Irish Railways Video Thread

tabbey wrote: »

Hi Vis jackets had not been dreamt of in 1958.

People used their common sense and natural instinct of self preservation.

And accidental deaths were vastly more frequent than now. Common sense is quite uncommon.

Train Crash at Khyber Pass

http://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/1116/659451-dalkey-train-crash-1979/


Here's the investigation report:
http://www.raiu.ie/download/pdf/accident_dalkey.pdf

this looks like a nasty derailment and that track clearly wasn't in good condition as coaches derailing seem to have destroyed the rails and the sleepers look wooden.

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Does anyone know of any videos on YouTube of Brendan Ogle from his ILDA days?

The only one I've ever seen online is the infamous "gravy" speech.

http://www.thejournal.ie/watch-union-chief-admits-esb-staff-are-spoilt-211399-Aug2011/

Itssoeasy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-IqoJvEvs

this looks like a nasty derailment and that track clearly wasn't in good condition as coaches derailing seem to have destroyed the rails and the sleepers look wooden.

nothing wrong with wooden sleepers, what was wrong at that stage was the appalling maintenance or lack of it on track at that time

That video has a personal touch to me. the person who is retiring was a great friend of my grandfather and was his next door neighbour and I know the guy who brought 162 to the headshunt. And the guy retiring was the driver my grandfather asked to let me have a spin in a 121.


I showed the video to my mother and she recognised the man immediately. The window where the flag is out the window is next to the my great grandmothers house where I used to climb the ladder and look over the wall.

I was expecting "lemur" to be some form of injoke I wasn't getting. Jaysus.

This video according to the date stamp in coming up on thirty years ago. Has there much change to Connolly track wise in those thirty years ? I know there was a new platform build in 1981(?) in the train shed. And something else was removed at that time. Was it a signal box or a footbridge ?

Seanmk1 wrote: »

There was a footbridge that ran across all the platforms at the end of the train shed. You can see it here. There was a signal-box removed too, but I'm not sure when that happened.



From memory, it was wooden and fairly rattled. It used to scare the hell out of me when I was small. Then again the so did the underpass from platform 7 as the lighting was often knackered.:(

The footbridge was in two sections, the part from platform 5 to 6&7, was the only way to get to the latter, and was heavily used, especially during peak hours. At quieter times most southeastern trains used platform 5.
The section of footbridge from Platform 5 across the trainshed to platform 2&1, was usuallylocked to prevent passengers alighting from Belfast trains evading the customs officers. The customs were only needed for non-stop trains from Belfast, other trains were checked at Dundalk, but the gate at the footbridge steps from platform 2, was usually left locked.
My memory is that it only opened for a few years before it was removed.

The signal cabins which were removed were the 1926 built GSR electric signal cabin on platform 6&7, and the GNR Central Cabin between the tracks, halfway from the platforms to the Royal Canal bridge. Both of these became redundant with resignalling in preparation for electrification in the early 1980s. The CTC cabin was extended to control the suburban DART route.

Some rare footage of Ballinrobe station, featuring a 600 Class 0-6-0 and a C Class that was barely out of it's wrapper.