This collection is going to be used to do a photographic survey of the railway in Balbriggan over the years. Some defining moments include the derailment of 123 with a Mk. 3 push-pull train, the replacement of the 'County Bridge' along with the upgrading of the line.

Over time I also hope to include the different types of trains that have served Balbriggan.

2008 also saw two different movemensts of DART units to Drogheda through Balbriggan.

The IRRS organised a rail tour on Saturday 27th June 2009 utilising a Mark 3 set. The route was Connolly to Limerick via Nenagh and return from Limerick to Connolly via a reverse at Tipperary. Alas due to the failure of 171 the train only made it back to Thurles. 152 and 171 were the locos for the day.

Highlights of the sixth trip to Kildare:
The two standby Mark 3 sets in use on the Cork line, a scheduled Mark 3 set on the Galway run, 082 & 6101 in the yard, 073 and 083 on engineer's trains.

04: IE started to re-logo the DARTs for their 25th anniversary.

17: Trip to Heuston and Adamstown. Mark 3 set on the 12:00 to Cork and a test train of 4 Mark 3s and 4 Mark 4s.

30: DART set 8603/04 in Drogheda, attending the wheel lathe.

11: A trip to Gormanston to see steam loco No.4 heading north with the RPSI Mark 2 rake.

20: 147 hauling a Japanese DART to Inchicore from Connolly.

26: A trip from Dublin to Limerick, to Waterford, and back to Dublin. 152 on a ballast in Limerick, 080 and 204 on empty timbers in Waterford.

Fifth trip to Kildare this year. Highlights include two orange 201s on matching Mark 3 rakes, two Mark 3 push/pulls in operation, two 201s on the Norfolks, one of them in Intercity livery, and 083 finally released by Inchicore on the oil train at Connolly.

Three days were spent on mainland Europe between 13th and 15th April 2009. Flew into Brussels, Thalys to Koln. Stayed there two nights and visited Aachen, Dusseldorf, Essen and Neuss. On the Wednesday got the ICE to Frankfurt from where flew back to Dublin.

April 1st: The month starts with a few shots from North Wall yard, with 078 on the bulk cement, as well as a few shots of work on the Luas extension to the Docklands.

The fourth, but third main one, visit to Kildare in 2009. Higlights from this trip include 088 on the empty timber, five workings involving Mark 3s, include a return working on the Cork run, 2721/20 going from Drogheda to Limerick, 22005 displaying two different styles of numbers and 22037 facing the wrong way.

Also included is a forty five minute sequence of strange operational manoeuvres while the empty timber was on the centre line.

A very brief forty-five minutes in Kildare on a Sunday afternoon.