Fantasy rail journeys

demanufactured

Ok so I thought we'd start a dedicated thread for this...

Ill start the scenario and let someone else decide where we are going.
As im in athlone ill start by saying the Train is a pair of 121s with a ballast train consist....4 wheeled hoppers and a single brake van...

We are in platform 3 of athlone midland facing towards moate....
signal is red at the minute....waiting for an 071 with mk3s on its way from Heuston with the 0530 dublin - galway

Where are we going?

corktina

more like WHEN are you going, 071 has failed on approach, blocking the junction. What's more, the CityGold restaurant has run out of McEwans Lager

Fred Swanson

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Cookie_Monster

demanufactured wrote: »

Where are we going?

Through the CST wormhole to Arevalo

Con Logue

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Through the CST wormhole to Arevalo

and using the Hampton Court rules, a reverse move to Mornington Crescent

corktina

Con Logue wrote: »

and using the Hampton Court rules, a reverse move to Mornington Crescent

you won that one...your turn to start

oh no wait....071s are out of gauge for London Underground...Go Back to Athlone, miss a turn.

Con Logue

corktina wrote: »

you won that one...your turn to start

oh no wait....071s are out of gauge for London Underground...Go Back to Athlone, miss a turn.

OK. 088 has arrived..

end of the road

088 has now moved the galway train and the junction is clear

corktina

anyone got a green flag to wave at demanufactured, who seems to be asleep in the cab of 124

demanufactured

corktina wrote: »

anyone got a green flag to wave at demanufactured, who seems to be asleep in the cab of 124

I'm awake I'm awake..!!!

corktina

do you have the token?, the Bobby can't find it

demanufactured

No???
What the ...who has it out???

Losty Dublin

demanufactured wrote: »

No???
What the ...who has it out???

I have it up; you can bid for it on my ebay page

corktina

at least you got to it before IRRS

cml387

Waiting anxiously in Streamstown for you. Bit of work to clear the fence at Moate and I'm off to Castletown Geoghegan now.

demanufactured

Got the token...it was in the men's loo....who had it
Anyway i am halted at moate waiting a clear signal...will be dropping off the ballast wagons in Mullingar yard before continuing to connolly where I will be leaving the 121s...
Anyone heading from connolly later I would be happy to travel in your cab.

Fred Swanson

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demanufactured

Great....you take over from here.

corktina

i'm due in Connoly later on to take over no 800, on her way down from Cultra to the new preserved line at Banteer, any Fireman available?

Losty Dublin

corktina wrote: »

i'm due in Connoly later on to take over no 800, on her way down from Cultra to the new preserved line at Banteer, any Fireman available?

Keep an eye out for me on the way up. I'm transferring a tram from the Hill of Howth to Fintona later today.

end of the road

got 074 here in connolly with a few mark 2s heading for rosslare, anyone need a lift?

corktina

is anyone availble to go to Moyasta to fetch a couple of small yanks ready for the beet specials?

end of the road

corktina wrote: »

is anyone availble to go to Moyasta to fetch a couple of small yanks ready for the beet specials?

yeah, i'm on a special run from rosslare to ennis tomorrow driving one of the AEC railcars so i'l pick them up, my first time doing a run to ennis from anywhere and my first time driving the railcars anyone know what their like? how am i going to get the yanks out of Moyasta though? will they lay a temporary track? if they do i take it their will be an inspection cab around who might be sound and give me a lift to Moyasta?

demanufactured

corktina wrote: »

is anyone availble to go to Moyasta to fetch a couple of small yanks ready for the beet specials?

The pair i was driving are parked up in Connolly shed.

corktina

we'm gonna need more than one pair by all accounts. Loading points in Youghal and Dunwanway to service to mention Wellington Bridge

Losty Dublin

corktina wrote: »

we'm gonna need more than one pair by all accounts. Loading points in Youghal and Dunwanway to service to mention Wellington Bridge

If you are stuck, the Tralee Deltic can be sent as a relief engine. It can haul enough beet to sweeten all the tea in China. Make sure that it's back in time for Monday; it's got to haul a consignment of Hillman Hunters being delivered to Fenit; the best of British.

corktina

why Fenit?wouldn't it have made sense to bring them over the bridge to Belfast from Stranraer?

Losty Dublin

corktina wrote: »

why Fenit?wouldn't it have made sense to bring them over the bridge to Belfast from Stranraer?

Ulster Transport Authority.

Does that answer your question?

corktina

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Ulster Transport Authority.

Does that answer your question?

!right, not everything about the Past is better!

end of the road

Losty Dublin wrote: »

the Tralee Deltic

the tralee deltic?

gobnaitolunacy

This is one batsh*t crazy thread.
Keep taking the tablets.

StupidLikeAFox

I am the leader of a fleet of terrorists who are attacking Ireland . We fly by in our F16 fighter jets and completely destroy all rail infrastructure including the stations.

Pew pew pew!

end of the road

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

I am the leader of a fleet of terrorists who are attacking Ireland . We fly by in our F16 fighter jets and completely destroy all rail infrastructure including the stations.

Pew pew pew!

well, nice try but foggy lad has just shot you all down, bye bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Losty Dublin

end of the road wrote: »

the tralee deltic?

