The document contains 5 photographs from Clones, Ireland documenting railway activity between 1954 and 1959. The photographs show various steam locomotives switching trains, including a class 0-6-0 placing coaches, a class 4-4-0 switching empty cattle wagons, a class 0-6-0 shunting a goods train with covered vans and steel wagons carrying sugar beets, a railcar working a mail and parcel train, and a busy scene with 3 locomotives switching trains at the station.

1. In the shadow of the Catholic Church at Clones, AL class 0-6-0 No 56 is seen placing the
through coach for Belfast in the loop after detaching it from the back of an up
Bundoran Express. Beyond the Belfast coach, the Tea Car waits to be added to the
front of the Bundoran to Dublin Bundoran Express. No 56 was built at Dundalk in 1896
and had been named “Omagh” before 1914.
In the background, a P 6’6” class 4-4-0 is on the turntable.
Photographer Unknown.

2. In Clones, P class 4-4-0 No 105 gets away past the goods store with a train of
empty cattle wagons for the Enniskillen line on Saturday 31 July 1954. No
105 was built at Dundalk in 1906 and was named “Foyle” before 1914.
Photo by R M Arnold

3. SG3 class 0-6-0 No 49 is shunting a Clones to Dundalk goods train on Tuesday 1 October 1957.
The leading vehicles are covered vans and they are followed by a string of CIE
open wagons built the year before to the design of Oliver Bulleid.
These wagons pioneered all-steel construction with triangulated underframes and corrugated sides an
Many survived carrying beets until the Irish sugar industry disappeared in 2006.
Here these wagons are conveying loads of sugar beet to the Comhlucht Suicre Éireann sugar factory
There was also beet traffic from Carrickmacross, Inniskeen and Essexford to Carlow.
Photo by Drew Donaldson (NW9)

4. Railcar C2 pauses here while working the daily 11.00 am mail and parcel train
from Dundalk to Clones and Cavan on Thursday 31 July 1959.
The signal cabin is to the left and the goods store to the right.
Photo by Edward M Patterson (EMP044D, C P Friel collection)

5. Clones A busy scene photographed from the footbridge about 6.30pm on Saturday 16 June
1951. The loco at the bottom of the picture is PP class 4-4-0 No 107 (built by Beyer Peacock in
1906) with load of briquetted coal in her tender. It is sitting in the middle road between Platforms
One and Two and is probably waiting to shunt a van on or off the back of the 4.25pm Dundalk to
Enniskillen train. The middle engine is QL class 4-4-0 No 156 (built by North British in 1904) with
the 6.15pm for Portadown and Belfast. At the top of the picture is an unidentified UG class 0-6-0
with the 1.25pm from Derry to Dundalk.