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With thanks to Transdev Ireland, operators of LUAS, a tram tour has been arranged to transverse the Red Line on Sunday 10th May 2026, covering a variety of non-passenger sections of track & non preferred platforms. Bookings will be handled by the Irish Railway Record Society and also the...

The January 2026 gallery kicks off with: A Saturday evening wander from Thurles to Limerick and Ballybrophy. Just before Christmas, 3ICR 22063 re-entered passenger service after a long period of being out of service for conversion to a hybrid train with battery packs. In the latter part of...

An outing has been arranged to travel to Waterford to visit the Waterford & Suir Valley Railway on Saturday 13th September 2025. The outing will travel from Dublin Heuston to Waterford via Kilkenny on Iarnród Éireann service train and between Waterford & Kilmeaden via private coach. Our return...

An infrastructure update today with the official opening of the new platform 6 and extension of platform 5 at Cork Kent Station by the Taoiseach, EU Commissioner and Transport Minister. Click https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/Officialevents/2025/Official-opening-of-new-platform-6-at-Cork to...

The Har-stone Explorer With thanks to Transdev Ireland, operators of LUAS, a tram tour has been arranged to transverse the Green Line on Sunday 18th May 2025, covering a variety of non-passenger track and one of the un-opened stations on the Green Line. The requested itinerary is: Broombridge...

Outing to Belfast Grand Central & Adelaide Depot With thanks to Translink, an outing has been arranged to visit the new Belfast Grand Central Station and Adelaide Depot on Wednesday 28th May 2025. The outing will travel from Dublin Connolly at 07:40 hrs on a Iarnrod Eireann 22000 Class...

Sunday 5th January 2025: Significant snowfall occured in the midlands and southern parts of Ireland on Saturday evening, continuing overnight and all day Sunday. Road conditions were extremely difficult with reports of Motorways being impassable in places. The railway operated more or less to...

The "Time’s Arrow” railtour has been arranged for Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th May 2024 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Tokyu Car Corporation 2600 Class Railcars, which entered service on Monday 16th May 1994. With thanks to Iarnród Éireann, we are going back in time to the 1990’s by...

A rather hastily arranged trip to England was put together for early January as I needed to head to Norfolk for a family event. As is usual with me, I extended the trip a few days either side and managed to fit in a few more bits I had wanted to tick off. * Belfast to Birkenhead Ferry. *...

Hi all, A relation is looking to travel from Cardiff (or Pontypridd) to North Walsham next week (out Wed 10th and return Fri 12th). The booking engines don't seem to be showing any advance purchase tickets and the cheapest I can find is the off peak return at £159.80. The split ticketing...

The Irish Railway Record Society is delighted to announce, “The Token Exchange” Railtour has been arranged for Saturday 23rd September 2023. We will be travelling over the South Tipperary & the Nenagh Branches to view the last mechanically signalled passenger railway lines in Ireland using...

Tuesday 3rd January 2023: We kick off the 2023 gallery with pictures from Nenagh, BNallybrophy, Portlaoise, Limerick Jct. and Limerick. The highlight of the day was 3ICR 22060 working the 1710 Limerick - Ballybrophy in place of the normal 2800 class set due to heavy loadings as the North...

Hi folks, Looking for a bit of advice as I'm not sure I'm putting the right details into brfares. A colleague was enquiring today how much was the fare into London from Watford Jct. He would then be travelling around London for the day. So I was thinking Watford Jct to travelcard zone boundary...

Tom Ryan retires. January 7th 2022 Driver Tom Ryan of Cork Depot retired from Iarnrod Eireann on the 7th January 2022 after 49 years service to the company, 40 of those as a driver based in Cork. Many of Tom's friends and colleagues came out to wish him well on his final turn of duty, 0700...

Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to visit the fledging Connemara Railway in Maam Cross in Co.Galway. At the moment a "popup" narrow gauge railway has been laid on the site to showcase what is to come. Plans are in place to replace this with 5ft 3in track later this year or in 2022. Click...

I had to take an essential trip to Cork on Friday 29th January so a selection of images from: * Limerick, featuring the new station departures board. * Limerick Jct. * Cork, includes images of the new Horgan's Quay development on former railway land next to the railway station. * Later that...

Afternoon folks, I spent five days in the UK last week on an All Line Ticket travelling around from as far south as Gatwick to as far north as Montrose (south of Aberdeen). I had planned to sample the Caledonian Sleeper train on the Sunday night but Storm Ciara and Network Rail put paid to...

Friday 3rd January 2020: The Nenagh branch service is 3ICR worked today and tomorrow to cater for passenger demand travelling to/from Limerick for the Limerick on Ice trips organised by the local community rail partnership. Today, approx 106 passengers travelled on the 1005 Ballybrophy -...

I was in Glasgow for a couple of days between the 26th and 28th November for an IRO event in the City. Between these events I managed to get out and explore some of the extensive suburban railway network the city has to offer. Click https://bit.ly/2DFL6cB to view the 160 images from the visit.

Afternoon folks, The latest batch of pictures from this weekend have now been uploaded to the August gallery which features one of the biggest changes to the operation of Limerick Jct. since 1967 and probably since the opening of the station in 1848, the new Down Platform at the station opened...