at that time, only in the early 1980s in preparation for the DART was an extra track put in, this of course being the 'wash road' which has the washers on it for cleaning trains.
Before this, the track leading from the side of the locomotive shed was just a headshunt which B171 over-ran on that occasion. In that photo also is the disused line leading to the Dublin City Steam Packet company yard in the North Wall.

Captain Chaos

Eiretrains wrote: »

In that photo also is the disused line leading to the Dublin City Steam Packet company yard in the North Wall.

I think those tracks are still there today buried in the muck, they were never fully lifted?

steamengine

Captain Chaos, it was 1962 approx. I was passing by on the train on my way to school.

Captain Chaos

steamengine wrote: »

Captain Chaos, it was 1966 approx., I was passing by on the train on my way to school.

Ah,....I wasn't even a twinkle. Good times to have been around.

parsi

This was posted in twitter today by Waterford Museum, nice picture :

"Passenger train on the Ballyvoile Viaduct, Waterford / Mallow Railway Line, Ireland. c 25 March, 1967. http://t.co/odM9Okgr "

Judgement Day

steamengine wrote: »

Captain Chaos, it was 1962 approx. I was passing by on the train on my way to school.

You must be even older than me!

ThreeLineWhip

I was out walking the dog and noticed that a stairs has been installed beside an overbridge. What purpose does it serve as the PW staff have access from the other side of the bridge for their machines?

Gate preventing access


Finally the view North towards Ballybrophy:

101sean

We've put loads of them in for Network Rail and London Underground (I'm back in the UK for now) You can't have staff scrambling up and down banks to an access point. Even if there was an RRV access point nearby, that may have been use as an access point for years.

You need plenty of access or staff are wasting their time trekking when they could be working in a very short possession, could only be a couple of hours available (obviously not here when you have all the time in the world :rolleyes:)

Losty Dublin

steamengine wrote: »

Captain Chaos, it was 1962 approx. I was passing by on the train on my way to school.

Clue; it has 1972 written under the photo

steamengine

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Clue; it has 1972 written under the photo

As far as I can make out from the photo - it is the same spot where a GNR(i) tank engine pulled off the same stunt but not quite as successful as in that photo and I guess it was around 1962, as I'm relying on a somewhat dodgy memory.

Victor

Captain Chaos wrote: »

You mean this one?

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y14/Check6/6931074019_399d2ff40a_z.jpg


171 went off the end of the "wash road" at Connolly.

http://binged.it/Y7wBPP

parsi

ThreeLineWhip wrote: »

I was out walking the dog and noticed that a stairs has been installed beside an overbridge. What purpose does it serve as the PW staff have access from the other side of the bridge for their machines?

Gate preventing access


Finally the view North towards Ballybrophy:

No.3 is a dinger - top class !

csd

Taken yesterday

IMG_0436 by csd75, on Flickr