Today, we’d be happy to see a railcar cross Irish Rail’s dormant South Wexford Line.
Back in April 2006, I made this photograph of a mixed pair (class 121/141) with a ballast train at Campile.
Not hard to take in retrospect!
On 10 March 2016 at 7:30 pm, I Will Present to the Irish Railway Record Society in Dublin a feature length illustrated talk on Irish railways as they were ten years ago; the year 2006.
My talk will be at the IRRS Dublin premises near Heuston Station.
See: http://www.irrs.ie
Tracking the Light posts every day!
This picture reminds me of Great Northern’s switchers. by the colourscheme.
In Australia they have/had a color scheme on VR that was very much like ERIE RR. (I live along the old ERIE Main in Narrowsburg. , NY. The other thing with the Victorian Railways was that they had VR the same way the Finnish State Ry’s had it on their equipment.
The good ol’ days!
I remember during my visit to Ireland in the late 1980s I talked with a couple of railway workers that had relatives working on the railways here in the States. One had a cousin on the Pennsy – can’t remember where the other worked. I imagine years before my visit there were a lot of Transatlantic railway families as I remember several born-on-the-old-sod Irishmen working on the New Haven. We took a day return Dublin-Cork and I had the best breakfast I’d ever had aboard a train on that day.