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NIR Downhill, Co. Derry—Two Years Ago.
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On this day, 8 Oct 2016, I made this view of an Northern Ireland Railways CAF at Downhill, Co. Derry on its run from Derry/Londonderry to Belfast. A similar view from this sequence appeared in my book Brian Solomon’s Railway…
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NI Railways 3021 at Cultra, Co. Down.
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No, not on display. Not yet! This was a service train. It had just begun to rain. So rather than making a potentially bland colour view, I exposed this photograph on black & white film using my Canon EOS 3 with…
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Northern Ireland Railways at Helen’s Bay.
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Here’s another case of when the station isn’t a station. The classic old stone station building at Helen’s Bay, County Down is now a salon. The platforms still serve the railway though. Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm XT1 with Zeiss…
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NI Railways at Botanic, Belfast.
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Sometimes a station name conveys a grander image than what’s really there. Cherry Orchard in Dublin comes to mind. Put out visions of lush blossoming trees in a bucolic pastoral setting, and replace it with industrial squalor, palisade fencing, graffiti…
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Lumix Raw-Adjusted on the Train—Changing at Portadown.
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Just moments ago, I changed trains at Portadown, Northern Ireland. I’m writing this from the NIR service from Portadown to Bangor. I uploaded Lumix files to my MacBook, and adjusted them using Lightroom on the train. Then scaled and uploaded…
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Class 201 Retrospective: Northern Irish Railways 8208 Everywhere but the Enterprise.
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Next up for my 20 years in Ireland/class 201 numerical retrospective is old 208/8208: to be different, I’m posting views of 8208 (one of two Class 201s owned by NIR for Enterprise service) working a variety of trains but not…
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NI Railways Celebrates 50 Years Today!—1 April 2018
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NI Railways marks 50 today! The other day, I made a few views of the celebration stickers and posters. To help celebrate, I’m also posting a view I made of an old 80-class railcar at Whitehead back on 19 April…
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Fool in the Rain, Irish Weather Part 1.
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On the way to Belfast from Dublin a couple of weeks ago, the rain lashed down. Instead of changing trains at Portadown, I opted to remain dry a little long and remained on the Enterprise all the way to Belfast…
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Looking Down on Great Victoria Street, Belfast.
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Plans are afoot to redevelop Belfast’s Great Victoria Street Station. Although NI Railway’s platforms are not an architectural wonder, I’ve been making photos of the present arrangement before it changes. I made these views with my Lumic LX-7 from the…
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Holywood Sunset?—Febraury 2018.
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At Holywood, NI Railways skirts the Lagan estuary on its way from Belfast to Bangor. Although a mostly overcast afternoon, hints of colour and the occasional shaft of light appeared in the evening sky. I’d been trying to put the…
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NI Railway’s Lisburn Station at Dawn.
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The early hours are often a cosmic time for photography. Last week I visited NI Railway’s Lisburn Station with Honer Travers to catch a morning train into Belfast. There was just a hint of colour in the sky and mist…
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HDR versus Manipulated RAW; or Flowers with NI Railways.
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My Lumix LX7 has an ‘high-dynamic range’ feature. Otherwise known by its initials ‘HDR’, high-dynamic range is a technique for digital imaging that allows greater detail in highlights and shadows by combining several images of the same subject that were…
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Views of a Level Crossing and Some Sheep; Moira—Part 2 (four new photos)
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This is a follow up to yesterday’s post on NI Railway’s Moira Station. I’m always looking for a different angle, and I found a variety of ways to photograph Moira last Sunday. The vantage points for these photos were all…
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Steam in the Rain: RPSI Steam & Jazz at Lisburn—25 August, 2017.
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Lisburn is a surviving gem among old Great Northern Railway stations in Northern Ireland. RPSI’s steam crew apologized for the weather, but there was no need. Steam locomotives make for excellent subjects when photographed at dusk in the rain. This…
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NI Railways at Adelaide Depot, Belfast.
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The other day I made this view of a CAF-built NI Railways train at the railway’s Adelaide Depot in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Exposed using a Panasonic Lumix LX7 digital camera. Tracking the Light Posts Daily!
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Lisburn Station in Black & White.
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It was raining. I had the Leica IIIa fitted with a vintage Nikkor f3.5 35mm screw-mount lens and loaded with Kodak Tri-X. And yes, I had a digital camera with me. Two, really. And I also made some colour views….
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NI Railways: Castlerock Semaphore Finale—October 2016. Six Photos.
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Among the last active installations of ‘somersault’ signals has survived on NI Railways at Castlerock, County Derry, Northern Ireland. The somersault is an antique variety of two-aspect semaphore where the signal arm and spectacle (lens) frame are separate pieces and…
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Downhill, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland—Shafts of Light with some Ocean Side Cliffs (and a wee NIR railcar down below).
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Some of Ireland’s finest rail-side scenery is in the North. At Downhill, Co. Derry massive vertical cliffs rise high above the Belfast-Derry line, with the great expanse of the North Atlantic beyond. In October, lighting can be a bit tricky,…
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DAILY POST: Northern Ireland in November 2005.
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NIR in Transition. In November 2005, Translink NI Railways (operator of railway services in Northern Ireland) was in a transitional phase equipment-wise. New 3001 class railcars had been recently introduced, yet many of the older 80-class and Castle class…