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The_Wanderer · 02-03-2021 5:22pm

Afternoon all,

The March gallery kicks off with some images from the Nenagh branch today.

Tuesday 2nd March 2021:
On Tuesday 2nd March 2021, a CWR train operated over the Nenagh Branch to drop strings of rails between the 25 1/2 & 26 1/2 MP for forthcoming relaying works.

Click https://bit.ly/3rgcRje or the image below to view.

tabbey · 02-03-2021 11:57pm

Are the rails second hand from a main line? Or perhaps new?
What weight (kg per metre)
078 looks great, it seems a waste of a main line loco, we should have got a small number of lighter locos for permanent way work

Del.Monte · 03-03-2021 12:36am

tabbey wrote: »

Are the rails second hand from a main line? Or perhaps new?
What weight (kg per metre)
078 looks great, it seems a waste of a main line loco, we should have got a small number of lighter locos for permanent way work

Or perhaps the 141s and 181s were scrapped prematurely - CIE's speciality.

tabbey · 03-03-2021 11:10am

Del.Monte wrote: »

Or perhaps the 141s and 181s were scrapped prematurely - CIE's speciality.

Some truth in that, but they would be approaching sixty years old now and all good things expire sometime.

Del.Monte · 03-03-2021 11:30am

tabbey wrote: »

Some truth in that, but they would be approaching sixty years old now and all good things expire sometime.

Yet there's 146 which is operational at Downpatrick. If volunteers can keep a 60 year old diesel going surely CIE with the resources of the State and Inchicore Works can? But, no, much easier to scrap and go cap-in-hand looking for more money from the State coffers. :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnKbuRhpHXw

tabbey · 03-03-2021 12:01pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

Yet there's 146 which is operational at Downpatrick. If volunteers can keep a 60 year old diesel going surely CIE with the resources of the State and Inchicore Works can? But, no, much easier to scrap and go cap-in-hand looking for more money from the State coffers. :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnKbuRhpHXw

Indeed. Funnily enough, the I T G only moved their fleet out of inchicore because I R claimed to have no space when the I C R fleet was being delivered.
With railcars being based at Drogheda and portlaoise, Inchicore is an ideal location for a railway museum.
Every other country has a transport museum. Ireland has a high rate of income, at least on paper, yet successive governments have not been arsed to preserve our rail heritage. Please forgive my vernacular.

The_Wanderer · 16-03-2021 9:55pm

A small update to the website this evening with pictures of the CWR train on the Nenagh Branch today.

083 paid a visit to the Nenagh Branch with the CWR train to drop another mile of rail strings between the 24 1/2 & 25 1/2 Mile Post on Tuesday 16th March.
The operation was similar to two weeks ago with the train dropping the strings and then going to Limerick to runaround and then returned to Portlaoise PWD depot via Thurles.

Click https://bit.ly/30OT1Qf to view all the images.

The_Wanderer · 20-03-2021 7:57pm

Ten photos from the past several days have recently been uploaded to the March gallery at https://bit.ly/3vKNzfC

Wednesday 18th March 2021:
I called into Roscrea Station to see the recent work carried out with the relaying of the loop and siding. Also from that day, I pictured 22027 passing Portlaoise with the 1700 Heuston - Cork.

Thursday 18th March 2021:
Just one picture of 22059 passing Oldforge outside Killarney with the 1705 Tralee - Cork.

Friday 19th March 2021:
While on a trip to Cork to bring a family member to a medical appointment, I got some photos at Mytrlehill and The Glen in Cork featuring 2600's and 22000's passing.

tabbey · 20-03-2021 10:14pm

Lovely.
Roscrea has to be one of my favourite stations, apart from the stink from the meat rendering plant. It's good to see the relaid loop is a substantial length.

Lewis_Benson · 25-03-2021 6:30pm

Is Semaphore signalling still in use there?

General Toilet · 25-03-2021 6:51pm

Yes.

Lewis_Benson · 26-03-2021 2:23pm

Wow, that cool.
I didn't think there was any left on the network.

