It was on a damp evening 15 years ago (13 December 2003), that I exposed this 35mm Fujichrome Sensia II slide using my Contax G2 rangefinder with 45mm Zeiss lens at Irish Rail’s station in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.
At the time, Irish Rail was operating its sugarbeet trains via Thomastown and Cherryville Junction owing to bridge collapse at Cahir, County Tipperary.
I’ve always liked the rich atmosphere of this slide which conveys an era now gone. Irish Rail closed the cabin at Thomastown a few months later and removed the Thomastown loop when it commissioned the Waterford Mini CTC.
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That’s wonderful Brian. As a signal man in the UK, you’ve captured the atmosphere perfectly. Film far better at atmosphere and ‘soul’, sadly lacking with digital without resorting to computer digery-pokery!
Love it
Very evocative, and that low level GS&WR down platform still surviving into the 21st century.
Michael Walsh