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Carrowbeg Railtour Fringe Event
Positioning special train. Whitehead - Dublin Connolly. Thursday 7th May 2009
All photographs by CP Friel unless otherwise credited.
 No
4 made the obligatory water stop at Lisburn where the tanks were filled
and the boxes felt for possible heat. |
 Noel
Playfair keeps a fatherly eye on proceedings from the fireman’s seat. |
 We
were stopped at Newry for a while to let a ballast train clear the section
to Dundalk. There is just a glimpse of the work being done to this busy
station and on the race-track main road beyond. |
 A
traditional view at Dundalk where the balloon tank was duly drained by... |
 ...Bill
(who got more water than the loco)! |
 The
Connolly pilot, No 175, lifts the stock to put it in the yard and... |
 No
4 follows down to the signal before getting into the yard. Noel Playfair
and loco rep James. |
 No
4 and No 186 were together overnight. |
 No
4 gets a new load of bagged coal courtesy of a forklift with very useful
telescopic arms. |
 The
first pallet of coal almost unloaded. |
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