Irish Railways Video Thread

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 3 in the series covers 2010 and 2011. Included is 112 on the Tara, a Luas towing another Luas and a steam train.

Enjoy!

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.

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).

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?

last days of Dundalk barrack street yard.

Another of those excellent IRRS film restorations: Thurles to Clonmel.