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  • #2
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Just hope the locos are up to the task. I take it they will used both 85 and 461. Otherwise they will need a GM at some parts for reversals.


  • #3
    corktina
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    both this and the May tour will be local to me, so happy days!


  • #4
    metrovick001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭metrovick001


    Great news.


  • #5
    flyingsnail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭flyingsnail


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    Just hope the locos are up to the task. I take it they will used both 85 and 461. Otherwise they will need a GM at some parts for reversals.

    As always locomotives are subject to availability but it would be hoped to use 461, 85 and possibly no 4


  • #6
    Salmon Leap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Salmon Leap


    flyingsnail wrote: »
    As always locomotives are subject to availability but it would be hoped to use 461, 85 and possibly no 4

    I thought 4 was in a long term overhaul?


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  • #7
    BeardySi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭BeardySi


    Due back in service shortly apparently.


  • #8
    flyingsnail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭flyingsnail


    Salmon Leap wrote: »
    I thought 4 was in a long term overhaul?
    Treadhead wrote: »
    Due back in service shortly apparently.

    The overhaul is progressing well and it is hoped that 4 will be back 2015


  • #9
    Salmon Leap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Salmon Leap


    Great news considering what has just been posted about 171.


  • #10
    yachtsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭yachtsman


    Steam Dreams a great success. In future it would be ideal if just the Driver and Fireman were on the footplate. Why the need for inspectors and observers. Let's keep it authentic and leave the job to the professionals.


  • #11
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,817 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    yachtsman wrote: »
    Steam Dreams a great success. In future it would be ideal if just the Driver and Fireman were on the footplate. Why the need for inspectors and observers. Let's keep it authentic and leave the job to the professionals.

    The additional personnel are needed and they all have functions, they're not there for the craic.:rolleyes:


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  • #12
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    One thing I did notice which may well highlight a problem. At Charleville there was a long queue for the Ladies, are the on-board loos not good enough perhaps?


  • #13
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    I hope they're still not flushing onto the rails!


  • #14
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    not from Charleville Station ladies they aren't


  • #15
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    It just always struck me as a bit unfair on people who have to actually work on the lines to do maintenance. The fact the full fleet has now got retention toilets must have made their working lives a lot more pleasant.

    On busier railways like parts of England it must've been petty disgusting.


  • #16
    metrovick001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭metrovick001


    I feel (felt) sorry for the lads in the valeting shed at Heuston!


  • #17
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    I felt sorry for the passengers having to stand on a platform without a train at it!

    Thankfully things have moved on!


  • #18
    101sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    On busier railways like parts of England it must've been petty disgusting

    Still is, HSTs dump on the track even now. When a HST goes past and you're standing in the cess, you turn your back and hope you don't feel a mist across your face! :eek

    Hopefully they'll fit the Belmonds with retention tanks!


  • #19
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    So that's why it *really* says stand well back!

    Ewww


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