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IE's 071 Class.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    084 is in Ballina attached to DFDS,howver it will not work it tomorrow.086 went light engine from Inchicore-Ballina today and will work the liner tomorrow.084 will return light engine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    It's a pity Kildare isn't really a great spot to be doing loco swaps so that that 084 could pull in northbound and 086 dash onto the back and bring it to Waterford rather than all this deadheading.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    They have done that before, MD. Big problem with it is that it fouls up the line for quite a while with waiting trains and locos so it's quicker to let the hauling loco take it all the way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    yeah Losty that's what I meant - it's a bad location to be performing those sorts of manoeuvres. It may be that in this case they thought 084 just couldn't do the job but at first glance it seems like a waste.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Re 084, you'd be surprised. In recent years 152 was one of, if not the, worst looking of the 141s yet the engine underneath was perfectly healthy. I was standing beside 152 and 171 on the IRRS special a few years back (where 171 failed) and 152 sounded a lot nicer than 171 did.


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


    Karsini wrote: »
    Re 084, you'd be surprised. In recent years 152 was one of, if not the, worst looking of the 141s yet the engine underneath was perfectly healthy. I was standing beside 152 and 171 on the IRRS special a few years back (where 171 failed) and 152 sounded a lot nicer than 171 did.

    Correct me if I'm wrong here. Wasn't the reason 152 ended up in that state was because it was on long term loan to NIR as a temporary swap for 112?

    I know one of the 141s were on loan and I forget which but I think it was 152.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Correct me if I'm wrong here. Wasn't the reason 152 ended up in that state was because it was on long term loan to NIR as a temporary swap for 112?

    I know one of the 141s were on loan and I forget which but I think it was 152.

    I have a photo (not mine) of York Road taken on August 16th, 2006 and 162 is there, in front of a silver 201.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    RE 084,this loco was in Inchicore works beginning body works(parked behind 087) when 080 failed.THEY had no other loco available to haul the liner,to say the least 084 let the side down more than once that day.It was not able to haul the liner Friday morning,hence 086 being sent to Ballina to haul the liner.084 is now back at Inchicore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Rud


    RE 084,this loco was in Inchicore works beginning body works(parked behind 087) when 080 failed.THEY had no other loco available to haul the liner,to say the least 084 let the side down more than once that day.It was not able to haul the liner Friday morning,hence 086 being sent to Ballina to haul the liner.084 is now back at Inchicore.

    I got a glimpse of 086 from work today as it left Athy and it sounded bloody awful and looked like it was getting hassle pulling the containers out of the station and it wasn't even fully loaded!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭Hungerford


    RE 084,this loco was in Inchicore works beginning body works(parked behind 087) when 080 failed.THEY had no other loco available to haul the liner,to say the least 084 let the side down more than once that day.It was not able to haul the liner Friday morning,hence 086 being sent to Ballina to haul the liner.084 is now back at Inchicore.

    Any word on when 087's body works will be completed and the loco back in action? It would help relieve the doubters who believe that body works are, in reality, the new sound barrier at Inchicore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    078 should be next out,i stress should.087 has many a month to go in Inchicore if it comes out at all.A last working date for 078 would be nice if somebody had one.I recall it completly shutting down several times with a liner on the Ballina branch shorty before it disappeared off to Inchicore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    A failed 078 left in Claremorris


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    081 leaves the Ballina branch onto the Westport-Dublin line with a Ballina-Waterford timber


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


    I saw 083 today still on the taras. Rumbled north through Killester at 13:50 with just 7 empties. They usually have 10-12, I wonder are some of the tara wagons in Limerick for some bogie and body work.


  • Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭Hungerford


    078 should be next out,i stress should.087 has many a month to go in Inchicore if it comes out at all.A last working date for 078 would be nice if somebody had one.I recall it completly shutting down several times with a liner on the Ballina branch shorty before it disappeared off to Inchicore.

    I apologise if this may seem like a blatantly obvious question but are they actually refurbishing the 071s that they chose not to overhaul previously? :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Well the plan was,going back a few years the 18 of them were to be painted regardless. 12 were to be re-engined,081 was the first done and to emerge in Silver and Black. off the top of my head 072,076 and 085 were just painted and never re-engined,although 076 got a second hand engine years previous.That left 077,078,084 and 087 at the time working in Orange. Now we hear 087 is getting a full body overhaul,this a result of the state the other painted 071s have gone into only a few years after painting.The fact is they need them and if the lack of attention continues from IE there will be more and more failures.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    Pity IE wouldn't put a photographer into Inchicore to create an article like this:
    http://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-rail/capital-investment/article/f40-story-position-2-primed-progress

    Same prime mover family too (EMD 645), although the F40 is a 16valve plus that new generator :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭Hungerford


    dowlingm wrote: »
    Same prime mover family too (EMD 645), although the F40 is a 16valve plus that new generator :D

    That photo reminds of me of the saying about the old broom without any original parts left.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Hungerford wrote: »
    That photo reminds of me of the saying about the old broom without any original parts left.
    10 handles and 16 new heads. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I just heard a 071 thundering past the end of my parents garden near Sandycove, on full throttle at 0030 am. Something that I have not heard in a good long time. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Locos 080 and 079 were resting in Ballina at 8pm this evening.088 is working a Ballast train which is stabled in Ballyhaunis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    081 worked the Waterford-Westport empty timber train today


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    and 079 worked the Ballina-Waterford laden timber train


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


    An 071 went through Clonmel towards Limerick 9.30ish today with 3 empty timber wagons and probably the same one back again towards Waterford 2 hours later with another 3 timber wagons (I assume not the same ones!).

