Irish Rail Fleet

Victor

Irish Rail seem to have updated their fleet pages (caution some of the pics are very big). Number of vehicles and photos included.

http://www.irishrail.ie/fleet_information/intercity_fleet.asp

Cookie_Monster

Nice, a few more stats would have been good though.

Didn't realise any 121's were still in use.

Apart from the power is there any difference between 141 and 181?

KC61

The update happened a while back, and is now long out of date!

The 2 x 121 Class locos, the Mk 2 coaches, the Mk 3 International set, some Mk 3 push/pull coaches and several Mark 3 coaches have since been withdrawn, and several 141/181 class locomotives withdrawn/scrapped.

Meanwhile none of the 6 car 22000 Class are in service yet.

dowlingm

plus that they are more interested in HP than seating on DMU/EMUs... let's face it if ppl want to know the HP of a DART that they can find it on IRN or the P11 member section.

L1011

121s are used in the North Wall yard for random duties still are they not?

The 141s and 181s are identical bar the engines I'm almost sure from having read an ITG book ages ago...

Ham'nd'egger

The last 2 examples of 121's were withdrawn officially this June and have not seen action in God knows how long aside from a bit of shunting. The shunting duties in North Wall are left to the Connolly Pilot loco as the main of the trains that reach the yard go out as they came in so no shunting is needed.

The main differences in a 141 and 181 are in the engine and bogie and driving motors; the 141 has a 950 Bhp 567 series GM engine whereas the 181 has an 654 series engine running at 1,100 Bhp but as such they are similar in terms of driving and other duties.

SeanW

KC61 wrote: »

Meanwhile none of the 6 car 22000 Class are in service yet.

A part of me still loves those old Mk2ds. R.I.P.
But enough of that. What's the story with the 6 car 22ks? IIRC they landed in Ireland in March or thereabouts, how long does it take to commission a new trainset?

dowlingm wrote: »

plus that they are more interested in HP than seating on DMU/EMUs... let's face it if ppl want to know the HP of a DART that they can find it on IRN or the P11 member section.

That's Rail Users Ireland. And there's been a strategic move away from techie stuff, so you'd be hard pressed to find this info there even in the members section unless you specifically requested it.

For semi-pointless statistics, IRN is yer only man.

Judgement Day

SeanW wrote: »

A part of me still loves those old Mk2ds. R.I.P.
But enough of that. What's the story with the 6 car 22ks? IIRC they landed in Ireland in March or thereabouts, how long does it take to commission a new trainset?


That's Rail Users Ireland. And there's been a strategic move away from techie stuff, so you'd be hard pressed to find this info there even in the members section unless you specifically requested it.

For semi-pointless statistics, IRN is yer only man.

Here, here to that! IRN is the home of semi-pointless statistics and much more besides. It is is to the Web what the Irish Railway Record Society HQ at Heuston is to the actual trainspotter - somewhere to keep warm other than dossing behind the columns of the Customs House.

Cookie_Monster

Judgement Day wrote: »

IRN

Link? I can't find it...

Ham'nd'egger

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Link? I can't find it...

www.irishrailwaynews.com but it's not much more than a forum board and links to other sites.

dowlingm

re: P11 - I don't hold to all them rebrandings. I still want to call Snickers Marathons :D:D:D

Run_to_da_hills

I just hope those 121 class locos got a good home and were retained as a pair. It would have been a sacrilege if they were split up as they have been kept together most of their entire working life. I use to see these almost daily on the Rosslare route. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuURjGaofzk

Victor

They are train locomotives, not a married couple.