Links were checked on
3/02/21.
Although I have visited many sites, I will limit myself to
listing a few on the subjects
covered here.
Links were checked on 3/02/21.
The recommendations here were dated. Perhaps it is best to look at the Railserve directory for links to more recent sites.
Lenz GmbH Home Page. For product info on DCC, but for some time now no longer in English.
The NMRA home page provides links to all DCC standards try here. For general modelling supplies Walthers, although with the expected US bias, is pretty broad. Hattons of Liverpool are a good European source. For broad background material and links on railways of the British Isles, see the comprehensive Historical Model Railway Collectors' Society pages.
For modellers who are US Lionel collectors
try Dave's
Trains.
Gloucester
Worcestershire Railwayana was the first real on-line
railwayana auction. Early ambitions of monthly on line
auctions seem to have settled down to normal auctions
every six months, often with items of Irish interest, and auctions are
back online.
SRA,
has been acquired by Great Central
Railwayana Auctions and is gradually being brought
within the fold. Original SRA back auction information is
now no longer available. Talisman Railwayana
Auctions has been holding telephone auctions. . Bristol Railwayana
Auctions last auction was in October 2019 but an auction in April
2021 is to be confirmed. Thirsk
Auction Markt had a regular railwayana auction on 29/9/20 and will
have others on 12 June and 18 September 2021. But the details can be a
bit sparse. Relatively new auction sites are Stafford which seems to have morphed
under the banner of Railway Auctions UK into mid-Hants Railwayana and
Crewe Heritage auctions, and
Great Northern
Railwayana Auctions. Justaclickago Auctions
would seem now to mainly auction photographs. I am not very sure as
to how one can see exactly what one is buying (e.g. see the only obvious
Irish Lot, No. 174 'Railways in Ireland 1960's' in their August 2020
auction which sold for £675 but the only details given are
approx. 240 Kodak colour slides from 7 locations with an 8th truncated
and the 1960's is even qualified by 'some later'!. The purchaser of the
Railway Collectors Journal established a railwayana portal when the
magazine stopped publication. In late 2007 the site adopted
the subscription model. Onslows has one
of the best selections of posters, often with images of UK
Irish related as well as Irish posters on its site. In June
2007 it moved over to internet only auctions.
Bonhams had interesting items in the past at its
Knowle
sales of toys, dolls and railwayana. However the last such
sale I have seen was nearly ten years ago on 27/9/11 and railwayana,
dolls or toys is not to be found on a search from their home page. Paddington
Ticket Auction usually has quite a few Irish tickets in
its main auctions. The site of Gloucester
Antiques has Irish items now and then - with several
buttons of late. There is a railwayana sales diary by
Tony
Hillman on the prorail site). A relatively
new auction site, now also part of the GCR stable and
seemingly being wound down, is railwayana.net.
A particularly interesting collection of Irish items
is held at the Narrow Gauge Museum at Tywyn in Wales.
Browse through their collection
for CDRJC, Skull and Skibbereen, Cavan & Leitrim, LLSR,
CVR, etc. items. Purcells in Co.
Offaly had a major auction of Irish railway
stuff in February 2019 snd now and then have items in their regular
on-line auctions.
Northern Ireland Railways have been part of Translink for some time now, but I keep on getting timed out. The Iarnród Éireann site moved some time ago and received a considerable revamp (answering the campaign here, carried out over sixteen updates!). The Irish Railway Record Society has a useful site with information on articles in their latest Journals. The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland moved from its old address some time ago to the Irish Steam Preservation Society. The various Cavan and Leitrim and West Clare sites have disappeared. For the BCDR, go to the Downpatrick and County Down Railway Museum site has an interesting page describing its rolling stock. While disappearing in November from its previous location, in January 2006 the Irish Traction Group was found at a new url. There is an excellent Irish narrow gauge site, with a wealth of information on locos, builders, stations and even precise links to map references. It also has pictures of CDRJC tickets but shows little new activity since mid-2004. It will also point you to sources for most Irish railway books. The Waterford and Suir Valley Railway site has good information on the Waterford area and Hell's Kitchen has a great collection of Irish railwayana. A recently discovered site has Irish tokens, including tramway and railway. If you are anywhere near Enniskillen and in need of a haircut with a railwayana backdrop, try Headhunters which has a magnificent museum. But the new website might be a little while more coming.
The European Railfan page has enough European links to keep you going for the day.
While this and its companion site are primarily focused on Irish railways, an interesting site in the US, was brought to my attention some time ago, as was Model Railroads and Freight Cars this year. These sites are the tip of the iceberg for the US, or even more so for the rest of the world. I frequently visit the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, which, as well as having the largest permanent model railway display in North America, has a really impressive library (with even several books on Irish railways). Also I have neglected trams etc. And while I was only 3 when they disappeared in Dublin, as a kid I took the Howth tram many times before that ended in 1959. I am also advised that there is a serious US tram site here
Paul Stevens, previously of PC Plus Magazine, for his excellent series and advice (with the forms page, I am now up to his November 1996 article) but the site has not been updated for some time, I am grateful for Marco van Uden's extensive company logos in his links page on the European Railfan Server which are still used, and to the MGWR authority, P O'Cuimin, for provenance of plates.
For those interested in genealogy, the Dublin Lenn*n pages, is the third site under management. The same information is somewhere on this site at this address where it will be updated. If you are not detained, try the link to Family Tree Maker although it has been bought out and seems to be winding down. You may even, like me, discover ancestors on the railways (granduncle William Casey was a driver on the GNRI and his son a fireman - thanks to the Irish Railway Record Society for filling in all the details from their employee database). Another justification for expenditure on GNR memorabilia!
Return to Index page,
or go to page 11, Irish railwayana:
some photos.
Alternatively, go to my
railwayana.com pages
for company data
For genealogy, go to my
Lennan
genealogy pages or their mirror on
this site
