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Two random photos

  • 10-12-2011 7:20pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭


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    tell me what they are!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    Spot on, Steamengine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,565 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    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. :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    two for the price of one

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    working hard

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    JD will know where this is :-(

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,565 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Got any more with something more interesting than kettles? :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    corktina wrote: »
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    Real trains on a real railway! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,261 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Back in the day, Cork was the biggest box in Ireland and was arguably the hardest to work in the country as it controled the huge yard and the infinite movements around it. I heard of a guy who was sent from Dublin to relieve it for a week (Lord knows who he pissed off!) and on his first night he got distracted with the oft ringing phone and sent an ex Dublin passenger train into the back line behind the platform shed. Back then there was a local shunting rule that required a man to flag the train out if it was shunting the tunnel but because there wasn't a spare man free and departing services the train spent 2 hours before it could be freed and the passengers detrained :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    DSC09928.JPG - December 2010 view from platform 4 across platform 5 to the south docks.

    DSC09942.JPG - December 2010 view of platform 4, with the ramp to platform 5. Note the sharp curve to the left - this results in quite a gap between train doors and the platform edge. Most Cork-Dublin-Cork services use platform 4, leaving platform 5 free for Cobh-Mallow services, although there are few of these since the reduction in Cork-Mallow services. Here, the queues for platforms 4 and 5 have become merged and muddled, due to the late boarding of the departure to Dublin.

    DSC02489.JPG - The canopy at the front of the station, where many a Bus Éireann driver has tried to re-integrate bus and rail services by striking the canopy. Across the road, behind and above the B&B is the defunct alignment of the original line to Youghal.

    DSC02490.JPG - The refurbished main concourse, with the platforms ahead and to the left.

    DSC02491.JPG - Platforms 1, 2, 3, ?? and 4. Platforms 1-3 and the stub platform between Platforms 3 and 4 are terminal platforms that serve Cobh and Midleton (and previously Youghal). Platforms 4 and 5 are through platforms. In practice, only 3 platforms are needed, a fourth at most a few times per week). The line to Cobh / Midleton continues into the distance at the base of the ridge of hills to the left.

    DSC02493.JPG - The stub platform between Platforms 3 and 4, purpose unknown. There is no track here now, only loose track panels. On the right is the running shed, which has been extended at various points in its life. Above it are the (disused) Irish Rail / Irish Cement silo, transmission pylons and chimneys at Marina Power station.

    DSC02492.JPG – More of the shed, with various grain silos on the south docks in the background.

    DSC02494.JPG – Grain silos, the Odlum’s building and the MV Julia (Fastnet Line)

    DSC02495.JPG – 201-class locomotive 215, preparing to push its train to Dublin.

    DSC02496.JPG – Close up of the shed, with another 201-class in the centre and a pair of 2600(?)-class commuter trains. Note the new livery on the one on the right.

    DSC02499.JPG - A pair of 2600-class commuter trains are present with 2603 preparing to depart for Cobh at platform 3 and 2609 in a siding beyond platform 1. Again, note the sharp curve in the platforms. Only the straight sections of platforms 1-3 are now used, meaning the track and platform can be properly aligned, reducing the gap.

    DSC02503.JPG – Looking from the covered section of platform 4 into the main train hall. Platform 5 to the left, platform 4 in the centre and the concourse to the right. One wonders if this view will be replaced with ticket barriers at some point in the future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    More


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    And the rest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    well done Victor. No evidence of the bit I was earlier talking about. Major rebuildiong done there at some time.

    (MV Julia in the background...erstwhile Swansea Cork ship.)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    corktina wrote: »
    well done Victor. No evidence of the bit I was earlier talking about. Major rebuildiong done there at some time.

    (MV Julia in the background...erstwhile Swansea Cork ship.)

    Yes there is Corktina. Picture number 5, if you look to the right of the number 3 platform sign you will see the end of the platform where the ramp begins. The buffer stop for the bay you were talking about was just forward of the ramp. Unless you and I are talking about two differt things.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    corktina wrote: »
    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


    I always assumed you were from Ireland:confused::confused::confused:. Do you mind me asking......?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    newmug wrote: »
    I always assumed you were from Ireland:confused::confused::confused:. Do you mind me asking......?

    I take that as a complement/

    Im here 25 years as of this month and I love Ireland almost as much as the Natives do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    But Where?

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    As far as I seen the line is only used a few times per day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Jehuty42


    That's very easy, it's the line from Drogheda to Navan.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    Jehuty42 wrote: »
    That's very easy, it's the line from Drogheda to Navan.

    Wow. I cant believe ye got that so easy.

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    I will have to take more difficult pics next week.


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