Train porn

flyingsnail

timelapse video of the construction of Borough Viaduct London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjmz-XJcVEI

Cookie_Monster

cool vid, leaves it a bit unfinished though

LEIN

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

cool vid, leaves it a bit unfinished though

My exact thoughts.

flyingsnail

Some shunting at RPSI Whitehead, including the arrival of 186.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvynxymN56o

Itssoeasy

Eiretrains

In case anyone hasn't checked out this railway yet, worth a look.:)

dowlingm

Britain's Ghost Trains (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18644343

Our man in Havana

dowlingm wrote: »

Britain's Ghost Trains (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18644343

Would IE get away with that here?

Judgement Day

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Would IE get away with that here?

The South Wexford line? The Waterford/Limerick Junction line was also operated like that for several decades.

dowlingm

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Would IE get away with that here?

I suspect Northern Rail looked on in envy at how easily IE shut down South Wexford without any pesky Public Inquiry, thus why would they need to?

end of the road

could you imagine if CIE and BR had implemented such a scheme? they could have ran a train down it slowly once a week or month and have someone go ahead to operate level crossings. at least CIE could say a line was a working railway unlike now where IE say its a working railway even though the last train ran 40 years ago. all though it would have probably cost more to do such a thing then lift the line to make sure it could never reopen or be used for anything else.

Judgement Day

And now in a blatant attempt to sell something - but not the item pictured here.



One of the few remaining items in my rapidly diminishing railwayana collection - a ticket issued to myself and a friend on the 19/8/79 to travel between Youghal and Midleton. It was on one of CIE's "Summer Sunday" specials which were a closely guarded secret outside the Cork area. Intermediate travel such as Youghal-Midleton was unheard of hence the excess fare ticket. Sadly by their nature, such things are very faint and the 33 years since its issue have not helped but its just about readable - sentimental value only I suspect.

I am selling some interesting tickets here: http://www.adverts.ie/other-antiques-collectables/irish-railway-tickets/1822470

Here's one of the 'secret' ads from the Cork Evening Echo - used to appear only in this paper a couple of evenings before the specials were due to operate and there was NO other advertising!

cocoshovel

Shinkansen(Bullet train) in Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJtlkCVkSg

Our man in Havana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM5WUmcBRQA

Judgement Day

From a time when men were men and xxxxxy was the name of a flower. Great sound effects too!

newmug

Here's one for yiz. I was travelling along the M6 heading towards Galway yesterday. At the turnoff for Loughrae, I saw what appeared to be a 121 class loco just sitting in someone's backyard to my right! What the fluck is that all about? Does anyone know anything about this, or was I halucinating?

Eiretrains

newmug wrote: »

Here's one for yiz. I was travelling along the M6 heading towards Galway yesterday. At the turnoff for Loughrae, I saw what appeared to be a 121 class loco just sitting in someone's backyard to my right! What the fluck is that all about? Does anyone know anything about this, or was I halucinating?

No you weren't, but it wasn't a 121 Class, it's an E Class loco. It is preserved, along with some other vintage stock at the restored Dunsandle station on the former Loughrea branch line.
http://dunsandlerailwaystation.blogspot.ie/

Judgement Day

Earlier post on E428 here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=71829176&postcount=90

Losty Dublin

No better sound than the muffled roar of the Gm engine from the cab of a 001 class.

dowlingm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovMnyoJfj0k

Rud

What's this?John Mullane walking around the yard in Waterford with no high vis vest or no safety boots???Hitting sliotars around??Walking on container flat wagons??Oh no,the H+S will have field day:D.I love this video especially with the stored/rotting MK3s in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QzMZ8zCpTM

CIE

dowlingm wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovMnyoJfj0k

Yes...underground LRT through a city centre. Must have been too old of an idea for Dublin to look at...

Judgement Day

Rud wrote: »

What's this?John Mullane walking around the yard in Waterford with no high vis vest or no safety boots???Hitting sliotars around??Walking on container flat wagons??Oh no,the H+S will have field day:D.I love this video especially with the stored/rotting MK3s in the background

Great example for kids. Breaking beer bottles all over the place is great craic - why not break the Mk III windows with the sliotar or better still use ballast instead. :rolleyes:

steamengine

What's he walking round the yard for at all ? Do the same rules not apply to sports stars as the rest of us ? Some poor kid could get minced (literally) by emulating their hero somewhere else round the country. The message wants to go out 'Do not trespass on railway lines - they are lethal'. :mad:

flyingsnail

Judgement Day wrote: »

Great example for kids. Breaking beer bottles all over the place is great craic - why not break the Mk III windows with the sliotar or better still use ballast instead. :rolleyes:

steamengine wrote: »

What's he walking round the yard for at all ? Do the same rules not apply to sports stars as the rest of us ? Some poor kid could get minced (literally) by emulating their hero somewhere else round the country. The message wants to go out 'Do not trespass on railway lines - they are lethal'. :mad:

boards.ie / talkto / three

Judgement Day

flyingsnail wrote: »

boards.ie / talkto / three

I'm very old and don't get it - please explain?

flyingsnail

Judgement Day wrote: »

I'm very old and don't get it - please explain?

are they not the ones that made that video?

cbl593h

Judgement Day wrote: »

Great example for kids. Breaking beer bottles all over the place is great craic - why not break the Mk III windows with the sliotar or better still use ballast instead. :rolleyes:

Wasting "laaarrge" bottles is the most painful part of that film. :eek:

yachtsman

Dos'nt it say something when film makers and advertising companys can rely on railway yards and property to provide the ideal setting for desolation and depressing images...and of course Irish Rail facilitate them. On the other hand when a few railway fans want to take pictures at a station of the bright side of trains they are told to sod off by Euro Psudo Police. Not much chance the film-makers would be accomodated by Aer Rianta for their portrayals of recession and anti-social behavior in the vicinity of the Airport where there are similar lower scale vistas that are kept well out of the public view. IE parade such evidence in the Centre of Dublin, in Dundalk and in Waterford as if it was something to be proud of. Remember the ad giving the impression that the train driver in Heuston had benefiited from an adult learning course in reading and writing and was delighted he could now read the electronic timetable....imagine the answer you'd get if you suggested to Aer Lingus that one of their pilots would be so portrayed. Anyway there are almost as many parked and redundant mark threes; railcars and believe it or not "new" intercity railcars and DARTS now as there are in service. No wonder it appears that the Minister of Transport has no interest in pumping good money after bad into IE. Its really hard to blame him.

dowlingm

CIE wrote: »

Yes...underground LRT through a city centre. Must have been too old of an idea for Dublin to look at...

Pretty controversial in this town. The mayor wanted to bury the whole line by raiding funding for other LRT projects which is dumb when you have committed to an order for road-standard LRVs rather than lighter models which don't have to take a lateral hit. Now people are waking up to the fact that there's going to be huge holes in the road for the next 8-10 years in some very high traffic intersections to build station boxes. Fun times ahead! Needs to be done though, the buses are stacked up behind the other at present with no scope for BRT in the central part of the line.

The line does not go through the city centre per se, which is down near the lake front. However given Dublin's density phobia I suppose you could call it that for comparison purposes.