Vintage Rail Porn (diesel edition).
Circa 1964.
Hueston Station (Kingsbridge), St John’s Road, Dublin.
Irtish Railway Archives writes:
Guinness diesel locomotive No. 4 negotiates the traffic with a train of vans from St. James’s Gate Brewery….
Hic.
Name that purple car (right), anyone?
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I have a very pleasant mental image of those two front buffers on the train shooting out on springs to move any human obstacle. The LUAS could do with the same.
D’you know, or are you asking?
Looks like an old Austin A40.
Extreme left: Brenda Fricker, or Christy’s ma there out looking for Christy.
Out of sight: Junkies selling their methadone.
Wow that IS arousing
What is that red building there on the RHS and does it still exist?
Apparently not: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3459402,-6.2937157,3a,75y,89.63h,96.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sug7FBE21FfPvREo5lQ10Ww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Grma
Steevens Hospital Nurses Home.
https://dr-steevens-hospital-a-history.edwardworthlibrary.ie/nurses/nurses-home/
http://archiseek.com/2012/nursess-home-dr-steevens-hospital-dublin/
Claimed to have been demolished to give a better view of the main hospital from the road, more likely because it was obsolete.
An Opel Rekord is my guess.
Yea, Opel Rekord P2. Thought it was a Kapitaen at first, but the grill is definitley a Rekord.
The purple car is a Humber Snipe estate
Paul, correct. Well spotted.
Fair dues :)