    Too far away to get numbers and I was waving a chainsaw around anyway so shouldn't even have been looking :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭Dublin Spotter


    Waterford-Ballina - 079 - DFDS liner
    Ballina-Waterford - 080 - DFDS liner
    Waterford-Westport - 075 - empty timer service
    Westport-Waterford - 081 - timer service


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 42 Mayo checker


    075 seen in claremorris today light engine it must have travelled up there today from westport it worked an empty timber to westport ,,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Must be an April fool Mayo Checker as 075 is in Westport since 7.20 pm Friday and shut down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    075 shunting its timber train back down Westport yard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,785 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    080 was in Carlow with autoblasters. last noted there on Monday 10 April.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,537 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    080 was in Carlow with autoblasters. last noted there on Monday 10 April.

    You mean like this? http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2010/11/robert-farago/megahouse-auto-blaster-for-the-rubber-band-man-rubber-band-man/ :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    075 is stabled in Claremorris over the weekend with an empty timber train for Westport


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    and here


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


    The sound, the sound. Bliss, I could fall asleep to this. The last 071 I heard was at 22.30 on Saturday heading north to Drogheda LE. Bring on the week of taras.





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


    075 is stabled in Claremorris over the weekend with an empty timber train for Westport
    075, is'nt that the engine that was involved in the Buttavent tragady?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    roundymac wrote: »
    075, is'nt that the engine that was involved in the Buttavent tragady?

    Yep, it was 075 alright.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17 duffmckegean


    Amazing to think that over 30 years on this engine is still running.
    was it damaged in any way in the buttevant incident?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Only the Front plates were damaged on 075.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17 duffmckegean


    Only the Front plates were damaged on 075.

    Forgive my ignorance, but are the front plates the same as the buffers?
    im assuming these hit the buffers in the siding so?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,549 ✭✭✭cml387


    Forgive my ignorance, but are the front plates the same as the buffers?
    im assuming these hit the buffers in the siding so?


    As I recall the locomotive just derailed and stopped some distance forward of the points. It never went into the sidings and was only slightly damaged.butte.jpg?id=7001950


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    When it's topmost, the RPSI 171 for 171 tour is running on Saturday and should be 071 powered all the way to Cork and back. If the last few diesel tours are anything to go by, there may be a loco swap down there. Either way, a good day is on the cards :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Just reading through the posts here and then back to what passes for reality......

    http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/train-driver-hurt-by-dropped-brick-3085449.html

    A charge of attempted murder is the only place to begin here IMO....:mad:


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    When it's topmost, the RPSI 171 for 171 tour is running on Saturday and should be 071 powered all the way to Cork and back. If the last few diesel tours are anything to go by, there may be a loco swap down there. Either way, a good day is on the cards :)



    Whats the story there, where's it leaving from, what time, where do you get tickets, what carraiges are they bringing?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


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


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Just reading through the posts here and then back to what passes for reality......

    http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/train-driver-hurt-by-dropped-brick-3085449.html

    A charge of attempted murder is the only place to begin here IMO....:mad:
    What people continually fail to grasp is that all these people of whatever age(5-50) who do things like this are "DAMAGED" and in the not so distant past they would have been incarcerated in mental health institutions or industrial schools for the good of society, Caring for such people in the community as they wreak havoc comes at a huge price!


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


    When it's topmost, the RPSI 171 for 171 tour is running on Saturday and should be 071 powered all the way to Cork and back. If the last few diesel tours are anything to go by, there may be a loco swap down there. Either way, a good day is on the cards :)
    Over on IRN news it gives the impression that it's 171 all the way to cork.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    roundymac wrote: »
    Over on IRN news it gives the impression that it's 171 all the way to cork.

    Link please? I can't see any mention of same :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,771 ✭✭✭flyingsnail


    RPSI Bulletin (1269) - 18th April 2012
    171 FOR 171

    Tickets have been mailed to those who have booked for the tour.

    There are still some tickets available and these are available for purchase on the day on board the train.

    Tickets are priced at €50 for the return trip to Cork and all money raised form this railtour including Buffet/Bar/Raffle sales will go directly to the restoration of locomotive No.171 “Slieve Gullion”.

    The train departs from Pearse Station at 09:45, with arrival into Cork at 13:30. Departure from Cork is at 16:10 with a non-stop return up the mainline, with an arrival shortly after 19:00.

    Motive power for the day in the shape of an IÉ 071 diesel locomotive has been requested.

    I have no idea how many tickets are still available


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


    I have no idea how many tickets are still available

    That is a pretty miserable time for the journey to Cork, They should consider laying on a few Aircoach bus transfers:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,523 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    That is a pretty miserable time for the journey to Cork, They should consider laying on a few Aircoach bus transfers:D

    have to give them time to eat their chi... oops and drink their ging.. oh, can't say that either.

    nothing to see here, move along, move along.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,151 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    That is a pretty miserable time for the journey to Cork, They should consider laying on a few Aircoach bus transfers:D

    For goodness sakes it is a railtour - the whole point is to stop along the way for photos etc.

    Journey time is irrelevant.

    Is it not possible for you to not make any derogatory comments about anything?


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


    lxflyer wrote: »
    For goodness sakes it is a railtour - the whole point is to stop along the way for photos etc.

    Journey time is irrelevant.

    Is it not possible for you to not make any derogatory comments about anything?
    Of course I know it is a railtour and will be stopping at loads of stations en-route to allow people climb water towers and bridges and take pictures hence my use of :D

    I am all in favour of railtours and tourist attractions on the railway as I see it as a viable future.


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