Fratello wrote: » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXBuHpKfTNw Nice A class flyby as well. Enjoy.
Evening all,
Recently while going through an external hard-drive I found some video clips I recorded of trains between 2007 and 2012. Most of them I put on YouTube at the time as individual clips but I thought it might be interesting to combine them now into longer videos, grouped by years. The timeframe will be broen into four parts, and have uploaded Part 1 tonight which covers just 2007.
Things to note - as they were recorded fifteen years ago the picture quality is not high-definition 4k, but rather 480p. Also some of the clips are short as my primary focus back then was to photograph the train rather than take a video of it.
That being said, I hope they are of interest as they include some long lost scenes. 2007 was when we still had orange 071s and 201s on Mark 2d, Mark 3, Mark 3a and Mark 3 push/pull sets. The Enterprise was still in original livery, apart from full yellow ends on the carriage driving cabs. And as featured a number of times in this video, the late summer brought loco-hauled GAA specials to Dublin Connolly.
Parts 2 to 4 will be uploaded over the course of the next week or so.
Hope you enjoy!
Part 2 is now online, and covers 2008 and 2009. Included in this compilation is 146 releasing a Mark 3 set in Limerick, 082 in final Sligo timber and a few other locos and DMUs.
Enjoy!
Part 3 in the series covers 2010 and 2011. Included is 112 on the Tara, a Luas towing another Luas and a steam train.
This festive season ends with the fourth and final part of this series which covers 2012. Most of these clips haven't been posted on YouTube before, and include an evening on Gormanston and a trip on the DCDR in Downpatrick.
Hi,
It seems the four-part series I shared at Christmas is in fact a 6 part series. Recently I found more clips on some SD chips that I haven't shared before. They cover more of 2012 and 2014.
So 2012 Part 2 is now online, feature 2700 DMUs, 8113 on a ballast, more Enterprise and Tara Mines trains on Northern line and some steam action. Will post 2014 on Monday.
Final video from series is from 2014, and features scenes at Gormanston and Balbriggan, including a 29000 hauling a DART:
Something a little different. (Also posted on the virtual trains thread which is in Aviation for some reason.
Dungarvan-Mallow line captured on 8mm-cine film by Tony Price, just before closure:
It's great that these old films are now preserved. Remarkably, Fermoy station looks now more or less the same as it was then. It's a funeral parlour now though, so there's only one way tickets sold (sorry).
Scenes of the Harcourt St line, captured just before closure December 1958, on 8mm-film by PJ Currivan (IRRS Archive)
Intriguing to see, especially alongside today’s Luas Green Line! Especially interested to see that Foxrock was such a large station… Does anyone know a reason for this? And also where the unit at the very end of the video was going? It seemed to be peeling off to the right on some sort of branch but I don’t think there was any branch off the line of any sort… A storage siding perhaps?
There were sidings at foxrock for loading/unloading of horses etc. for race weekends. There was also extra platforms used at race weekends to deal with the crowds
last days of Dundalk barrack street yard.
After a year-long changeover in Portlaoise.
Another of those excellent IRRS film restorations: Thurles to Clonmel.
Seldom recorded line (Navan Junction - Kells) post-closure, by the late Tony Price, ex IRRS Archive.
Western Rail Corridor services pre-closure in 1976, recorded on 8mm-cine by Tony Price.
124 lives!
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Can't post the video, sorry!
Another 'early' film captured by the late Tony Price, digitised from the IRRS Archive, featuring a lifting-train on the disused North Wexford Railway:
2751 being hauled to Inchicore from Cork behind 088 yesterday. It's being preserved at Maam Cross.
Sounds like it was running, haven't heard that horn for a long time.
interesting, presumably the other bubble will be stripped and broken up?
have any of the 2 car units been broken up yet?
This is the last one left. All of the others were scrapped over the last few months, including 2753.
I won't share the photo because it's not mine, but a commemorative plaque was attached to the back of 2751 that said "One Got Away" and then showed the numbers 2751 and 2753, with the latter crossed out.
Could be 2751 is powered up, the horn is supplied by the main air res pipe so could be 088 is powering it
Cork kept its 2700's under cover and some did start up from store, 2751 was moved to Limerick and was serviced in expectation of a project which was then cancelled and sent back to Cork
Is 2751 being supplied to Maam Cross in operable order or just for static display? I assume Inchicore isn’t the only place on the network a rail to road transfer can be executed and therefore some pre-release parts recovery is intended? Train radio or CAWS gear etc wouldn’t be needed there if salvageable for other units pending GSM-R/ECTS.
Curious is wasn’t brought to Athenry or Claremorris
Only items of value are the radio which is the old UIC type which is being replaced with GSM R so pointless to salvage
The CAWS gear is of value, Translink are in the market for a few sets for its C4K but there are 27 other 2700 cabs already salvaged
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