{"id":22227,"date":"2018-09-18T05:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22227"},"modified":"2018-09-18T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T07:53:11","slug":"mix-and-unmatched-at-the-gullet-variety-on-irish-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mix-and-unmatched-at-the-gullet-variety-on-irish-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix and Unmatched at the Gullet\u2014Variety on Irish Rail."},"content":{"rendered":"

Who said that Irish Rail is boring?<\/p>\n

Patience and being-there can make the difference.<\/p>\n

On the Evening of 16 September 2018, the Railway Preservation Society Ireland’s Cravens transfer (train\u00a0 i.d. H260) ran from Connolly to Irish Rail\u2019s Inchicore Works. Rather than run with an 071 class locomotive, as is often the case, it was assigned locomotive 216 specially painted for Belmond\u2019s Grand Hibernian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Exposed with a FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gullet glint! Trailing view of RPSI’s Cravens transfer. Exposed with a FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The following morning, the up Grand Hibernian<\/em>from Waterford passed the same location with Irish Rail class 071 number 083 in the lead.<\/p>\n

While Belmond\u2019s train often runs to and from Waterford with an 071 class locomotive, this still presents a bit variety on a railway that tends to favour uniform train sets.<\/p>\n

All \u00a0of these photos were exposed at \u2018The Gullet\u201d (the three track throat to Islandbridge Junction) from Memorial Road in Dublin.<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Trailing view looking toward Islandbridge. Exposed with a Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Who said that Irish Rail is boring? Patience and being-there can make the difference. On the Evening of 16 September 2018, the Railway Preservation Society Ireland’s Cravens transfer (train\u00a0 i.d. H260) ran from Connolly to Irish Rail\u2019s Inchicore Works. Rather than run with an 071 class locomotive, as is often the case, it was assigned … Continue reading Mix and Unmatched at the Gullet\u2014Variety on Irish Rail.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3781,3463,21,64],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Irish_Rail_083_w_Belmond_Grand_Hibernian_Memorial_Drive_ConColbert_Road_P1780620.jpg?fit=3311%2C2415&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Mv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22232,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227\/revisions\/22232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}