Two random photos

corktina · 10-12-2011 8:20pm #1

tell me what they are!

lord lucan · 10-12-2011 8:41pm

Carrick on Suir is #1,#2 looks like North Wall.

steamengine · 10-12-2011 9:19pm

ex GNR 171 at Carrick on Suir and an A class near Cork docks.

lord lucan · 10-12-2011 9:45pm

I think Steamengine read the question better than i.:p

171 on an RPSI tour at Carrick on Suir(never noticed the sign,only the ITG shed:o),have no idea what tour though.

I'm not sure of the location of the second now,looks like it could be the Ammonia train which would place it at either Cork or Shelton Abbey.

corktina · 10-12-2011 9:54pm

im a bit mystified by the second one...could it be the freight lines behind Kent station? I think its actually a container train rather than Ammonia.

lord lucan · 10-12-2011 9:58pm

The tank wagon behind the A class looks like the barrier tank they used on the ammonia trains,one at either end.

steamengine · 10-12-2011 10:01pm

corktina wrote: »

im a bit mystified by the second one...could it be the freight lines behind Kent station? I think its actually a container train rather than Ammonia.

Cork docks/behind Kent - looks like Hall's grain silo in the background. Not sure though.

roundymac · 10-12-2011 11:04pm

Spot on, Steamengine.

Cookie_Monster · 10-12-2011 11:17pm

that's the barrier wagon for the ammonia train behind the a class.

corktina · 11-12-2011 11:19am

im glad I took the photo. I wish we had had digital back in those days. I used to take so few photos due to the expense of developing. I'll see if I can find a few more.

Run_to_da_hills · 12-12-2011 12:43am

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

that's the barrier wagon for the ammonia train behind the a class.

This was the most frightening looking carriage of all the amonia train that use to pass by my parents back garden every night, it was only years after it finished that I was told it only contained water.

corktina · 12-12-2011 11:51am

two for the price of one

lord lucan · 12-12-2011 12:05pm

Great pic Corktina. 2 excellent loco's on show,461 and 85 Merlin at Limerick Junction. Must be early 90's,not long after 461 returned to traffic and before 85 retired from duty.

corktina · 12-12-2011 12:21pm

working hard

corktina · 12-12-2011 12:23pm

JD will know where this is :-(

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Cookie_Monster · 12-12-2011 1:02pm

Got any more with something more interesting than kettles?

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Judgement Day · 12-12-2011 3:03pm

corktina wrote: »

Real trains on a real railway!

Victor · 18-12-2011 10:51pm

corktina wrote: »

http://i39.tinypic.com/15wkk1e.jpg

tell me what they are!

It is Cork, because you can see the chimney of the Marina Power Station in the background.

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=horgans+quay,+cork&hl=en&ll=51.901771,-8.450477&spn=0.000779,0.002411&sll=53.401034,-8.307638&sspn=6.172386,19.753418&vpsrc=6&hnear=Horgan%27s+Quay,+Cork,+County+Cork&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.901737,-8.450673&panoid=SvEx4B8XHAos7EoHTo8Wnw&cbp=12,111.65,,1,-8.27

The lack of the second chimney (the gas powered plant) would date the photo to before about 1980.

corktina · 19-12-2011 9:18am

its quite likely to be 1979, my first visit to Ireland.

I came over with my new fiance to meet the family (pissed for a week but thats another story!) Asked herself if there were any steam engines in Ireland to be told no, only to find no 90 in Mallow and number 36 in Cork on my first day!I thought there must be a loco preseerved on every station !

Mallow and Cork (and everywhere else no doubt) were just fabulous in 1979, original layout and signalling and really intersting trains still

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