IE's 071 Class.

CaptainFreedom

084 is now in Inchicore for refurbishment - bringing down the curtain on orange diesel locomotives on the IE system....

metrovick001

Sad to see the end of orange on CIE / IE (maybe we'll see a 201 in orange some day?)

I finially caught up with 071 working a Waterford-Westport empty timber train near Athlone -

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

n0brain3r

086 is at the engine shed in Connolly

pointsman

n0brain3r wrote: »

086 is at the engine shed in Connolly

Taxi to Dundalk tonight

Richard Logue

NIR 112 at York Road depot with a rake of NIR Mk 2c or d coaching stock.

Still in pre Translink livery. Are these locos in use?

Richard Logue

Richard Logue wrote: »

NIR 112 at York Road depot with a rake of NIR Mk 2c or d coaching stock.

Still in pre Translink livery. Are these locos in use?

Yes but just for NIR/RPSI stock transfers or PW trains. You'll sometimes see one head south of the border to return a failed 201 to Connolly.

Oscar Bravo

071 resting in Westport this weekend

I quite like that livery. The only thing I don't like is the UIC numbers on the front.

davidlacey

metrovick001 wrote: »

Sad to see the end of orange on CIE / IE (maybe we'll see a 201 in orange some day?)

I finially caught up with 071 working a Waterford-Westport empty timber train near Athlone -

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

What are the chances of seeing any of the orange 201s in service? slim? unless a few of the current batch fail?

Richard Logue

I saw 086 at Connolly on Sunday morning, tantalisingly one cab door was still painted Orange and Black, it must have been a spare recently added.;

n0brain3r

davidlacey wrote: »

What are the chances of seeing any of the orange 201s in service? slim? unless a few of the current batch fail?

Are they capable of freight workings? I think they're laid up as they're not fitted for push/pull working but think this wouldn't apply to freight?

Richard Logue wrote: »

I saw 086 at Connolly on Sunday morning, tantalisingly one cab door was still painted Orange and Black, it must have been a spare recently added.;

I think they where salvaged from a 141 class. I think there's another 071 that received the same. It's on this thread somewhere.

Do any of the 141's live on as shunters in Inchicore?

Captain Chaos

Richard Logue wrote: »

I saw 086 at Connolly on Sunday morning, tantalisingly one cab door was still painted Orange and Black, it must have been a spare recently added.;

086 has two orange doors and it's had them for a few years at this stage. They are not recent at all.

Captain Chaos

n0brain3r wrote: »

Are they capable of freight workings? I think they're laid up as they're not fitted for push/pull working but think this wouldn't apply to freight?

Do any of the 141's live on as shunters in Inchicore?

The orange 201 can do freight but they are not in any state to return to service as they have been stripped of parts and have not run in a long time. Some of them were withdrawn when they failed and were just hauled to Inchicore and not repaired. 210 had a big engine failure, ejecting a piston through it's engine block, it was never fixed and part of it's brake system has been removed since.

There are 3-4 141s in Inchicore stopped, out of service. Two were active as shunters for a brief time. 085 is the Inchicore pilot shunter now.

I think it's safe to say that most, if not all, of the "stored" 201s will never run again.

dowlingm

Better to keep the 071s going as long as possible (which can go anywhere) than add 201s which are weight restricted.

If 201s were ever needed for freight service then given the comments on the state of the "stored" units it might be a better call to acquire dedicated powercars for the Mark 4s and convert the in-service 201s to low speed geared/no-HEP config, similar to how some F40PHRs got reconfigured for freight by Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway after being made redundant at AMT Montreal. But the media will scream about "waste" once some vested interest gets chatty.

Captain Chaos

dowlingm wrote: »

Better to keep the 071s going as long as possible (which can go anywhere) than add 201s which are weight restricted.
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The 201s are not so much weight restricted anymore, they can now go more or less anywhere they need to or anywhere an 071 can. They have more speed restrictions south of Arklow but they will never be needed there except for engineering trains if they had to haul one.

And they could unload the tara wagons by running round the train in North Wall yard and then reversing it down the Alexandra Road tramway and into the terminal. It would require more staff on the ground though for safety. They would not need the traverser that way for which they are too long.

Oscar Bravo

083 is in Claremorris with the weedspray this evening

metrovick001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9md-Kx2OPmo

077 on Northwall-Portlaoise ballast train at Stacumny Bridge 06-June-2008

Captain Chaos

One of my favourites, 077 on one of it's last workings at the end of October 2010 before being stopped for it's overhaul and as a bonus 082 at the end. The sound alone gives it away as 082 even though you can't see the number.

Oscar Bravo

071 in westport with timber.

n0brain3r

074 just hauled a rake of autoballasters through Sallins towards Newbridge

n0brain3r

080 is in the loop at Sallins with an IWT for Ballina
074 hauled a rake of autoballasters through Sallins towards Newbridge about 12:30
An unknown 071 class ran light through Sallins earlier today too

Jamie2k9

074 and 083 in Portlaoise yard.

Rud

072 just went through Athy with the empty timber train,sounding and looking great

metrovick001

The same train past Kiltoom on the Mayo road at approx 1700.
It was also looped in Clonydonnin at 1555 to allow the following 1445 Heuston-Westport overtake it.

Captain Chaos

Just an observation from Wednesday gone by TTC0169 who posts here but this info was posted on the IRN forums.

There were 10 members of the 18 strong 071 fleet in Inchicore between 15:00 and 16:30.

Numbers 078-085 and 087,088 all in for various maintenance/overhaul reasons and rests between duties.

The 201s must have been busy that day.

n0brain3r

080 just left the loop at Sallins with a single timber wagon towards Newbridge
Pretty sure she hauled some rail wagons to Dublin earlier just didn't catch the number.

flyingsnail

n0brain3r wrote: »

080 just left the loop at Sallins with a single timber wagon towards Newbridge
Pretty sure she hauled some rail wagons to Dublin earlier just didn't catch the number.

There is a scheduled wagon transfer between Limerick wagon works and Inchicore each way, every Thursday.

n0brain3r

074 just ran light through Sallins for Newbridge

GMKK96

Does anyone know if there is a particular schedule for the trains conveying rail from Belview port?