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The British Rail train ferry Cambridge Ferry. She operated between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire in February 1991, right at the end of her career. She was also a regular on the Fishguard - Rosslare run during the late 1980s.

Troops? [ed. Oh I see what you meant!] "... In 1972, Cambridge Ferry and Essex Ferry made ten voyages between Harwich and Dublin, Ireland to deliver new rolling stock to CIÉ. ..." From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Cambridge_Ferry

Flickr is sometimes surprisingly amazing! In 1984 via TimWebb

There's a connection between this ferry and Train Ferry 2 seen at Cork. Both used the same "link span" at Harwich. This links span was moved from Port Richborough after WW1 and is now a national monument in Harwich. flic.kr/p/bKFARH I wonder how those new coach's with their 5' 3” Irish guage aligned with the 4' 81/2” British guage on the ferry?

Well, they didn't, must have been up on wooden blocks or something. Delivery of seventy-two Mk2 coaches from Derby. Lasted in service till 2008. I wonder what it was doing on the Fishguard run as train ferrries were never a feature between Britain and Ireland

Streetview: www.google.ie/maps/@53.7986337,-9.5500454,3a,75y,257h,68....

And OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,497891,784347,11,9

I am not seeing any obvious dates here...

The rolling stock is towards the later end of the date range, I think.

The next photo features an Honoria McBride's establishment; She's there in 1901, gone by 1911.

BCI 239 ? (I can't find my glasses!) 28 October 1968 was a Monday ... 28 October 1967 was a Saturday ...

The internet is sometimes AMAZING!
"beetle.ie - Ireland’s first ever census on classic Irish aircooled VWs" - beetle.ie/vehicle/bci-239/

beachcomber australia Incredible! The O'Dea shot is listed as Athy in the catalogue, that Beetle page says: It was parked at the side of a garage in Monastervin, County Kildare. in the mid 80s, 20 years later, just 20km up the road.

The Streetview shows that the layout at Athy is very simple now, just twin tracks straight through, but on the 25" it was more complex, with Cattle pens West of the line and track to the Goods shed at left/East. There was a section with buffers behind the surviving water tank. I think that is where the Bowater carriage was pictured, given the points in the foreground.

beachcomber australia Niall McAuley Incredible is right!!