Boithre Iarainn tonight TG4

steamengine

roundymac wrote: »

I lived in Turners x, Mercier Park to be precise, the line went pass the end of the back garden, I was never aware of any spur to capwell. The only line that i know that came from Capwell was the Macroom railway. I have a book on it some where, I'll try and dig it out.

Referring to my recollection of the rails being in place, my best recall is that it was mid 1966. The location where we walked the line, just to the South of Turner's Cross would have originally been the Ballyphehane embankment as far as I can make it out from info on the net and Google maps.

roundymac

That sounds like the Macroom railway which seperated before what is now the Kinsale roundabout., and ran alongside the Tramore river.

steamengine

roundymac wrote: »

That sounds like the Macroom railway which seperated before what is now the Kinsale roundabout., and ran alongside the Tramore river.

I estimate it to be here (green arrow). Does that make any sense ? In any event I certainly would like to know which line we were on. Definitely an embankment, and it's hazy now but I think it was also double track. Anyway we were more interested in the two 'birds' we bumped into also walking the track. Rail enthusiasm went on the back burner that day.

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=51.878981,-8.466339&hl=en&num=1&t=m&z=14

dowlingm

If I read the OSI 25" map right on OSI mapviewer at 1:5000 zoom and the overlay function, it looks like the Macroom railway was separate from the Bandon and South Coast to a terminus at what is now Capwell Depot.

corktina

yes sorry I assumed everyone knew that. This was the case from a few months after the Macroom line opened (it originally shared the bandon line station) until amalgamation with the exception of a period around WW1 when the Government forced a connection on them, which was promptly ripped up after the period of control ended. The Macroom trains reverted to Albert St after amagamation but the Capwell branch was retained to take diesel fuel tankers in to what had becoem the bus depot.

BowWow

Bóithre Iarainn
The Western Rail Corridor: The re-opening of the line from Limerick to Galway in 2010 was seen as a triumph by campaigners for the Western Rail Corridor, but this same line once stretched North West all the way to Collooney in Sligo and was the setting for much drama both in real-life as in art- including the filming of the Quiet Man train scene near Tuam.

dowlingm

The series isn't that new - turns out there were episodes in 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yROJyRTcjoc

Interesting that this episode like the West Cork one mentions a botched IRA ambush.

101sean

I have the previous series on sky+, only watched the WCR episode so far but I think the rest covers narrow gauge.

dowlingm

I get the feeling the people behind this project are dying to sell it to PBS or something. The nostalgia factor is cloying, including the obligatory mention of the Quiet Man and the name drop of Yeats.

L1011

dowlingm wrote: »

I get the feeling the people behind this project are dying to sell it to PBS or something. The nostalgia factor is cloying, including the obligatory mention of the Quiet Man and the name drop of Yeats.

A lot of RTE/TG4 shows recently have clear marks of being made for export. Irish episodes of the Secret Millionaire giving repeated details of the geographical location of Dundalk, Clondalkin, etc.

dmcronin

dowlingm wrote: »

I get the feeling the people behind this project are dying to sell it to PBS or something. The nostalgia factor is cloying, including the obligatory mention of the Quiet Man and the name drop of Yeats.

The large percentage of subtitling may be an impediment to that, esp. if intended for a US audience, unless they dub it.

L1011

dmcronin wrote: »

The large percentage of subtitling may be an impediment to that, esp. if intended for a US audience, unless they dub it.

PBS are not overly scared of subtitles. Every other network is though.

Judgement Day

The latest episode featuring my beloved Cavan & Leitrim is up on the TG4 Player now and what a motley crew of Republicans they rounded up for it! The revisionism would put Eoghan Harris to shame - I'm surprised Patrick Flanagan allowed himself to appear on it. Incidentally, I got a mention (not by name though) - towards the very end - from the 'proprietor' at Dromod.

Losty Dublin

Judgement Day wrote: »

Incidentally, I got a mention (not by name though) - towards the very end - from the 'proprietor' at Dromod.

What did he do; did he name one of the submarines after you?

corktina

or half a milk float?

Seanchai

roundymac wrote: »

Unfortunetly [sic] it's it [sic] Irish.

:rolleyes:. Chip. Shoulder.

minstral

Hi,
I know this thread is very old but im chancing my arm to see if it is possible to watch the episode of the cavan leitrim railway anywhere? My grandparents were stationmasters in Fenagh on this line and Im looking for any info or pictures i can find of it.
Thanks!

robclay26

minstral wrote: »

Hi,
I know this thread is very old but im chancing my arm to see if it is possible to watch the episode of the cavan leitrim railway anywhere? My grandparents were stationmasters in Fenagh on this line and Im looking for any info or pictures i can find of it.
Thanks!

Check eiretrains. Great website.

Eiretrains

Sorry I don't have anything on Fenagh. It was one of the smaller halts between Ballinamore/Dromod, it didn't get a lot attention from photographers back in the day, even though the Cavan & Leitrim has been well documented.

gobnaitolunacy

minstral wrote: »

Hi,
I know this thread is very old but im chancing my arm to see if it is possible to watch the episode of the cavan leitrim railway anywhere? My grandparents were stationmasters in Fenagh on this line and Im looking for any info or pictures i can find of it.
Thanks!

I *think* there might be one of Fenagh in the Irish Narrow Gauge book (vol 1 Cork to Cavan.) the one with the green hardback cover.