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  • #212
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Rud wrote: »
    Don't know if this is considered train porn but still

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-iV2nDopvY
    Was that some IE employee trespassing on the railway with his girlfriend and mates?


  • #213
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • #214
    corktina
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    Mallow as I like to remember it....not a patch on what is was now


  • #215
    roundymac
    Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    Agreed, was up there latly to meet someone, went a bit early to enjoy myself, what boredom, depressing is the only way to describe it. Wall to wall effing railcars.:eek:


  • #216
    Eiretrains
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭Eiretrains


    Part 3 and 4 of the RPSI trip to Cork in 1985 from this user. The amount of 'on track' photographers and spectators is amazing.:D




    Happy times at Mallow, JD might even remember this scene?


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  • #217
    Jehuty42
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    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Was that some IE employee trespassing on the railway with his girlfriend and mates?
    Why the hell would you assume it's an IE employee and not just random locals going out for the craic? For gods sake Foggy!


  • #218
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,468 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    what are the inner rails bolted to it for? Stabilisation?


  • #219
    Judgement Day
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    Eiretrains wrote: »
    Part 3 and 4 of the RPSI trip to Cork in 1985 from this user. The amount of 'on track' photographers and spectators is amazing.:D


    Happy times at Mallow, JD might even remember this scene?

    Certainly do remember it well. Not a high viz vest in sight - those were certainly the days! Driver Mick McGuinness, who features at Mallow, drove the weedspray trains after the late lamented Paddy Neville went to the great marshalling yard in the sky. And poor old diner 2409 in the bay platform - I've probably shaved with it since!:D


  • #220
    Judgement Day
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    what are the inner rails bolted to it for? Stabilisation?

    Nah, they date from when it was proposed to convert Dublin/Belfast to 15 inch gauge. :D


  • #221
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Further to my earlier post about the new train being trialled in Norway, things went "off the rails" in the latest test this morning.

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    Five employees injured, one seriously but no fatalities. It has only happened this morning so no news on how it happened. The train was doing around 100km/h when the derailing occurred.


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  • #222
    [Deleted User]
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    Live map of London Underground trains


  • #223
    gsxr1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    pg633 wrote: »
    Live map of London Underground trains

    wow. Air traffic control X10


  • #224
    [Deleted User]
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    This one came up on my YouTube feed today. 177 hauling an ICR with square wheels.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fTkY-O5KBo


  • #225
    bryaner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    starch4ser wrote: »
    train.jpg

    A mate of mine drives these old heaps on the Tara, they have to leave them running overnight as the GM engines are to hard to get going again if stopped, likely compression trouble and its cheaper to use up diesel opposed to new pots-pistons..


  • #226
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    bryaner wrote: »
    A mate of mine drives these majestic beauties on the Tara, they have to leave them running overnight as the GM engines are to hard to get going again if stopped, likely compression trouble and its cheaper to use up diesel opposed to new pots-pistons..

    FYP.:)

    Pedant: Thats a 141 class pictured which are now retired. The 071 class operate the Tara Mines trains.


  • #227
    bryaner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    lord lucan wrote: »
    FYP.:)

    Pedant: Thats a 141 class pictured which are now retired. The 071 class operate the Tara Mines trains.

    Ha ha they look the same to me, he says the're old dogs to drive..


  • #228
    [Deleted User]
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    bryaner wrote: »
    Ha ha they look the same to me, he says the're old dogs to drive..

    A friend of mine is a driver in IE, he said "there's nothing better than going through the centre line at Kildare in an 071 in 8, and watching the passengers on the platforms covering their ears."


  • #229
    Oscar Bravo
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    The 071s are always shut down overnight in Ballina freight yard and of late they are starting fine,even after a weekend in cold weather.I recall 084 being started in Westport over the Christmas,some cloud of smoke from her!!


  • #230
    [Deleted User]
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    Oscar Bravo wrote: »
    The 071s are always shut down overnight in Balling freight yard and of late they are starting fine,even after a weekend in cold weather.I recall 084 being started in Westport over the Christmas,some cloud of smoke from her!!

    I've never seen an IE loco being started but have seen YouTube videos of other GMs being started. They seem to start fairly easily. The British-built ex-BR locos look like they take ages to get going.


  • #231
    Oscar Bravo
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    I remember being in Westport on this very day when 078 failed while shunting the 1530(Mk2s) onto the platform,072 was sent LE from Ballina to assist,heres some footage(not great)quality www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftCzOrk55Kc&list=UUfvZfm4OL9N3lvA0g66-S2Q&index=38&feature=plcp


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  • #232
    L1011
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    During the DART upgrade a few years ago when Maynooth trains ran to Drumcondra only on weekends there'd always be at least one 071 stabled in Maynooth's sidings each weekend night, and it was always left running. Could hear it from my house if the upstairs windows were open, but seeing as I can still hear the station announcements and I've moved further away I think there's some magic sound carrying properties at that station...

