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On Saturday 8th June 2019, Virgin Trains, Locomotive Services and The Railway Magazine held an open day at Crewe Diesel Depot. Despite the weather being utterly miserable, it didn't detour the crowds from flocking to the venue to see an exciting line up of exhibits from across the UK Rail...

Branch Line Society: The Cork Stopper - Sunday 19th May 2019 On Sunday 19th May 2019, the Branch Line Society in conjunction with Iarnrod Eireann operated a charity railtour, raising money for the Railway Children charity. The railtour traversed crossovers, rarely used platforms and sidings with...

Morning folks, I'm over in London for the weekend and the first batch of pictures have now been uploaded to https://bit.ly/2vT3Pxe Pictures come from: - Shannon Airport. - Gatwick Airport. - East and West Croydon. - Carshalton Beeches. - Clapham Jct. - Twickenham. - Whitton. - Winsdor and...

Hi folks, Do you need a photo ID card to buy a weekly season ticket?

Evening folks, We kick off the 2019 season with photos from Portlaoise, Limerick Jct., Limerick and Nenagh. The North Tipperary Rail Community had their annual outing from Nenagh Station today to Limerick for Limerick-on-Ice with about 90 people travelling on the 1655 from Limerick to...

Evening folks, Last weekend I visited London and did some travelling around the network. Full description of the areas visited can be seen on the gallery page at https://goo.gl/QCwPWK Some of the highlights include: - Parliamentary train from South Ruislip to London Paddington. - Upminister to...

On Tuesday 28th August 2018, Iarnrod Eireann in conjunction with Castleconnell Tidy Towns and Love Castleconnell celebrated the 160th anniversary of the Killonan Jct. to Castleconnell railway with a special service from Limerick to Castleconnell and Birdhill. About 300 to 400 people attended...

Evening folks, We start off the 2018 round of photos with a visit to Cork, Cobh and Midleton. The main reason for my trip was to see the new station entrance at Cork. Unfortunately the weather wasn't that kind with Storm Eleanor rolling in across the country. Click http://smu.gs/2DUbLk3 to view.

The LUAS Cross City extension of the Green Line opens on Saturday 9th December after being offically opened by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD, Transport Minister Shane Ross TD and Minister for Finance & Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe TD at a opening ceremony outside the GPO in Dublin...

A colleague wishes to travel from Manchester Piccadilly to Wembley Central. Now the most logical way to do this would be to travel Manchester to Euston and double back to Wembley Central using the Watford DC service. Is there an easement for this considering you have to double back. Looking at...

A group of friends decide to go to Poznan for the weekend. Two of us decide to take the scenic route and get the train from London to Berlin (overnight) and then onto Poznan Friday morning, while the rest of them fly out on Friday from Dublin. What could possibly go wrong? It turns out we...

Following the repainting of locomotive 071 into its original C.I.E. livery in May 2016 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the class, another anniversary in Irish Railway history was looming in 2017 as it would be 30 years since the founding of Iarnrod Eireann on the 2nd February 1987 when...

Hi all, I'm flying into Heathrow T2 tomorrow afternoon. Can anybody tell me where the Heathrow Express ticket office is located? I require to buy a PRV fare to Aylesbury. Cheers.

On the 2nd February 1987 CIÉ was reorganised into a holding company and three operating companies called Iarnrod Eireann, Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann. To mark the occasion, the IE Twitter team did a behind the scenes of Iarnród Éireann for 24 hours (0500 - 0500), to get a glimpse of how the...

Tuesday 3rd January 2017: We start off the 2017 pictures with a visit to Ratheven outside Portlaoise to photograph 076 hauling failed 234 from Cork to Inchicore plus the usual MKIV and 22000 sets on passenger traffic. Click http://smu.gs/2iLRIdG to view all the images. --- old post above...

Morning folks, Just wondering would a London Terminals to Holyhead single ticket be valid to travel from London Marylebone to Birmingham Moor Street and then onwards from New Street to Holyhead via Crewe? Thanks, W.

Hi all, A colleague of mine (who has PRV) is wishing to travel from Watford Jct. to London Euston. Plus get a zone 1-2 travelcard for a day trip to London. Can you get a travelcard add on with Priv? As I can't seem to find any fares for it in brfares (I could be using the wrong code)...

Evening all, Some pictures from a very foggy Portarlington this morning. Click http://smu.gs/2gQMZXL to view. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Afternoon all, A few pictures from around Dublin today. - The Gullet between Heuston and Inchicore with loco transfers and the...

Evening all, Iarnród Éireann launched their new commuter services connecting stations between Newbridge and Parkwest with Connolly to Grand Canal Dock via the Phoenix Park Tunnel line on Monday 21st November. The introduction of the new services follows an investment of €13.7 million in...

Evening all, The latest update to the website is pictures from a weekend in London. The reason for the trip was to visit the London Transport Museum Depot at Acton Town for a guided tour called "Cab it" where you can visit all of the cabs of the Underground cars on display here. Pictures...