The Cavan & Leitrim Railway

A recent addition to the collection, the box looked interesting being marked 'Tralee & Dingle'.  After just a few minutes it was clear that these images came not from Kerry but further north, the Cavan and Leitrim Railway.  The photographs were taken on the 20th and 21st March 1959, just ten days before the line closed on 31st March 1959.

The slides are on Ilford film, and I'm sorry to say that if you used Ilford colour slide film in the late 1950s, please take copies of them now before they deteriorate any further...  The rather dull images that have been rescued with Photoshop show a rundown railway eking out it's last days before closure; I'm not sure how much of the tone of the images is from Irish March weather and how much has been lost from the dyes in the film, but they are fascinatingly evocative of the end of Irish narrow gauge.


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The Southern Terminus - Dromod

Kerr Stuart 2-6-0T 4T with a train of cattle wagons at Dromod, the southern terminus of the main line.   (20/03/1959)
Kerr Stuart 2-6-0T 4T with a train of cattle wagons at Dromod, the southern terminus of the main line.
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2-6-0T 4T is seen rather distantly with a train waiting to leave Dromod station.   (20/03/1959)
2-6-0T 4T is seen rather distantly with a train waiting to leave Dromod station.
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Former Tralee and Dingle locomotive 4T with a short train at Dromod station.   (20/03/1959)
Former Tralee and Dingle locomotive 4T with a short train at Dromod station.
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The Arigna Tramway

The station buildings at Arigna, the terminus of the branch or ‘tramway’ to the west.   (20/03/1959)
The station buildings at Arigna, the terminus of the branch or ‘tramway’ to the west.
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Former Tralee & Dingle Hunslet 2-6-0T No 3T runs round at Arigna   (20/03/1959)
Former Tralee & Dingle Hunslet 2-6-0T No 3T runs round at Arigna
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Hunslet 2-6-0T 3T has run round and now sits with it‘s single carriage waiting to depart.   (20/03/1959)
Hunslet 2-6-0T 3T has run round and now sits with it‘s single carriage waiting to depart.
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Another view of Hunslet 2-6-0T 3T as it waits with the Arigna tramway train   (20/03/1959)
Another view of Hunslet 2-6-0T 3T as it waits with the Arigna tramway train
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