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    #872
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Karsini wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure that it was reported at the time that freight accounted for 70% of IE's losses and that the government weren't willing to subsidise it.

    Only due to the aforementioned, inaccurate method of accounting costs to it. Entire maintenance costs of lines being attributed to the freight flows on them, not the far higher numbers of passenger trains.

    The only lines left operational now where the full cost needs to be considered as a freight cost are Platin-Tara and North Wall.


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    #873
    Losty Dublin
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    It didn't have close to the amount of effect that many people reckon it had, though it was a minor factor both directly and indirectly. Newer working patterns which came in after the ILDA dispute made working overtime a lot harder, partially to simplify rosters and partially to made adherence to the EU directed 48 hour working week a lot easier. Pre 2000, 50+ hour weeks for drivers were commonplace and it was not unheard of for drivers to have worked 60-70 hour weeks at times. But that's all for a different thread for a different day :)


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    #874
    Judgement Day
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    Came across this http://listowelconnection.blogspot.ie/2013/02/bord-na-mona-lidl-in-listowel-and.html tonight while looking for something else. Lyrecrompane or Barna (not made clear from the text) - remote peat railway locations in North Kerry and one of the few systems that I never got to. Long gone but there's supposed to bits and pieces still lying about in the bog.

    Fr+Browne+4.jpg

    Interesting for two reasons - the presence of Father Browne and an unusual Wickham railcar.


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    #875
    end of the road
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Came across this http://listowelconnection.blogspot.ie/2013/02/bord-na-mona-lidl-in-listowel-and.html tonight while looking for something else. Lyrecrompane or Barna (not made clear from the text) - remote peat railway locations in North Kerry and one of the few systems that I never got to. Long gone but there's supposed to bits and pieces still lying about in the bog.



    Interesting for two reasons - the presence of Father Browne and an unusual Wickham railcar.
    i suppose that railcar is long scrapped?

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #876
    Judgement Day
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    end of the road wrote: »
    i suppose that railcar is long scrapped?

    Probably, but there were some rusting relics still there in the 1990s.


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    #877
    Losty Dublin
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Probably, but there were some rusting relics still there in the 1990s.

    Rusting bog railways? Ideal for you know who :pac::D


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    #878
    lord lucan
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    Just uploading a few short videos taken today at Downpatrick for the ITG's Diesel Gala. They're on 1080p HD in case that's not your default setting on Youtube.



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    #879
    lord lucan
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    lord lucan
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    #881
    lord lucan
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    #882
    GMKK96
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    Irish Rail Freight, Passenger and Wagon Transfers at Portarlington 16-10-2014



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    #883
    end of the road
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    lord lucan wrote: »
    oh how i love that sound

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #884
    GMKK96
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    075 on a Portlaoise to Waterford materials train.



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    #885
    metrovick001
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    Very nicely done GMKK96.


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    #886
    GMKK96
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    Thanks Metrovick.

    Another video from today. I caught 085 and the preserved MK3 transfer at Dromkeen along with some passenger services.



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    #887
    MGWR
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    Back last March I posted a few pictures of steam engines running through flood waters. This one, an old Associated Press image, is more detailed; it's from 6 February 1937 and shows a Missouri Pacific train in Felton, Arkansas, with the water up to the bottom of the cylinders.
    10547341_10152940542388319_118798473132593684_o.jpg


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    #888
    SeanW
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    Least they wouldn't have needed to stop for water ...


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    #889
    Sheldons Brain
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    To commemorate the 25th anniversaty of Mauerfall, let us recall the DR
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URh-une8fbI


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    #890
    GMKK96
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    The Web Charter and Blue Train last Friday.



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    #891
    Judgement Day
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    The new RPSI blue and white livery gets better ever time I see it! What did the tour participants do when they got to Midleton?


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    #892
    Judgement Day
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    I always enjoy this 'blast' from the past - I only found it on YouTube again last night as the title had me beat. Enjoy. :D

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


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    #893
    flyingsnail
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    The new RPSI blue and white livery gets better ever time I see it! What did the tour participants do when they got to Midleton?

    They went off to some hotel for the night, no idea why.


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    #894
    newmug
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    I always enjoy this 'blast' from the past - I only found it on YouTube again last night as the title had me beat. Enjoy. :D

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




    Poor train :-(


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    #895
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    I have a photo of the remains lying in Inchicore afterwards. Just the underframe, one cab and the engine block left, not much else.


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    #896
    metrovick001
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    I think 145 met a similar fate but the sheet metal fabricators of Inchicore works rebuilt her from the frame up. Of all the locos that should have been stuffed and plinthed she waa the one!


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    #897
    h.gricer
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    metrovick001 wrote: »
    I think 145 met a similar fate but the sheet metal fabricators of Inchicore works rebuilt her from the frame up. Of all the locos that should have been stuffed and plinthed she waa the one!
    I think it was 146 Metrovick, the numbers on 146 looked strange and big (out of place) on 1 of the cabs, you could easy indentify the cab that was completely rebuilt.
    Regards
    hg


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    #898
    h.gricer
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    I always enjoy this 'blast' from the past - I only found it on YouTube again last night as the title had me beat. Enjoy. :D

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

    Iv seen that clip many times over the years, and yet for a professional cameraman, being too focus on a soldier holding his binoculars, he actually missed filming the moment of the actually explosion, which to my mind was very unprofessional.

    Regards
    hg


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    #899
    MGWR
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    Sorry for resurrecting the thread, but it seems that this is the one for oddball photos as well as vids; the "photo thread" seems to have established itself for current IE pics.

    Imagine a funeral tram?
    arFuneralcar.jpg

    Info update: This belonged to the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company, which ceased operating its last electric tram in 1958. Back then, it was not unusual for utility companies to operate tramways and electric railways.


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    #900
    MGWR
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    Colour photo of Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee electric railway's "Electroliner" running on the Sixth Street tramway in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 3/1/65, during its last year and month of operation (shut down on the 20th). On its own alignment, these interurban super-trams would run at 90 mph. In Chicago, they ran on the Loop elevated railway ("metro" format) and switched from trolley poles to third rail at Howard Street station; the contact shoes are visible on the bogies. Photo by Marty Bernard.
    10959922_10155166443940529_3896275369587363002_o.jpg


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    #901
    Sheldons Brain
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    Train porn posted in the weather forum

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yja2VmZOfdA


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