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Irish Railways 1970

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Rosslaire Harbour with MV "Caledonian Princess" alongside

August 1970



Rosslaire Harbour

August 1970



A very blurred shot of Kilkrane, between Rosslaire Harbour and Rosslaire Strand

August 1970



Rosslaire Strand

August 1970



Bridgetown - exchanging staffs at 40mph!

August 1970



Crossing at Duncormick

August 1970



Retreiving the staff from the bushes!

August 1970



Kilkenny with unrebuilt Metrovick C219, GM B149 and an A-class

August 1970



Kilkenny with C219 & A50, also unrebuilt

August 1970



Waterford line diverges near Kilkenny

August 1970



Bagenalstown (or Muine Bheg)

August 1970



Crossing a non-stop down train at Athy. Note the token exchanger extended

August 1970



Joining the Dublin - Cork main line at Cherryville Jn

August 1970



B171 at Kildare

August 1970



Inchicore

August 1970



Islandbridge Jn outside Heuston station

August 1970



E-class shunter at Heuston

August 1970



A pair of GMs with an evening express for Limerick at Heuston. Note that the middle platforms (3 & 4) have not been built, and the 4-wheel boiler van on the right

August 1970



B133 with a Galway (via Mullingar) train at Pearse station

August 1970



Rebuilt A32 arrives at Pearse with a northbound van train

August 1970



Single-cab B121 at Pearse

August 1970



A57 arrives at Pearse from the south

August 1970



Connolly with a dmu from Howth arriving into one of the through platforms

August 1970



B166 with a southbound train at Connolly. The first vehicle is an old wooden-bodied non-corridor compartment coach

August 1970



The "Enterprise" arrives from Belfast with one of the Hunslet-built Bo-Bos and the single rake of Mk2c coaches built at Derby

August 1970



Another Hunslet loco at the north end of the "Enterprise" set, which ran as an 8-car formation with a loco at each end.

August 1970



E407 with ecs at Connolly. Again, note that it is all non-corridor compartment stock

August 1970



Dun Laoghaire Carlisle Pier with C211 on a boat train for Dublin and C202 on pilot duties

August 1970



The middle sidings at Heuston, where Platforms 3&4 have now been built

August 1970



Cravens coach at Heuston

August 1970

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I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth