3rd June 1961

Irish Railway Record Society
Meath Lines Rail Tour

Locos Used CIE (ex-GNR) Class Qs 4-4-0: 132N
Stock Used load 7 (5x modern CIE coaches, brake/luggage van & GN kitchen car)

Route :

Loco Route
132N

Dublin Amiens Street - Newcomen Jn - Liffey Jn - Clonsilla - Navan - Kingscourt
132N Kingscourt - Navan
132N Navan - Oldcastle
132N Oldcastle - Navan - Drogheda - Skerries - Howth Junction - Dublin Amiens Street

Notes :
(1) Members of the RCTS and SLS also participated in this tour as an appetiser to the joint RCTS/SLS/IRRS tour of 4th to 9th June.
(2) It is reported that the loco got stuck on the turntable at Kingscourt.

Sources : John Debens & Andrew Fairholm

Photo Review


132 at Oldcastle, Co Meath (photo: The John Debens Collection)


From The John Debens Ticket Collection.


Timings (Booked & Actual)
(from Keith Thompson courtesy of Ian Clark (SLS))

Location Booked Actual
Dublin Amiens Street 12.20d 12.23
Clonsilla 12/40 12/43
Dunboyne 12.48 ~ 12.58 12.52 ~ 13.04
Batterstown 13.12 ~ 13.22 13.18 ~ 13.26
Drumree 13.30 ~ 13.40 13.33 ~ 13.42
Kilmessan 13.54 ~ 14.04 13.55 ~ 14.04
Bective 14.11 ~ 14.21 14.11 ~ 14.22
Navan Jn 14/33 14/31
Gibbstown 14.43 ~ 14.55 14.40 ~ 14.51
Wilkinstown 15.01 ~ 15.11 14.59 ~ 15.08
Nobber 15.27 ~ 15.37 15.23 ~ 15.34
Kilmainham Wood 15.45 ~ 15.55 15.42 ~ 15.51
Kingscourt 16.10 ~ 16.25 16.03 ~ 17.16
Navan MGW 17.15 ~ 17.40 18.03 ~ 18.46
Ballybeg 17.51 ~ 18.00 18/59
Kells 18.08 ~ 18.18 19.09 ~ 19.14
Oldcastle 18.40 ~ 19.00 19.39 ~ 19.59
Navan GN 19.40 ~ 20.00 20.38 ~ 20.42
Drogheda 21.00 ~ 21.30 21.12 ~ 21.33
Howth Junction 22/04 22/04
Dublin Amiens Street 22.10a 22.15


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