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Cars from Cork

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  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • derangedlemur said:
    Seems to be a mix of Populars and Anglias, or else Anglias of different vintages.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    And a quartet couple of Consuls at the back of the queue en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Consul#Ford_Consul_Mark_II_(1956%E2%80%931962)
  • Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
    I'm unfamiliar with Cork but that looks like old Ford Factory in the background (& on the far bank of the Lee). So that would make it (unsurprisingly) the goods yard alongside Horgan's Quay
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Streetview from Horgan's Quay across the Lee. The OSI maps show there used to be Travelling Cranes here as seen in the background. The cars are most likely being loaded for transport to Dublin.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    On their way to the real capitol!

Tamping machine

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  • 21 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Barretstown (or Barrettstown) is in Kildare?
  • O Mac said:
    The machine would have held the track up while a series of vibrating prongs were lowered to rattled the ballast/stones under the sleepers. And if its not too early here's a YouTube of the going's on. youtu.be/j60braEk5c8?t=1m15s
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The line is still twin tracked, and still very straight near Barretstown, Co. Kildare, if that is where we are.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Apparently for packing stones under railway sleepers. A ganger in the signal maintenance department of the then C.I.E. was killed at Dundrum Station in Tipperary when a tamping machine was reversing, and the man was inspecting pins in the sleepers. (Nenagh Guardian, 21 April 1962) In 1966, British Railways planned to save £5 million every year by replacing pick-and-shovel gangs (reducing line maintenance staff from 23,000 to 16,000) with Tamping Machines. They were made by Rolls-Royce at their Shrewsbury factory. Theirs was called the Duomatic Levelling and Tamping Machine. (Irish Press, 1 September 1966) Could ours be a Rolls-Royce model?
  • derangedlemur said:
    I think the device might be following it, not preceeding it. I'd guess from the three optical instruments on it that it's checking the camber.

The only thing missing is the tumbleweed

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