With Lance King in Ireland 1958-1963

Leslie McAllister offers a first selection of colour photographs taken by the late Lance King in the Republic of Ireland in the last years of steam. Lance was a skilled photographer and left a fine record of steam in the Dublin area and on the fondly remembered branches such as Kenmare, Loughrea, Ballaghadereen, Edenderry, Tullow, Clara and Youghal. Steam and diesel in daily service on the Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway feature, as does the memorable railtour with the last “Bandon tank”. The early days of silver and “black and tan” liveried diesels can be glimpsed along the way. A time of great change.”
This talk was first given to the Irish Railway Record Society in 2019, to whom Lance bequeathed his Irish photographic collection and is one of three talks covering the period from 1957 to 1970, when steam ended in Northern Ireland.