IE's 071 Class.

dowlingm

073 seems to have a Tara load behind, what was 083 up to? Was there shunting going on?

steamengine

dowlingm wrote: »

073 seems to have a Tara load behind, what was 083 up to? Was there shunting going on?

They were both stationary for the half hour I spent there, located on the branch just short of the bridge over the Dublin Road and adjacent to the car park as one exits the station building. 073 had a rake of wagons with the loco facing the Navan direction. I couldn't tell if 083 was light engine or not from my vantage point.

Rud

steamengine wrote: »

They were both stationary for the half hour I spent there, located on the branch just short of the bridge over the Dublin Road and adjacent to the car park as one exits the station building. 073 had a rake of wagons with the loco facing the Navan direction. I couldn't tell if 083 was light engine or not from my vantage point.

083 was outside the engine shed at Connolly on Paddys Day along side its sister 081 and it's Canadian cousin 206

Oscar Bravo

081 worked a bank holiday North Wall-Ballina IWT liner.

Captain Chaos

I see 083 has a wheel wedge chock in place. Thought having the external hand brake engaged with the loco brake would be enough to hold the loco incase of brake failure.

I see them on the Alstom DARTs all the time, god forbid they roll into the Tolka some night and free up space at fairview.

Itssoeasy

Are the 071s an extinct species in cork now ? I've seen one in the last few months in the shed as I was coming up from Midleton.

Dublin Spotter

They spend most of there time in Dublin, Waterford, Westport, Ballina and Drogheda operating freight trains and other no passenger services.

Rud

Dublin Spotter wrote: »

They spend most of there time in Dublin, Waterford, Westport, Ballina and Drogheda operating freight trains and other no passenger services.

They can also be found at Portlaoise most of the time and also at Portarlington the odd time on PW/balast trains

Oscar Bravo

080 was working the N.wall-Ballina IWT liner today when it failed.084 was sent to replace,however 084 was also in poor running order and made very hard work of hauling the liner here it is in Ballyhaunis around 6pm running hours late

Jamie2k9

079 replaced 234 on the autoblasters in Waterford.

Captain Chaos

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

080 was working the N.wall-Ballina IWT liner today when it failed.084 was sent to replace,however 084 was also in poor running order and made very hard work of hauling the liner here it is in Ballyhaunis around 6pm running hours late

Wow:eek:, 084 is in a right state. Turning it's last wheels by the looks of things.

Oscar Bravo

Sure is,i hope it cools down overnight!! 234 worked the Waterford - Ballina DFDS,so more than likely they will send 234 out on the the IWT liner ex Ballina in the morning and leave 084 there,then again mabey not.

lord lucan

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Wow:eek:, 084 is in a right state. Turning it's last wheels by the looks of things.

Looks like she was drafted in from the scrap line!

demanufactured

Saw it pass athlone midland today, it sounded a lot louder than other 071s.
I opened the bedroom window to get a better listen....lovely thump off it.

Hungerford

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Wow:eek:, 084 is in a right state. Turning it's last wheels by the looks of things.

Sending out a loco in that condition is borderline disgraceful. Then again, they only have themselves to blame for a self-imposed shortage of locos. Why didn't they reactivate one of their stored 201 fleet if they were that stuck?

Oscar Bravo

Side view of 084 as it departed Ballyhaunis for Ballina earlier

dowlingm

Hungerford wrote: »

Sending out a loco in that condition is borderline disgraceful. Then again, they only have themselves to blame for a self-imposed shortage of locos. Why didn't they reactivate one of their stored 201 fleet if they were that stuck?

Permanent Way department scared of what a steady diet of 201s would do to track between Athlone, Ballina and Westport? I presume a few of the nonPP 201s have been raided for parts but surely not all ten.

Cookie_Monster

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Wow:eek:, 084 is in a right state. Turning it's last wheels by the looks of things.

bit of flakey / faded paint and some loose doors. So long as it's sound mechanically (another question entirely) it really is not that importtant what it looks like.

dowlingm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

bit of flakey / faded paint and some loose doors. So long as it's sound mechanically (another question entirely) it really is not that importtant what it looks like.

Can't do much for morale within the Company though to see equipment left go to rack and ruin even cosmetically. I'm sure it doesn't impress punters watching it pass through their station while waiting for their DMU to arrive either.

Oscar Bravo

Today,081 worked the NorthWall-Ballina IWT liner.084 is in Ballina yard attached to the DFDS liner(Easily seen from the road into Ballina).

Oscar Bravo

084 is in Ballina attached to DFDS,howver it will not work it tomorrow.086 went light engine from Inchicore-Ballina today and will work the liner tomorrow.084 will return light engine.

dowlingm

It's a pity Kildare isn't really a great spot to be doing loco swaps so that that 084 could pull in northbound and 086 dash onto the back and bring it to Waterford rather than all this deadheading.

Losty Dublin

They have done that before, MD. Big problem with it is that it fouls up the line for quite a while with waiting trains and locos so it's quicker to let the hauling loco take it all the way.

dowlingm

yeah Losty that's what I meant - it's a bad location to be performing those sorts of manoeuvres. It may be that in this case they thought 084 just couldn't do the job but at first glance it seems like a waste.

Re 084, you'd be surprised. In recent years 152 was one of, if not the, worst looking of the 141s yet the engine underneath was perfectly healthy. I was standing beside 152 and 171 on the IRRS special a few years back (where 171 failed) and 152 sounded a lot nicer than 171 did.

Captain Chaos

Karsini wrote: »

Re 084, you'd be surprised. In recent years 152 was one of, if not the, worst looking of the 141s yet the engine underneath was perfectly healthy. I was standing beside 152 and 171 on the IRRS special a few years back (where 171 failed) and 152 sounded a lot nicer than 171 did.

Correct me if I'm wrong here. Wasn't the reason 152 ended up in that state was because it was on long term loan to NIR as a temporary swap for 112?

I know one of the 141s were on loan and I forget which but I think it was 152.

Captain Chaos

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Correct me if I'm wrong here. Wasn't the reason 152 ended up in that state was because it was on long term loan to NIR as a temporary swap for 112?

I know one of the 141s were on loan and I forget which but I think it was 152.

I have a photo (not mine) of York Road taken on August 16th, 2006 and 162 is there, in front of a silver 201.

Oscar Bravo

RE 084,this loco was in Inchicore works beginning body works(parked behind 087) when 080 failed.THEY had no other loco available to haul the liner,to say the least 084 let the side down more than once that day.It was not able to haul the liner Friday morning,hence 086 being sent to Ballina to haul the liner.084 is now back at Inchicore.

Rud

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

RE 084,this loco was in Inchicore works beginning body works(parked behind 087) when 080 failed.THEY had no other loco available to haul the liner,to say the least 084 let the side down more than once that day.It was not able to haul the liner Friday morning,hence 086 being sent to Ballina to haul the liner.084 is now back at Inchicore.

I got a glimpse of 086 from work today as it left Athy and it sounded bloody awful and looked like it was getting hassle pulling the containers out of the station and it wasn't even fully loaded!

Hungerford

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

RE 084,this loco was in Inchicore works beginning body works(parked behind 087) when 080 failed.THEY had no other loco available to haul the liner,to say the least 084 let the side down more than once that day.It was not able to haul the liner Friday morning,hence 086 being sent to Ballina to haul the liner.084 is now back at Inchicore.

Any word on when 087's body works will be completed and the loco back in action? It would help relieve the doubters who believe that body works are, in reality, the new sound barrier at Inchicore.