    They may have sorted whatever the problem was.


  • #233
    Oscar Bravo
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    Indeed there is a lovely sound of a 71 ticking over,however in the case of Ballina/Westport it was numerous complaints from locals(in fairly recent times) to IE which lead to the decision to shut down the locos overnight/weekends.I think Drogheda is now the same.


  • #234
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Oscar Bravo wrote: »
    Indeed there is a lovely sound of a 71 ticking over,however in the case of Ballina/Westport it was numerous complaints from locals(in fairly recent times) to IE which lead to the decision to shut down the locos overnight/weekends.I think Drogheda is now the same.

    I'd love to fall asleep to the sounds of an 071 idling overnight. Residents don't know what they're missing!:)


  • #235
    dowlingm
    Registered Users Posts: 5,309 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    Tie (sleeper) replacement gang:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjCQMwSbxEA

    New track laying train:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR8uh_fyoEg

    Project page:
    http://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-rail/capital-investment/feature-story/metal-muscle


  • #236
    Losty Dublin
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    Karsini wrote: »
    I've never seen an IE loco being started but have seen YouTube videos of other GMs being started. They seem to start fairly easily. The British-built ex-BR locos look like they take ages to get going.

    A couple of years ago when I was working in Inchicore on the RPSI set, a 071 was parked up and spent about 2 hours being started up from dead before being turned off to repeat the cycle. It's some whack of noise it gives off for sure and not at all good for the feint of heart or the weak willed. Oddly enough, the engine of a 001 class is nowhere near as loud and that's even though it's pretty much the same EMD powerhead, sans a turbocharger kit. And that's from inside the compartment!


  • #237
    newmug
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    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    On single track lines, tokens are used to stop 2 trains being in the same section at the same time.

    So say a train wants from station A to Station B, the signal man will issue a token to the driver of the train to show that he has sole use of that section of line. Once the token has been issued no trains can enter that section. So the signalman at station B would not be able to issue a token going to A as the instruments and signals are interlocked. Once the train arrives at B he hands the token over and the signal inserts it into the machine which then releases the line. So then signalman B can send a train back to A or A can send another train towards B.

    Hope that makes some sense.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)
    foggy_lad wrote: »
    The tokens were a way of locking signals and points in a certain configuration so that only one train could be allowed or cleared for any section of track, Afaik it also blocked the section before the track that the train was on to allow a safety buffer. when the token was used it locked signals in place and was then passed to the train driver who would give it to the signalman at the end of the section he was travelling on, the token is then put in a machine which unlocks the signals and points on the cleared track and the train cant proceed without a new token for the next section.



    What would happen is somebody dropped the token? Did it ever happen?


  • #238
    Losty Dublin
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    newmug wrote: »
    What would happen is somebody dropped the token? Did it ever happen?

    If a token wasn't collected, a train would have to stop and retrieve it as it was his permission to be on a section of track; no token and a signal man would have to block his path by placing signals at danger and notify the next signalman/men en route that a train could not be given permission to proceed. It was nigh impossible for them to not be collected as many trains needed to stop at stations to pass them on while large hoops were provided to aid catching them. Some loco's and signal cabins had apparatus provided to help them catch the tokens at speed; throwing them off at the right place was another matter ;)


  • #239
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    The "Sugar Cane Train" on Maui Island, Hawaii. Operated by the Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific over six miles of what once was a 200-mile network of three-foot-gauge sugar plantation railways. The engine, #1 "Anaka", was actually built in 1943 by H.K. Porter as an 0-4-0ST engine; the LKPRR redid it to resemble an old wood-burning engine, down to the spark-arrestor chimney and the oil-burning headlamp, and of course converting it to 2-4-0 tender configuration.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws9h7pP0iyU


  • #240
    [Deleted User]
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    One of the new GE-built Class 70 locos in the UK. Sounds more like a washing machine than a loco!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWJ4er1qLk


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  • #241
    Niles
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    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    If a token wasn't collected, a train would have to stop and retrieve it as it was his permission to be on a section of track; no token and a signal man would have to block his path by placing signals at danger and notify the next signalman/men en route that a train could not be given permission to proceed.

    I seem to remember a story where a up-till-then speeding Cork-Rosslare Express was delayed while the crew searched from a token that was dropped.


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