carlwebus Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 I've just been sorting through some photographs I bought in a job lot from the local auction house. Among them are some decent shots of what looks to me like a narrow gauge railway. There is no information apparent on what they are who who was the photographer but they all take the form of photo postcards. (I know that it was often the practice to have your photos printed on postcards and indeed there are three duplicates among them). Many of the other photos in the job lot seem to be just pre-war. As will be seen from the attachments I have included. they are all of what look like cow catcher fitted narrow gauge steam locomotives with a couple including a station. Most are of heavily loaded cattle trains but a couple include passenger stock. My immediate prejudice is for (maybe) Ireland? I have trawled through all the obvious options I can think of on the internet but have not found anything to match. I do not believe they have been published before. Can anybody help me here? I have included numbers on the bottom left of each picture to aid description/ discussion and response 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 I think it's the Cavan and Leitrim Railway. I remember there was drawings of the locomotives in an old Railway Modeller. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bécasse Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Tralee and Dingle monthly cattle special - the only traffic on the line in its last few years. 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Tralee and Dingle looks like it, yes, There are plenty of other photos of it which show similar locos. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Tralee+and+Dingle+Railway&atb=v105-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Tralee & Dingle in Ireland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
108 Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Definitely T&D. 4 of the locos were used later on the Cavan & Leitrim Railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 (edited) Nos. 3 & 4 are of the Owenascaul bridge just east of Annascaul on the Tralee and Dingle. No.6 is by W.A. Camwell, is near Camp (T & D) and dates from 29th April 1938, published on the front page of May 1939 Railway Magazine (and also in Whitehouse and Snell, Narrow Gauge Railways of the British Isles, which is where I got this info from.) I suspect No.5 is also a W.A. Camwell photo of similar vintage, probably the same place and train. Edited to add: Indeed they all might be W.A. Camwell photos, as No. 4 is also a W.A. Camwell photo of Spring 1938 (info from David Rowlands, The Tralee and Dingle Railway, where the photo appears). And again: Photo Nos. 1 and 2 must be before 1939, as the passenger service stopped that year Edited May 27, 2020 by eastglosmog Source of one of the other photos 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlwebus Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 Many thanks to all who responded. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlwebus Posted June 9, 2020 Author Share Posted June 9, 2020 More photos that came from the same batch as the others posted here. I'm wondering if anyone can confirm for me whether (or not) these are also Tralee & Dingle. I'm thinking pic No14 could be Dingle or Castlegregory? Its plainly beside the sea. Pic No 23 looks likely? Pics Nos 24 and 25: Did the T&D ever have 2-4-2Ts? Dont think so - but Belfast & Co Down, Belfast & Northern Counties, Northern Counties Commitee and GNRI did (the latter's class JT sort of looks possible)? Don't think the T&D ever had a steam railcar like that in pic 22? (Looks a bit like some of the LNER steam railcars)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 9, 2020 i think #23 is the West Clare Railway #24 & #25 are locomotives of the Cork, Blackrock & Passage. These also ran later on the Cavan & Leitrim, so I couldn't be sure which line features in these picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 (edited) looks like 601 on the side of the sentinel and according to the LNER website it is Cheshire lines/Axholme joint though the number is only mentioned at the bottom in regards to a photo of a model https://www.lner.info/locos/Railcar/sentinel.php Edited June 9, 2020 by sir douglas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bécasse Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Numbers 24 and 25 are of former Cork, Blackrock & Passage locos in the yard at Ballinamore after their transfer to the Cavan & Leitrim - the C&L carriage just visible in number 25 is very distinctive. Number 23 is at Kilkee on the West Clare and depicts that railway's 0-6-2T no.5 (I think) and original compartment carriages. I think that no.5 survived, plinthed at Ellis. I am sorry but I don't immediately recognise no.14 but there were a number of locations where three foot gauge lines ran close to the sea in both the Republic and Northern Ireland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Holliday Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 9 hours ago, bécasse said: I am sorry but I don't immediately recognise no.14 but there were a number of locations where three foot gauge lines ran close to the sea in both the Republic and Northern Ireland. Did NE and LMS lettered wagons run anywhere in Ireland? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tim Hall Posted June 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 10, 2020 10 hours ago, bécasse said: Numbers 24 and 25 are of former Cork, Blackrock & Passage locos in the yard at Ballinamore after their transfer to the Cavan & Leitrim - the C&L carriage just visible in number 25 is very distinctive. Number 23 is at Kilkee on the West Clare and depicts that railway's 0-6-2T no.5 (I think) and original compartment carriages. I think that no.5 survived, plinthed at Ellis. I am sorry but I don't immediately recognise no.14 but there were a number of locations where three foot gauge lines ran close to the sea in both the Republic and Northern Ireland. West Clare No5 was restored to full working order by Keefs near Monmouth a few years ago, and is seen in service at Moyasta Junction on the West Clare, on 5th June 2012. Very friendly, running on demand on a very wet day (we'd arrived in a heatwave the previous weekend). My daughter, seen with me on the footplate, turned 13 yesterday. Where does the time go? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bécasse Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Nick Holliday said: Did NE and LMS lettered wagons run anywhere in Ireland? Ah. I had wondered if no.14 was a standard gauge location, and obviously somewhere on the British mainland, not Ireland at all! I still don't recognise it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlwebus Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 Many thamks to you experts - especially Andy Kirkham, Sir Douglas, becasse, Nick Holliday and Tim Hall. I agree, following further research, that photo 22 shows Cheshire Lines Committee Sentinel-Cammellsteam railcar No 601. I shall have to dig some more on photo 14 (well spotted NE & LMS Nick)! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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