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This is a gorgeous shot of a steam engine and train sending up the plumes to herald another journey about to begin! What a wonderful sight and from way back in 1964???? Given the recent detail that has been emerging about the development or destruction of Irish railways (depending on you point of view) I would have thought that these were all being pulled by diesel engines???

According to Wikipedia: CIE was nationalised in 1950 and settled on a policy of replacing steam with diesel locomotives, a process that was completed in 1962.

According to The Irish Railway Preservation Society the last UTA 'official' steam train ran from Belfast to Dublin on 29th October. 1966. www.steamtrainsireland.com/schools/irishrailwaysystem.htm

Marvellously evocative shot of the ending of an era.

There were only 18 of these Class WT 2-6-4 locomotives built, numbered 1–10 and 50–57 so 245 is the time not engine number. Full stop needed. Looks like No.8 above. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCC_Class_WT

Nice things often come in pairs, be it vents or lower limbs. I also like the Fiat 600 with the L plates!

I was wondering if they were vents above an old public toilet - am entirely open to correction on this?

nice,very nice!!!!!!

Stu, I was trying to figure that one out also but the nearest were down outside the Savoy as I recall and that would be a long way from there. I would have to say I agree with Patrick, the lower limbs on the good looking blonde make this an excellent shot for comparison!

A fine street photo, with The Mystery of the Bollard Perforations. Wikipedia tells us: Internally illuminated traffic bollards have been in existence throughout the United Kingdom since the 1930s,

Wow! What a beautiful picture, love the reflection of the car in the windscreen!

ah the Dalkey bus of yore!

Brian Mulligan Perfect, isn't it? An Anglia, do you think?

Wendy: Still goes to Dalkey. The no. 8 will never die.

That was a Leyland Atlantean demonstrator vehicle, fitted with a Metro-Cammell-Weymann (MCW) body. It went on to serve with four different operators including Lough Swilly. Sadly, although preserved at one stage, it was later scrapped. I'd suggest that the picture was in fact taken outside CIE HQ on O'Connell Street, and the gentlemen shown were almost certainly top brass of the company at that time, evaluating the vehicle. But it was another 7 years before the large batch of what eventually became 640 Atlanteans started to arrive into Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland.