We produce two different sets on this legendary railway. Each set consists of 10 6x4 ins prints and you can order one set or several sets. The details of the sets are as follows.

Tralee & Dingle NG Ry Set BW1 10 6x4 Black+White Prints

The three foot gauge Tralee & Dingle Railway ran for 30 miles into the remote Dingle Peninsula. Passenger services ended in 1939, and general freight ended in 1947, but a once monthly cattle special ran for the Dingle fair until 1953, and this remote railway became a source of pilgrimage to those who heard of this extraordinary anachronism.  This set of ten views recalls the Dingle train in April 1953, two months before the line finally closed.  We open at Tralee station, as Hunslet 2-6-0T No 8T is opposite the disused station buildings on the run-round loop. A rake of wagons, including a couple of opens, the unique horsebox No 1T, a cattle wagon, and some vans occupies the adjacent siding, and provides inspiration for the modeller.  Steam and smoke billow from No 8T and 1T, the last two engines in running order at Tralee station in a dramatic portrait of the Dingle railway.  No 2T, another Hunslet 2-6-0T, had failed in November 1952, and is seen lying out of use in Tralee shed in April 1953. Soon she will go for scrap. 8T and 1T pause to take water at Castlegregory Junction, which was 10 miles and forty minutes from Tralee. The same train is also seen from the solitary goods siding at the Tralee end of the station, whilst a detail shot of the train recalls an original van with planks removed for cattle, drop ventilator cattle No 78T of 1922, open Hurst Nelson cattle No 50 of 1905, a 1907 MRC&W roofed cattle, and brake van No 5T. We join No 8T and look back as 1T and the rest of the train round the fearsome exit curve off the Finglas viaduct at Carraduff. Steam and smoke drifts across the road as 8T and 1T breast the summit at Glenagalt, one of the two summits on the Dingle railway.  Our next view is after arrival of Dingle. No 8T has already run to shed to turn and water, and No 1T is about to uncouple from the leading wagon, which is No 36, an 1894 Bristol open. Our final view is of 8T at Dingle, completing a wonderful record of an extraordinary railway that came alive for a single day once a month. The last cattle trains ran in June 1953 and the final clearance specials the following month and the Dingle passed into legend. A copy of these notes accompanies the set. These views are copyright; Reproduction by any means is prohibited without our prior written permission.

Tralee & Dingle NG Ry Set BC2 10 6x4 BW & Colour Prints

The three foot gauge Tralee & Dingle Railway ran for 30 miles into the remote Dingle Peninsula. Passenger services ended in 1939, and general freight ended in 1947, but a once monthly cattle special ran for the Dingle fair until 1953, and this remote railway became a source of pilgrimage to those who heard of this extraordinary anachronism.  This set of ten views recalls the Dingle train in April 1953, two months before the line finally closed, and the short restored section with TDLR 2-62T No 5 in the 1990s. We open with a wonderful shot taken from the footplate of 2-6-0T No 8T showing No 1T about to cross over Lispole viaduct with a stock train in April 1953, the pilot engine having for once uncoupled, as per regulations, and run ahead of the train to avoid the concentrated weight of two engines next to one another.  8T is reunited with 1T at Annascaul, and is blocking the level crossing as 1T takes water from the inconveniently located water tank just beyond the road crossing. The locomen take the opportunity to check round their venerable machines during the watering stop.  No 8T waters at Dingle in a nice broadside study that shows the water tank and shed doors. A further view at Dingle shows the engine watering and a cattle van and one of the converted bogie guard/cattle vans as well.  Our last 1953 scene is at Tralee, and is of a row of stock with the two engines in the distance ready to depart for Dingle. In 1959, TDLR 2-6-2T No 5 was preserved in the USA, returning to Ireland in 1986. This was the catalyst to restoring a short section of the TDLR from the outskirts of Tralee to Blennerville, with a 1994 opening. We see 5T ready to depart from the new station at Tralee Ballyard in 1996, en route in a sylvan setting, and running round at Blennerville. We also see the abandoned Lispole viaduct, its slender lattice girders still in situ almost half a century after the line closed, and the sharply curved Curraduff viaduct, the scene of a tragic accident in 1893, as well.  A copy of these notes accompanies the set. These views are copyright; Reproduction by any means is prohibited without our prior written permission.