Yeah. She was a bo bo Deltic built in 1956 called Paidi and was the sole locomotive supplied to Ireland's last private railway company, namely the Dingle, Tralee, Dunmanway, Rosscarbery and Clonakilty light railway. It was formed by a consortium of pig farmers who broke away from the IRRS to move consignments of offal between the towns to avoid EU health inspector visits. It's crest of arms were the aforementioned towns coats of arms inside a ring of black pudding, a nod at the MGWR logo o.

Unforturnately the firm went bust just after the engine was delivered, leaving the IFA to bail out the debts left behind. Underred, the receiver hired out to CIE and put to use shunting grain traffic for Tralee flour millers, Trooth's, before seeing time as a stationary engine on the Bantry Bay Oil plant. It was sold to Brazil but it was sank in the Betelgeuse disaster at Whitty Island in 1979 where it was being stored.

Paidi always worked at night and sadly no photos exist of it, not even in the archive of IRRS who had fallen out bitterly with the ex owners thus mssing out on a lucrative railtour to visit her. Incidentally, there is a Eu 200 rewards for any snaps of Paidi so keep an eye out for some

corktina

wow!

gobnaitolunacy

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

This is one batsh*t crazy thread.
Keep taking the tablets.

Edit: looks like acid or LSD are the drugs of choice on this thread:D

Losty Dublin

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Edit: looks like acid or LSD are the drugs of choice on this thread:D

Diesel fumes in my case

corktina

Newsflash...800 Maedbh has arrived at the new project in Banteer to revive the Newmarket Branch and is now stabled next to the signal box, having been shunted in from the main line by G601. Negotiations with Cork Co Council and the NRA are ongoing regarding a new level crossing on the N72 and when this is complete , and the new Blackwater Bridge, tracklaying will commence.

Losty Dublin

corktina wrote: »

Newsflash...800 Maedbh has arrived at the new project in Banteer to revive the Newmarket Branch and is now stabled next to the signal box, having been shunted in from the main line by G601. Negotiations with Cork Co Council and the NRA are ongoing regarding a new level crossing on the N72 and when this is complete , and the new Blackwater Bridge, tracklaying will commence.

What about Tailte? Why isn't she being sent down? :mad:

corktina

she is going to Sligo for use on the new line to
Manorhamilton proposed

Losty Dublin

corktina wrote: »

she is going to Sligo for use on the new line to
Manorhamilton proposed

That line is a disgrace. Sapping money out of genuinely needed systems when the Ballinrobe-Claremorris branch needs funds to go underground. I'm telling ya, it's not what you know but who you know.

I suppose they are getting the Pulmans and the paddle steamer as well :mad:

Sponge Bob

corktina wrote: »

she is going to Sligo for use on the new line to
Manorhamilton proposed

Too Late. The long running proposal to 're'open the Derry - Sligo line decided to go (again) with narrow guage up the Barnesmore and the run towards Manorhamilton and Derry is being assigned to a narrow guage bendybus instead ( with 2 sheep wagons in tow as far as Kinlough)

end of the road

i've got both the gatwic set, the blue train, along with a rake of cravens and a rake of mark 2 ds, with 071 and 072 in a double header at the front, and 073 and 074 in a double header pushing from the back, on a special service from bellfast and back visiting almost all the rail network, leaving at 11 am sharp tomorrow serving all stations, this is a once off, so i suggest if you want to hear this magical roar you get yourself to the nearest station or if you want a lift in the cab thats no problem to, theirs still some tickets available if traveling in the cab of a loco is not your thing, a once off opportunity to travel almost all of irelands rail network not to be missed, refreshments will be provided.

demanufactured

end of the road wrote: »

i've got both the gatwic set, the blue train, along with a rake of cravens and a rake of mark 2 ds, with 071 and 072 in a double header at the front, and 073 and 074 in a double header pushing from the back, on a special service from bellfast and back visiting almost all the rail network, leaving at 11 am sharp tomorrow serving all stations, this is a once off, so i suggest if you want to hear this magical roar you get yourself to the nearest station or if you want a lift in the cab thats no problem to, theirs still some tickets available if traveling in the cab of a loco is not your thing, a once off opportunity to travel almost all of irelands rail network not to be missed, refreshments will be provided.

Would actually be some site to see.

Where will the magical train be visiting? ?

end of the road

demanufactured wrote: »

Would actually be some site to see.

Where will the magical train be visiting? ?

head off from bellfast, to navon via droghida and back by clonsilla, to sligo, down the berma road to claremorris, to galway and limerick via the WRC, limerick, to tralee via the limerick tralee line, to mallow and cork and down the west cork railway, we'l pay a visit to cobh and Youghal, then back to limerick via the old direct cork limerick line, up to ballybroaphy via nenagh and back via thurles, down to mallow and head to waterford via the mallow waterford line, round by killkenny and killdare to portarlington and to westport, back via the WRC to galway and to portarlington via the dublin galway line, round via the kilkenny portlaoise direct line to waterford, to rosslare via new-ross and back to dublin, traveling the athlone mullingar line we'l head to limerick again and travel the rosslare limerick line and straight back to bellfast non-stop via rosslare dublin, if theirs any lines you'd like to visit or a better route to do all this let us know