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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    Afternoon all, Latest update to the March gallery includes photos from Limerick Station and a visit to Ballycar Lough, which has flooded the Limerick - Ennis railway at this location resulting in services being suspended between these two locations for the next several weeks until the flood...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    Monday 18th March 2024; Pictures of the new station under construction in Waterford and the 1335 Connolly - Rosslare Europort running along the quayside at Wexford. Click https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2024-Photos/March-2024/i-nxPXTvN to view all the images.
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    Last Saturday I hosted an Irish Railway Record Society trip to the Level Crossing Control Centre at Mallow and also visited the Lartigue Monorail in Listowel. Pictures from the trip are at...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    The latest updates to the website this week include: Sunday 10th March 2024: Pictures from a busy Nenagh on Sunday evening. Wednesday 13th March 2024: Pictures from Portlaoise mainly with a single picture from Thurles. Highlight being 22519 on its first day in service. Click...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    The March gallery has been updated with photos from the past week with photos from: - Nenagh - Limerick - Limerick Jct. - Ennis - Ballybrophy. 087 passing Ballybrophy on a materials train to Lisduff. - Newbridge - Kildare. 072 passing with Saturday's IWT Liner from Dublin North Wall to...
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    Iarnród Éireann Driver & Guard, Route & Traction Cards

    No empty back to Pearse for the last service to Dundalk.
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    Iarnród Éireann Driver & Guard, Route & Traction Cards

    Thank you! Heuston have no work to Limerick now for a number of years with the last remaining job being the 1325 HN / LK, 1620 LK / HN on Sundays. Only have one job to Limerick for a big depot it was proving hard to resource so Limerick took it over. Weekdays Limerick directs are only peak...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    Afternoon all, A bumper start to the March gallery with over 100 photos uploaded to the gallery today with trips to Cork and Belfast in the space of 24 hours. The main highlight being the diversion of the Dublin to Belfast Lanyon Place "Enterprise" service into Belfast Great Victoria Street...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    The February gallery comes to an end with the first refurbished first class MK4 carriage being released back to service today on the 1600 Dublin Heuston - Cork. Initial customer feedback from those who were lucky to travel on the first service with the refreshed interior was positive with many...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    The February gallery has been updated with: Monday 19th February 2024: Just one pict from Ballybrophy while enroute to Dublin for an overnight. Sunday 25th February 2024: A varied selection of images today from Killarney showing 22016 working Tralee line services. Of course 22016 is the first...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    My 3rd trip to the UK this year (and was the 1st planned!) with a long weekend based in Manchester. The reason for the trip was to attend the IRRS Manchester Branch talk with the President of the Society Dick Fearn. Other highlights from the trip include: * Hadfield and Glossop. * Preston /...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    After spending a long weekend in the Manchester area, I arrived back into Ireland to find my train home to Thurles would have vehicle 22516, which is the first of the new 22000 Class B2 type cars to enter service last Friday. So click...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    Evening all, The backlog of photos has been cleared and the website has been updated with the end of January and the start of February. The January gallery can be viewed at https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2024-Photos/January-2024/i-TMHxfJm and contains: * Pictures from Portlaoise on...
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    Irish Railway Record Society: "Time’s Arrow” 18/19th May 2024

    The "Time’s Arrow” railtour has been arranged for Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th May 2024 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Tokyu Car Corporation 2600 Class Railcars, which entered service on Monday 16th May 1994. With thanks to Iarnród Éireann, we are going back in time to the 1990’s by...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    After receiving an invite to attend the event at London Waterloo for the return of 4VEP 3417 "Gordon Pettitt" to the terminus for the first time in 18 years, I made a flying visit to London on the Friday night to attend the event on Saturday before returning back to Ireland on Saturday night. I...
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    Good evening all, Photos from Nenagh, Ballybrophy and various locations in the Dublin area from Monday and Tuesday. Click https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2024-Photos/January-2024/i-2DMKW3n to view.
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    The Wanderer's 2024 Photos

    A rather hastily arranged trip to England was put together for early January as I needed to head to Norfolk for a family event. As is usual with me, I extended the trip a few days either side and managed to fit in a few more bits I had wanted to tick off. * Belfast to Birkenhead Ferry. *...
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    The Wanderer's 2023 photos

    The January 2024 gallery kicks off with: Thursday 4th January 2024: Pictures from Nenagh of 3ICR 22060 working the evening branch service. Friday 5th January 2024: Pictures from between Nenagh and Belfast. Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th January 2024: A weekend in Belfast with visits to Derry...
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    Cardiff to North Walsham

    That booking engine was giving me some weird results earlier. I was thinking more along the lines of non advance tickets where would be good places to split.
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    Cardiff to North Walsham

    Hi all, A relation is looking to travel from Cardiff (or Pontypridd) to North Walsham next week (out Wed 10th and return Fri 12th). The booking engines don't seem to be showing any advance purchase tickets and the cheapest I can find is the off peak return at £159.80. The split ticketing...

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