The_Wanderer · 27-03-2021 2:14pm

Lewis_Benson wrote: »

Wow, that cool.
I didn't think there was any left on the network.

The Nenagh Branch and Tipperary - Waterford West Cabin are controlled by Semaphores. Some level crossings on both routes are protected by color light signals though.

01-04-2021 2:24pm

Prospect Hill Tunnel Galway
Wasn't sure where to post it so this will do. This website has a few nice photos of the tunnel mouth at the station end. First decent photos I've seen. Also says the hotel development is to incorporate it into the design somehow so it might be possible to view it in the future.

https://www.castlegar-galway.org/galway-clifden-railway-line

Eiretrains · 03-04-2021 7:42pm

Another archive film presentation on Irish Railways, featuring scenes of CIÉ mainline and branch line operations during the 1960s and 1970s.

The_Wanderer · 11-04-2021 8:28pm

Evening folks,

A late start to the April gallery due to no travel, but I've managed to grab some images over the past few days.

Thursday 8th April 2021:
A few images of Nenagh Station from the air while trying out a new drone purchase.

Sunday 11th April 2021:
While in Killarney for essential reasons, I ventured out to Yellow Quarry Level Crossing on the outskirts of the town to photograph the 1725 Mallow - Tralee and 1750 Tralee - Heuston.

Click https://bit.ly/2RvGm3z to view all of the images.

The_Wanderer · 12-04-2021 7:08pm

Another update to the April gallery today with a selection of images from between Mallow and Millstreet.

After an early morning essential trip to Cork City to bring a family member to an medical appointment, I returned to Killarney via Mallow and managed to get some photographs along the way, highlight being 222 hauling MKIV Set 4003 on the 0700 Heuston - Cork crossing the Viaduct in Mallow.

Click https://bit.ly/3s94eX7 to view all the images.

The_Wanderer · 15-04-2021 9:52pm

The latest update to the April gallery.

Wednesday 14th April 2021:
A few images from around the Killarney area, including Quagmire Viaduct of the 3ICR sets on the Mallow - Tralee services.
Click the image below to view all the pictures.

Itssoeasy · 17-04-2021 10:28pm

I haven’t gotten a photo but I plan to get one tomorrow but I went for walk down by the train station in cork city this evening and I walked down the railway steps that cross over the old youghal line on top of the tunnel. Now I’ve walked down those steps hundreds of times and looked at that track bed hundreds of times I looked to my left today and noticed in the brickwork cut into the rock where the tunnel emerges from into the station there’s what looks like another tunnel opening above the one the line runs through. Does anyone know what it is exactly ? I’ve never in all my years seen it.

The_Wanderer · 23-04-2021 8:59pm

With another sunny day and a set of 2600's on the Tralee line replacing a failed 22000, it was too good an opportunity not to slip out for some photos of them around Killarney working the 1125 & 1525 Mallow - Tralee services.

Click https://bit.ly/3nhGLC8 or the image below to view all the images.

The Black Oil · 24-04-2021 10:01am

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/NetworkRailSE/status/1385494401158459393

The_Wanderer · 29-04-2021 7:36pm

Evening folks,

Two small updates to the website this evening.

First of all the April gallery has had an updates with images from Leixlip Confey last Saturday, supplied by a contributor. Plus some images of the fire in Killarney National Park on Sunday. Click https://bit.ly/3vvdo2c to view.

The second update is some photos / video of the North Kerry Line around Barnagh Gap. Click https://bit.ly/2QyS5OJ to view.

tabbey · 30-04-2021 9:55am

The_Wanderer wrote: »

Evening folks,

Two small updates to the website this evening.

First of all the April gallery has had an updates with images from Leixlip Confey last Saturday, supplied by a contributor. Plus some images of the fire in Killarney National Park on Sunday. Click https://bit.ly/3vvdo2c to view.

The second update is some photos / video of the North Kerry Line around Barnagh Gap. Click https://bit.ly/2QyS5OJ to view.

Lots of green, maybe we should have a saint Patrick festival in may this year, much better than march, both for the weather and the green, not to mention the photography.

