The Wanderers Irish Rail Photospot

thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

Evening all.

My fotopic site

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has been on the go since August 2006 and now has 68 galleries of Irish and some UK trains. The latest up from this week includes:

Refurbished 8100 EMU's at Pearse.

Docklands.

2800's on non Rosslare duties.

Lunchtime at Connolly.

Irish Railway Record Society tour at Kilcoole.

So please come along and take a look, leave a comment etc etc etc.

Regards,
The Wanderer.

d6841 · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

The Wanderer
Your wanderings have turned up and interesting variety of rolling stock.

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andersley · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject:

Very interesting. 147 and 144 plus matching coaches make a fine sight. Cool

I worry about the mentality of the birdwatcher. Rolling Eyes

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thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

Thanks guys for the comments.

Yeah the birdwatcher was a fool.

thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

Hi all,

My latest update today is the annual Wexford Opera Special, which ran this afternoon in a change from its annual October Slot.

The train ran as Special 15.25 Connolly - Wexford and 073 did the honours with 7 Mk3's. Pictures of it in Connolly before departure may be found at

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The train is returning as 00.01 Wexford - Pearse Friday morning if anybody is insane enough to go out and see it!

The Wanderer.

Csalem · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:45 am Post subject:

Nice to see the Executive train still running. On a slightly side note, this train use to run from Dublin Pearse on the south side of the River Liffey, and was the only time of the year when Platform 3 was used in that station.

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thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

Platform 3 could not be used this year as it was signed out of use last week in prep for the Pearse Station redevelopment.

thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

THE REVOLUTION ROLLS ON

22000 Units No's. 22005, 22006, 22007, 22008 were delivered today and pictures from the Dublin Port Tramway, North Wall and Islandbridge Junction may be found at:

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for pictures of 160 and 184.

Enjoy the photos!

The Wanderer.

thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

50 pictures from Saturday at Portarlington and the Cobh line Push / Pull adventure are now online at

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Pity there are no sleeping cars in Ireland as the wanderer could have done with one this morning!

The plan: Meet my travelling companion at 0755 at Heuston, 0810 Heuston - Tralee to Mallow for the 1100 Mallow - Cork.

The reality: Alarm goes off at 0645, press cancel instead of snooze, fall asleep and wake up again at 0825 to the thought of oh b*****s as the 0810 is speeding through the hatch . Revised plan: 1000 Heuston - Cork and take it from there.

Csalem · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject:

Nice pictures. The people of Cobh were probably amazed by such luxury.

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thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

Evening all,

A very interesting start to the week in Connolly today with several unusual sightings between the hours of 1300 and 1400 and after 1700 hours. Check out

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to find out!

Also the LUAS Gallery has been updated with some images from Charlemont -

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While for something completly different and non transport related come along to

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Thanks for visiting!

The Wanderer.

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thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

I was travelling home from work this evening and a chance encounter with 082 on Connolly Shed off an early Sligo Timber gave me a opportunity to photograph 082, 227 and 083 on the shed.

082 working the Sligo timber is the first outing on the Connolly side for the new livery.

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andersley · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject:

082 almost seems to be hiding! Mr. Green

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thewanderer · Mail Van Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 293

It must have had enough of all the cameras chasing it!

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Not to be outdone by the antics of its sister, 081 decided it wanted
a trip to Sligo so on Friday it worked the 0625 Waterford - Sligo
empty timber as far as North Wall (as booked). It then went L.E. to
Connolly shed and was allocated for the 16.00 Connolly - Sligo F.O.
service. So 081 has the honour of working the first passenger
service in its new livery on the Connolly side.

Pictures of 081 awaiting departure from Connolly at:

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Video of 081 leaving Connolly will be available at

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shortly.

The Wanderer.