G601..Banteer/Kanturk/Newmarket

corktina

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/corktina/library/G601%20on%20the%20Kanturk%20Ndewmarket%20branch

these are the only 6 photos I can find on the 'net of G601 (assumed to be G601 in some cases) on the Banteer/Kanturk/Newmarket line

Anyone got any more?

The only other pics I have on this line are of special trains...anyone got any pics of ordinary service trains?

gobnaitolunacy

corktina wrote: »

The only other pics I have on this line are of special trains...anyone got any pics of ordinary service trains?

Railways Of Co Cork booklet (IRRS), has pics of Newmarket taken by Casserly? back in the 30's. Think it also has a pic of the GSR Sentinel railcar working the branch. Don't think it has any diesel action though.

corktina

ah yes, I have seen the railcar somewhere but don't have it. Not sure about the Casserley pics, I have seen a couple by Camwell in books. Photos were rare even in th sixties...

corktina

whats the loco?

Banteer station from the NLI O'Dea collection

gobnaitolunacy

Looks like either a green 'C' or an 'A', not clue what number could be, unless JP noted it down. Only way of finding out is going thru the rest of what he took on the day in NLI in the hope he took a few more at same location.
Not sure if A's were left across the Blackwater bridge, it may have been taking a breather from shunting or otherwise shoved into the NM platform out of the way.

Judgement Day

Some day you should venture up the IRRS library where there's an album with loads of pics of G601 on the branch. There's also a unique menu which came from the celebratory dinner held the day of the reopening back on June 1st 1956.

corktina

is that a tablet exchanger I can see?

The last loco on the branch was a C....I wonder if that was this occasion?

Temp101

Looking at the NLI site, the photo is of Messrs Horgan and Gravey and was taken on 15th July 1960. There is another photo listed for Banteer, same date, as A10 train failed.

corktina

Judgement Day wrote: »

Some day you should venture up the IRRS library where there's an album with loads of pics of G601 on the branch. There's also a unique menu which came from the celebratory dinner held the day of the reopening back on June 1st 1956.

I'd need to be a member I assume?

Judgement Day

corktina wrote: »

I'd need to be a member I assume?

Not as far as I know but you need a member to bring you in as friend - someone who knows the secret handshake.

Losty Dublin

corktina wrote: »

whats the loco?

Banteer station from the NLI O'Dea collection

According to a 2005 article in IRRS Journal 157 by the evergreen John O'Meara, the last train on the branch was C 227, brake van and 11 wagons. Chances are that this could be her in the photo. I should also mention that the same article mentions of very few specials on the line from the 50's onwards; this would explain a lack of photos of any unusual traffic on the line. An IRRS trip did make it down in 1959 hauled by a diesel; perhaps the photo came from that day as well?

Judgement Day

Richard Logue wrote: »

Not an accurate or truthful picture of the IRRS. I joined literally off the street at a public meeting in London.

It wasn't meant as anything more than a gentle poke at them! I was a member for 20 years and a regular attender of meetings and library nights, so I think I'm entitled to my opinion.

corktina

Losty Dublin wrote: »

According to a 2005 article in IRRS Journal 157 by the evergreen John O'Meara, the last train on the branch was C 227, brake van and 11 wagons. Chances are that this could be her in the photo. I should also mention that the same article mentions of very few specials on the line from the 50's onwards; this would explain a lack of photos of any unusual traffic on the line. An IRRS trip did make it down in 1959 hauled by a diesel; perhaps the photo came from that day as well?

seems the photo is 1960 and it looks like it is a failed A class.

I have photos of a steam hauled special in 1961 and the branch didn't shut until 1963. There was a series of specials from Newmarket to Banteer for the sports in the late 50s, some of which carried 700+ passengers, incredible as it seems now.

Eiretrains

This photo I find interesting, as it does not appear to be G601, but one of the later batch of Gs (in black/tan livery) delivered in 1962, so whatever one it is , it must have only had a short spell on the branch before it closed for good.

corktina

I think you are right, I believe I can see a vac pipe on the buffer beam. G601 was in black and tan though ....

might be JDs photo....not sure....retrospective permission to post please JD if it is :-)

gobnaitolunacy

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/I-B-Great-Southern-Railway-Ireland-Delivery-Note-Kanturk-1931-/360655348319?pt=UK_Stamps_ROWStamps&hash=item53f8bbe25f

corktina

yes, i saw this, 15 squid is too much though...might steal the picture though :-)