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The engine appears to say 6T on it.

Thank you!

Is this the same engine? I'm not trainspotty enough to work it out -

OSI map centered on the photographers approximate position. note crane and SP. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,605395,790263,7,9

Very evocative photo with the winter sun.
No.6T was one of the ex Tralee & Dingle Railway locomotives, transferred firstly to the West Clare section after closure of the Tralee system in 1952, and finally moving to the Cavan & Leitrim in 1957 to deal with the increasing coal traffic from the Arigna mines. Its sister locomotive 5T is currently in a dismantled state in Tralee.

Probably were under instruction to keep still for a minute or so.

Now those two ladies look suspiciously like mother and daughter, so could this be the propietor's family posing for an all-important publicity post-card? Sunday clothes, mother to anwer to if they don't get it right..... it's no wonder the poor things look wooden. And, Oh I do hope father didn't step on his nice new billy-cock hat when he got up!

Well, I guess Michiel2005 is right, posing for a while didn't exactly make for spontaneous snapshots, but maybe you're right too Jack Falstaff. Maybe they weren't resting tourists! And thanks for billycock! Didn't know that was what these hats were called. Apparently also bombín in Spanish speaking parts...

You're welcome, Carol. It was also known as a Derby in the USA, but more generally in the UK (when Jack was a lad, which is a long time ago) as a Bowler (after the name of the original makers) and,much more rarely if memory serves, as a Coke Hat (because it was created in the mid-nineteenth century for Edward Coke, brother of the Earl of Leicester).

Charming scene would be great foe a publicity shot.

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,605428,790152,7,9

I was there a couple of years ago. It hasn't changed much. About the only difference was that it was raining.

This is the Narrow Guage Station of the Cavan and Leitrim Railway which closed on 1st April 1959. I would presume that it has changed quite a bit since then.

Lots of details about the two Dromad stations by Brian Haworth Here

derangedlemur Thanks for location.