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Stobart Scania R series Topline drawbar unit, PO62 XPC, named Blake Ellie, is captured in Carlisle, heading towards the Kingstown depot.
Waxwings on the Kingstown Industrial Estate, Carlisle, 4 December 16.
I'd been ignoring all of the Waxwing reports in the Carlisle area this winter, as I was sure that I couldn't improve on the digiscoped shots taken a few years ago, and I had other things I was focusing on. However, when a sizeable flock was spotted yesterday in the car park of the local McDonald's - just a five-minute walk up the road - I thought I'd better have a crack at them anyway!
View from from McKies Hill of Kingstown, the capital of St Vincent and The Grenadines. The quay where the pleasure cruisers dock can be seen on the extreme right.
The first Lafarge cement train to use the Carlisle Warehousing Ltd/Lafarge railhead on the Brunthill line (former Waverley Line trackbed) for a number of years, the 6M01 03:41 from Oxwellmains with Freightliner Heavyhaul 66607 at the head of a raft of 'PCA' cement tanks on 22nd June 2012. The road-rail interface last accepted railfreight in 2010 before the twice weekly rail deliveries of tinplate coil by DB Schenker were terminated by the customer. The terminal was upgraded in 2003 with the award of a Government Freight Facilities of £664k and as a result a new rail-served warehouse and concrete apron were installed, intended for the handling and storage of bagged and bulk cement. In the event the facilities were was not used for very long, so it is to be hoped that this spacious area of hard-standing sees plenty of activity in the months to come!
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Here's a brand new, un-liveried Stobart Scania R440 6x2, at the Kingstown depot, in Carlisle. The reg no. is PY63 HVE.
A ferry leaves the mainland for the Grenadine island of Bequia. The ride is about an hour, but can be quite challenging at times given the rough seas, particularly at this time of the year.
The Postcard
A postally unused Valentine's Series postcard that has a divided back.
Dún Laoghaire Harbour
Kingstown Harbour was renamed Dún Laoghaire Harbour in 1924.
Dún Laoghaire Harbour and Carlisle Pier were constructed in the nineteenth century for the purposes of sheltering ships and accommodating the mailboat which sailed between Dún Laoghaire and Holyhead. The nearby settlement of Dún Laoghaire has also previously been known as Kingstown and also as Dun Leary. Carlisle Pier has been known previously as Kingston Pier and the Mailboat Pier.
The Harbour Today
The east and west piers of the harbour are each 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long, and enclose an area of 250 acres (1.0 km2) with the harbour entrance being 232 metres (761 ft) across.
The harbour is divided into four major inner harbours by various piers and breakwaters. In the south west corner the Old Harbour (sometimes termed the Inner Coal Harbour) is enclosed by the Old Pier constructed in 1767. The Old Harbour incorporates a tidal public slipway.
The exit from the Old Harbour leads to the Coal Harbour, bounded by the Traders Wharf which possesses a non-tidal public slipway. The Coal Harbour leads past the Marina Harbour which was created around 2001 together with the Western Breakwater and Eastern Breakwater to protect smaller boats.
The Main Harbour covers the sweep from the Northern and Eastern breakwaters which mark a broadly North north east direction road past the harbour entrance and including all of the eastern part of the Harbour including St. Michael's Pier and Carlisle Pier and the five ship berths.
Almost 200 years of a Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire passenger ferry service ended in 2014 when Stena consolidated all its services on Dublin Port. The port accommodates passenger cruise ships with seven visits in 2019, although two were too large for the harbour, and had to moor outside and be serviced by tender.
History of Dún Laoghaire Harbour
A natural cove or creek was developed into what became known as the Old Harbour. In the eighteenth century Dún Laoghaire was a small village, variously termed Dunlary or Dunleary, supporting a small fishing community.
Problems with silting and shifting sand bars in Dublin Bay meant some ships took to transferring passengers by tender to the cove when weather and tides prevented entry to Dublin. Eventually following a parliamentary petition, Charles Vallancey oversaw construction of a pier in 1767. While initially successful, if soon became victim to silting and became known for a while as the 'Dry Pier'.
William Bligh mapped and charted Dublin Bay at the start of the nineteenth century and proposed a refuge harbour be built at Dún Laoghaire.
The problem of frequent shipwrecks from easterly gales with nowhere for shelter around Dublin Bay came to a head in 1807 with the loss of Rochdale and Prince of Wales. Searches for an asylum harbour for ships in rough weather found Dún Laoghaire to be a suitable location for the construction of such a harbour with a suitable depth of water close to the shore.
The efforts of Richard Toutcher in advocating the harbour and securing the stone quarrying facilities at Dalkey were particularly noted. Construction of the East Pier to a design by John Rennie began in 1817 with Earl Whitworth Lord Lieutenant of Ireland laying the first stone.
Rennie had concerns a single pier would be subject to silting, and by 1820 gained support for construction of the Western pier to begin shortly afterwards.
When King George IV left Ireland from the harbour in 1820, Dunleary was renamed Kingstown, a name that was to remain in use for nearly 100 years. The harbour was named the Royal Harbour of George the Fourth which seems not to have remained for so long.
1824 saw over 3,000 boats shelter in the partially completed harbour, but it also saw the beginning of operations off the North Wall which alleviated many of the issues ships were having accessing Dublin Port.
In 1826 Kingstown harbour gained the important mail packet service which at the time was under the stewardship of the Admiralty with a wharf completed on the East Pier in the following year. The service was transferred from Howth whose harbour had suffered from silting and the need for frequent dredging.
By 1842 the largest man-made harbour in Western Europe had been completed with the construction of the East Pier lighthouse after some disagreements were resolved on how to complete the harbour opening.
The harbour was further enhanced by completion of Traders Wharf in 1855 and Carlisle Pier in 1856. The mid 1850's also saw the completion of the West Pier lighthouse.
Kingstown reverted to the name Dún Laoghaire in 1920 and in 1924 the harbour was officially renamed Dún Laoghaire Harbour.
Carlisle Pier
Construction of the pier started in 1853 and was completed in 1855. The railway station opened in 1859. The pier was named after the Earl of Carlisle, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In subsequent years many Irish people emigrated from it.
The RMS Leinster departed from the pier on her final voyage in 1918.
In 1953 a passenger lounge was built along the east side of the pier and around the end with sheds added in the 1960's.
In 2009 the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company began demolishing the 1960's structures, preserving the cast-iron columns of the original 1850's structure. The harbour company had been accused of planning to demolish the pier itself by Richard Boyd Barrett, an accusation the company rejected.
There had been a number of buildings proposed to be built on the pier over the years, but all have fallen through. The building infrastructure is now removed, and pier is currently used as a car park, boat storage, unloading of unusual cargoes and special events such as funfairs.
St. Michael's Pier
The port's first car ferry service operated on the 9th. July 1965 by the Normannia using a temporary terminal on the East Pier. The 175 metres (574 ft) purpose-built with a capacity of 650 cars per day twin berth St. Michael's Pier was opened on the 9th. March 1969 by Holyhead Ferry.
Rhogogaster species of Sawfly found near the Kingstown Wildlife Pond, Carlisle, 17 June 22.
Thankfully this individual was so intent on feeding that I managed to get some pretty decent shots without disturbing it.
It would appear to be either Rhogogaster scalaris (aka R. viridis) or Rhogogaster chlorosoma, both of which are pretty common and are difficult to tell apart.
Captured leaving Kingstown, Carlisle, is this Lewis Tankers MAN TGS, reg no. NU62 LZO, with a tanker trailer, no. SGIU 000907 6 42T7.