Train porn

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.

highlydebased

Dont know if this has been posted here before but it's well worth the watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKSH6oHVws

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjFJmb8Xvu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcOvZ_rSlI

newmug

Tl;dw. Whats the gist of it?

highlydebased

newmug wrote: »

Tl;dw. Whats the gist of it?

I thought it was quite interesting in that it sums up many of the arguments on here quite well- even though it is about British Rail many moons ago, A tale of rail competing with buses and cars, and how decades of underinvestment and misinvestment have led to a railway system held together with packing tape-quick fixes not always being the right fix etc. It is quite similar to the situation Irish Rail finds itself in today!

end of the road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfTp3_N_08c&feature=related

end of the road

some stuff from our friends accross the pond, yeah their no 071s 201s and so on but some lovely growling never the less (if i do say so myself) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAlQtPTSaI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9iswqXAWE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yH3asTC-Ts&feature=related

Rud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlT_S1pC2E

demanufactured

Rud wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlT_S1pC2E

Where is that?

Our man in Havana

Straffan, Co. Kildare by the 13-1/4MP.

CIE

Uh-oh. How can this thread be threatening to drop off the first page?

Here's a clip of the 2011 "Trolley (tram) Pageant" (well, mostly trams) at the Illinois Railway Museum. Included in the run-bys are city trams, interurban trams (which often travelled close to a hundred miles one-way), subway (underground) and elevated-railway cars (or "metro" if you like; the video calls them "transit"), examples of freight trams, and some of the big 85-foot-long electric commuter cars of the Illinois Central (today's "Metra Electric"). Trolley-pole-equipped cars and pantograph-equipped cars are running off the same wire.

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

One of my work colleagues was in Guelph, Ontario last month and sent this to me today. GP38?

demanufactured

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrz0IGrDk3U

demanufactured

South Clare railtour passing through Athlone earlier this year.
You can see where they have disconnected the sidings at athlone midland as the train passes through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwnxP7Yo-4w

Eiretrains

For those interested in the A Class and have memories of the gypsum trains.:)

Judgement Day

Some quality footage there! Despite being just down the road from Navan & Kingscourt - Bray - I only travelled to Kingscourt and back once and Navan twice. Never even got as far as the Tara Mines complex. H&S wouldn't approve of some of the guard's antics - especially stepping across behind the reversing train at Platin.

Our man in Havana

I take it the Kingcourt line was completely unsignalled?

demanufactured

demanufactured wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrz0IGrDk3U

152 looking extremely clean in that video. Certainly doesn't look like that now.

Eiretrains

Our man in Havana wrote: »

I take it the Kingcourt line was completely unsignalled?

Yes there was no operational signalling on the line, bar the junction near Tara Mines. The only signals as such were fixed distant semaphores indicating the approach to level crossings, and a few colour light signals at Kells Road automatic crossing outside Navan town.

LEIN

Losty Dublin

Eiretrains wrote: »

Yes there was no operational signalling on the line, bar the junction near Tara Mines. The only signals as such were fixed distant semaphores indicating the approach to level crossings, and a few colour light signals at Kells Road automatic crossing outside Navan town.

Access to the branch was made via a subsidiary ETS staff on the block section between Navan and Tara Mines. The staff had an Annetts key on it that allowed the train crew to set points to allow their train onto the branch Once the points were reset to the mainline, the block section to and from the mines was freed up for ore traffic and the Gypsum train could work away to it's hearts content, safely locked into the branch. Upon return to Navan, the reverse procedure applied.

Rud

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

Captain Chaos

British HST "race" in 1990

Itssoeasy

Karsini wrote: »

152 looking extremely clean in that video. Certainly doesn't look like that now.

The building we see 152 entering at the start what is/was it ? And seeing as 146 was shown to be repaired and repainted is there a special paint facility in inchicore ? I ask that as downpatrick seem to have done a great job with I pressumed with less money and equipment.

Itssoeasy

Itssoeasy wrote: »

The building we see 152 entering at the start what is/was it ? And seeing as 146 was shown to be repaired and repainted is there a special paint facility in inchicore ? I ask that as downpatrick seem to have done a great job with I pressumed with less money and equipment.

I've been in Inchicore several times and didn't see anything like it, so I'm not sure. There is a dedicated paint and spray facility there.

KCAccidental

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39aHO71m9g

I don't think I've ever since anyone so excited about anything. EVER.

Our man in Havana

You have never been on a IRRS special before.

CIE

KCAccidental wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39aHO71m9g

I don't think I've ever seen anyone so excited about anything. EVER.

I think I might have...the above video is a deliberate parody of the "heritage unit" one.

end of the road

the magical sound of english electric thumpers, magical thumping music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHTrrUZFlg

lord lucan

Judgement Day

I missed out on the Tara/Arklow ore trains - it must have been when I was stashing all the cash from Dromod in the Cayman Islands - but where did they operate to? Shelton Abbey would seem obvious but ....

Eiretrains

Judgement Day wrote: »

I missed out on the Tara/Arklow ore trains - it must have been when I was stashing all the cash from Dromod in the Cayman Islands - but where did they operate to? Shelton Abbey would seem obvious but ....

They operated simply to the goods yard in Arklow station, the containers been transferred to road for the final (costly and tedious) journey to Arklow port. You probably weren't the only one to miss these trains, as it was one of these experimental movements that lasted just six weeks, from mid June to the end of July 1992.