L1011 · 30-04-2021 4:55pm

tabbey wrote: »

Lots of green, maybe we should have a saint Patrick festival in may this year, much better than march, both for the weather and the green, not to mention the photography.

Been there done that - 2001 due to Foot and Mouth

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0418/782638-st-patricks-day-in-may/

The_Wanderer · 01-05-2021 7:45pm

Evening folks,

The latest updates to the website covers April and May following a busy 24 hours where I had to return from Kerry to Tipperary, then to Cork and back to Kerry, all trips were classified as essential travel for medical / care reasons. Roll on the 10th of May!

Friday 3oth April 2021:
The last day of April has pictures of 22009 working one of the Mallow - Tralee diagrams at Stagmount and Killarney, plus the new decision support system that has recently been installed at Stagmount Crossing to aid users. Click https://bit.ly/3tj0NxT to view.

Saturday 1st May 2021:
Pictures from Thurles and Cork while heading to "The Real Capital", then on the way back to Killarney by road I captured 22059 at Minish Level Crossing working the 1705 Tralee - Cork. Click https://bit.ly/3e85LJ7 to view.

The_Wanderer · 02-05-2021 7:48pm

Sunday 2nd May 2021:
Sunday's on the Tralee line are the most interesting with three daytime Tralee - Heuston and two Heuston - Tralee through services, compared to the weekday single through service each way. On a normal Sunday the route also sees several 2600 Class workings but due to the temporary timetable in operation today this wasn't the case. Pictures from today come from a variety of places between Tralee and Rathmore.

Click https://bit.ly/3uiYz2Q to view.

Jamie2k9 · 02-05-2021 9:44pm

Killarney has done well to escape the cost cutting! Replaced loop for prehaps a RPSI service once a year now that Belmond is gone.

Hopefully the hedge cutters don't destroy the line when they get round to it.

The_Wanderer · 02-05-2021 10:44pm

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Killarney has done well to escape the cost cutting! Replaced loop for prehaps a RPSI service once a year now that Belmond is gone.

Hopefully the hedge cutters don't destroy the line when they get round to it.

Really?

Casts my mind back to the late 1990's when the freight yard was closed so a barely successful (even to this day) Outlet Centre could be built on the site.

I went to Andorra on a School trip on Saturday 10th January 1998 (087 2 Cravens + Dutch Van to Mallow for anybody interested!), returning on the following Friday (in snack car 1508 on the FO 1335 Heuston - Tralee, can't remember the loco) to find the freight yard a construction site.

So Killarney hasn't escaped the cost cutting! The track in the yard was pretty much rotten when it went in, in 1998 so it's good to see it renewed. The RPSI will be back, and maybe the odd football special as well!

The_Wanderer · 07-05-2021 2:00pm

Afternoon folks,

A few updates to the website from this week.

The May gallery sees 22044 passing Minish with the 1105 Tralee - Mallow on Tuesday of this week. Click https://bit.ly/3uxXAM8 to view.

The Valentia Harbour Branch gallery has gotten an update for the first time in just under four years with new images and video of the Laune Viaduct in Killorglin. Click https://bit.ly/3erDFc1 to view.

Both galleries can also be accessed from the home page at www.thewandererphotos.com

Jamie2k9 · 08-05-2021 1:46pm

The_Wanderer wrote: »

Really?

Casts my mind back to the late 1990's when the freight yard was closed so a barely successful (even to this day) Outlet Centre could be built on the site.

I went to Andorra on a School trip on Saturday 10th January 1998 (087 2 Cravens + Dutch Van to Mallow for anybody interested!), returning on the following Friday (in snack car 1508 on the FO 1335 Heuston - Tralee, can't remember the loco) to find the freight yard a construction site.

So Killarney hasn't escaped the cost cutting! The track in the yard was pretty much rotten when it went in, in 1998 so it's good to see it renewed. The RPSI will be back, and maybe the odd football special as well!

I agree about the outlet, was it just the loop or points as well. Taking my railway hat off Killarney has plenty of scope for rationalisation.

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