Train porn

corktina

Derailment is a threat if you can't see whether the rails are actually there

flyingsnail

Came across this on youtube today

LEIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gtdNiR22po

GMKK96

Some freight and departmental workings filmed in Kildare including 088 heading light engine from Limerick to Inchicore to collect wagons, 226 with the North Wall to Ballina IWT liner, 088 returning to Limerick with two pocket wagons and a tara mines wagon, 224 with the Ballina to North Wall IWT liner, 078 running around in Kildare on the Waterford to Westport empty timber train whilst a health and safety crew tests the coupling and uncoupling of the train and 220 with the second North Wall to Ballina IWT liner.

Footage of Intercity passenger services at Kildare consisting mostly of 22000 class units of various forms with some Cork services consisting of push pull mk4 coaches pushed and pulled by 201 class locomotives.

metrovick001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y87vbHqcdPA

Eiretrains

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Eiretrains wrote: »

imagine that, trains traveling at speed in ireland, amazing how heuston routes still had mark 2 and cravens while sligo and rosslare had uncomfortable horrid commuter trains on all services, mind you it may as well still be the case as 29s seem to stalk me everytime i travel the rosslare line

FunkyDa2

Seen, passing through Salou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJn3YyqJhm0&list=UUXS_-LlxK0mvlYN9PE6zrIg

metrovick001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDY2CsAes7g

Cienciano

Saw this on reddit, a union pacific big boy on the way for restoration.

http://imgur.com/a/1D2oQ

Judgement Day

And now for something completely different.

Missed out on this on eBay tonight and so I had to resort to pinching the pics instead - much cheaper.

I'm posting this mainly for foggy_lad who hankers for the days when boy porters carried his luggage, doffed their caps and knew their place.

Just a couple of pics here and the rest are on my very rarely updated railway blog http://irishrailways.blogspot.ie/

corktina

Official photo with a big dent in the front :-)

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corktina wrote: »

Official photo with a big dent in the front :-)

I thought that myself but I think it's only a reflection.

cml387

Top favourites?

All they seem to be serving is Club Orange and Club Lemon.

Nothing will ever taste as good as the Canada Dry I had once as a young'un on The Irish Mail

Nibs05

Turn the second video up loud

Itssoeasy

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

dowlingm

30 years ago a band called the Spoons recorded a video in the Toronto subway system. To be seen: 1950s Gloucester steel (red) and aluminium (white) cars, 1960s and 1970s Hawker-Siddeley H-series cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vubMfPh7URs

Itssoeasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBG1110ayY4

lord lucan

Absolutely brilliant video of a football special to Dublin from Navan in 1991,some great footage of a very different railway to today.

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lord lucan wrote: »

Absolutely brilliant video of a football special to Dublin from Navan in 1991,some great footage of a very different railway to today.

no specials from navan since? the railway will be returned to the people of navan 1 day where it always should have been

Fred Swanson

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MGWR

Here's a Dublin that's served by BART instead of DART. Train pulling into the terminus in Dublin, California (Condae Alameda), in the middle of Interstate Highway 580. (Actually "Dublin/Pleasanton", since the highway and railway are on the border of the two cities.) Track gauge is 5' 6", actually three inches wider than Irish gauge. Train operation is fully automated, although there is a human driver in the cab in case the robot driver's software crashes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yifTM9g6SGI

metrovick001

I think the railbus went to Kingscourt in 1990.
There was a special from Navan to Connolly in 1996 for the final (Meath vs Mayo) if memory serves me right. Not sure if it ran on both days (there was a reply).
There was an 80 class to Navan in 1988 (86 or 68 I think). Run by the GSRPS (again...as far as I recal).

Fred Swanson wrote: »

The NIR Railbus went to Navan after that on a railtour.

Fred Swanson

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A 201 with a Mark 3 push-pull set went to Navan in the mid 90s.

Judgement Day

A grand day out it was.

Fred Swanson

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Judgement Day

Looking at the video really brings it back to me as to how daft it was not to reopen the line for passengers. Upgraded Navan would have been 'only an hour from Dublin' as the Ad used to go - instead we have Dempsey's railway to a field in Meath. :rolleyes:

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Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I had several trips in it and while it was very nippy, it was essentially a bus on rails with all the consequent drawbacks - noise in particular. Still and all it, or something like it, would be ideal on the Waterford/Rosslare or Nenagh/Limerick services....

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Judgement Day wrote: »

Looking at the video really brings it back to me as to how daft it was not to reopen the line for passengers. Upgraded Navan would have been 'only an hour from Dublin' as the Ad used to go - instead we have Dempsey's railway to a field in Meath.

the railway should never have been stolen from the people of navan in the first place, same with the main part of west cork and the harcourt street line, one day the line will be given back to the people of navan and the trains will return