On 10 March 2016, I will present a feature length illustrated talk to the Irish Railway Record Society in Dublin; my topic, Irish Railways in 2006.

This will begin at 7:30 pm at the IRRS Dublin premises near Heuston Station, Dublin.

In keeping with this theme, today’s Tracking the Light looks back at 2006: A year that saw many changes on Irish Rail. Among these was the introduction of the Mark4 push pull sets on the Dublin-Cork run.

I made this view from the canal bridge over the River Barrow of Irish Rail’s viaduct over the same river.

Here a 201-class diesel in the recently introduced green and silver livery (designed to match the new Mark4 sets) leads a train of Mark 2 carriages.

Green 201s and Mark IIs only co-existed for a short time and I was please to make this striking image of this comparatively unusual combination.

Key to my composition is the billowing clouds to the north of the line.

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