Twenty four years ago this month, I exposed this pair of Fujichrome Sensia II color slides of Irish Rail’s down Galway accellerating away from the station a Ballinasloe led by a class 201 diesel.

At the time the Galway Line was still largely protected with traditional mechanical signals locally controlled by signal cabins.

In 2003, Irish replaced the old signal system with a modern ‘Mini CTC’ system controlled remotely from Dublin.

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