We produce different photo sets on this legendary railway. Each set consists of 10 6x4 ins Colour or Black+White prints as described and you can order one set or several sets. The details of the sets are as follows.
Great Northern Rly (Ireland) Set A 10 6x4 COLOUR Prints
Created in 1876 from a number of constituent companies, the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) connected Dublin and Belfast, and from the 1930s, its azure blue 4-4-0s became a legend. Split between CIE and UTA in 1958, the GN is no more, but its legacy lives on in this set of 10 6x4 ins Colour Prints. We open with No 174, CARRANTUOHILL, an S class 4-4-0 of 1913, rebuilt with new heavier frames by G B Howden in 1939, and taken over by CIE in 1958 but sold to the UTA in 1963. No 174 is at Strabane, still wearing GN express passenger blue and GN lettering on the tender in September 1964. SG class 0-6-0 No 175 became UTA No 43, and though officially out of use, is seen making up an evening goods at Portadown on 1 September 1964 in this lovely evening shot. Big D, or officially SG3, No 35 is near Portadown Junction SB on 29 August 1964. Sister engine No 33 blasts away from Portadown with the Omagh night goods on 1 September 1964. Class UG goods No 48, with side window cab arrives with a freight at Portadown on 29 August 1964. A clean engine, with the red and yellow UTA lining standing out clearly. Sister engine No 49 heads a rake of passenger stock across the Bann Viaduct on 29 August 1964. The impressive GNRI(I) CREST adorned locomotives and coaching stock, and we have included a detail shot of this attractive transfer. The GN was a pioneer operator of diesel railcars, and cars F and G of 1938 were articulated units with a central power house flanked by two passenger units. Railcar F became UT No 104, and a rare view shows this historic unit on the Bann viaduct on 1 September 1964. In 1948 the GN ordered the first multiple unit fleet to operate in the British Isles, the cars being delivered in 1950. GN No 611 went to the UTA in 1958, becoming No 115, and is wearing UTA GN- section blue and cream livery as it accelerates past the splitting home signal at Belfast Great Victoria St station in 1964. Finally, we take a look at the last flourish of GN steam, the McIntosh Class Vs 4-4-0 of 1948. No 207 BOYNE went to CIE in 1958 but was sold to the UTA in 1963. She is at Portadown on a Dublin express on 29 August 1964, still garbed in GN blue and with a full set of plates. A copy of these notes accompanies the set. These views are copyright; Reproduction by any means is prohibited without our prior written permission
This
set of views of the legendary Great Northern Railway (Ireland) commences with
an elevated vantage point of the train shed at Great Victoria St terminus in
Belfast with Murray’s tobacco factory next to the station, and the UTA bus
station to the right. It is an evocative reminder of a lost world! Two GN locos, the nearest being a class xx
4-4-0 No 27, drift through the long closed Enniskillen station. Dating from
1892 as a class P, No 27 was rebuilt to Ps class in 1932 and went to CIE in
1958. The much larger No 135, a class Q 4-4-0 of 1899 was rebuilt as Qs and
went to the UTA. She is at Derry shed in 1931 and has the GNR tablet catcher on
the tender, which resembles a miniature TPO net. Class JT 2-4-2T No 93 of 1895 is on a Dundalk Newry
& Greenore service on 7 June 1948, the leading 6w coach still in DNG plum
and spilt milk livery. Nos, 116, a class
T2 4-4-2T of 1924, and the brand new 201, Meath,
a brand new class U 4-4-0, are on Amiens St shed on 5 June 1948. Nos 190 Lugnaquilla
and 157, class S2 and QL 4-4-0s double head a Belfast express ex Amiens St on 5
June 1948. No 170 Errigal, a class S
-4-4-0 poses next to Murray’s Tobacco factory at Great Victoria St on 28 August
1964. VS class 4-4-0 No 207 leaves Portadown on a Dublin Express on 29 August
1964. UTA No 36, former GNR No 49, a class SG3 shunts at Portadown yard on 29
August 1964. UTA No 40, former GN No 18, a class SG2 heads parcels stock over
the Bann viaduct to the south of Portadown passenger station on 29 August 1964,
a rare view actually taken FROM the bridge itself!
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This bargain set comprises all the prints in the three Great Northern Railway (Ireland) sets.