The Tralee Blog

As announced a few days ago the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway is back in operation, after it had had to cease scheduled travels in the midst of the 2006 season due to massive technical problems with the solitary steam engine. While 5T is still out of service the train is not, because the guys from the railway now managed to source a diesel engine. And today at 10:40 (two hours ago) the small train made its first journey from Blennerville to Tralee after almost three years downtime. It will now continue to travel between the two stations hourly, starting on the full hour from the Aquadome in Tralee and at the half hour from the Blennerville Windmill. [»]

Just a short, but rather great notice: The railway will finally be operational again after a break of 3 years. The steam engine 5T is still in dire need of repair, but at least it has been removed from the open yard and is now stored safe and dry inside the shed. The work will be done by two diesels instead, the first journey will commence on next saturday , 1. August at 10:30 am. And yes, I am talking about 2009. I’ll try to be there! More pictures after the break. [»]

Just about one year after my first report on the  state of the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway I decided that it’s time to update the pictures, so all the photographs below have been taken today. [»]

Short notice: Ryanair just announced a new route from Kerry Airport. Starting from 20/12/2008 you can fly directly from Kerry to Grenoble in south-east France. Wikipedia says the town is also known as the “Capital of the Alps”, with twenty ski stations nearby. So what about some winter sports this year? 

As I expected in a posting in march this year there was no steam train to be seen on the last remaining part of the historic Tralee-Dingle light railway, in fact there was no train at all. The problems with the old boiler seem to be more severe than initially thought and apparently the fate of 5-T is now in doubt. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that this will not be the end of the line… [»]