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  • #422
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,490 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Dont know if this has been posted here before but it's well worth the watch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKSH6oHVws

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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjFJmb8Xvu8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcOvZ_rSlI


  • #423
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Tl;dw. Whats the gist of it?


  • #424
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,490 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    newmug wrote: »
    Tl;dw. Whats the gist of it?

    I thought it was quite interesting in that it sums up many of the arguments on here quite well- even though it is about British Rail many moons ago, A tale of rail competing with buses and cars, and how decades of underinvestment and misinvestment have led to a railway system held together with packing tape-quick fixes not always being the right fix etc. It is quite similar to the situation Irish Rail finds itself in today!


  • #425
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,922 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfTp3_N_08c&feature=related

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #426
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,922 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    some stuff from our friends accross the pond, yeah their no 071s 201s and so on but some lovely growling never the less (if i do say so myself) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAlQtPTSaI&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9iswqXAWE&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yH3asTC-Ts&feature=related

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



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  • #427
    Rud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Rud


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlT_S1pC2E


  • #428
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Rud wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlT_S1pC2E

    Where is that?


  • #429
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Straffan, Co. Kildare by the 13-1/4MP.


  • #430
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    Uh-oh. How can this thread be threatening to drop off the first page?

    Here's a clip of the 2011 "Trolley (tram) Pageant" (well, mostly trams) at the Illinois Railway Museum. Included in the run-bys are city trams, interurban trams (which often travelled close to a hundred miles one-way), subway (underground) and elevated-railway cars (or "metro" if you like; the video calls them "transit"), examples of freight trams, and some of the big 85-foot-long electric commuter cars of the Illinois Central (today's "Metra Electric"). Trolley-pole-equipped cars and pantograph-equipped cars are running off the same wire.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqIQrDBJgjM


  • #431
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    One of my work colleagues was in Guelph, Ontario last month and sent this to me today. GP38?

    2012_07_12_200355.jpg


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  • #432
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrz0IGrDk3U


  • #433
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    South Clare railtour passing through Athlone earlier this year.
    You can see where they have disconnected the sidings at athlone midland as the train passes through.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwnxP7Yo-4w


  • #434
    Eiretrains
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭Eiretrains


    For those interested in the A Class and have memories of the gypsum trains.:)


  • #435
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Some quality footage there! Despite being just down the road from Navan & Kingscourt - Bray - I only travelled to Kingscourt and back once and Navan twice. Never even got as far as the Tara Mines complex. H&S wouldn't approve of some of the guard's antics - especially stepping across behind the reversing train at Platin. :D


  • #436
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    I take it the Kingcourt line was completely unsignalled?


  • #437
    [Deleted User]
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    demanufactured wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrz0IGrDk3U

    152 looking extremely clean in that video. Certainly doesn't look like that now.


  • #438
    Eiretrains
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭Eiretrains


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    I take it the Kingcourt line was completely unsignalled?
    Yes there was no operational signalling on the line, bar the junction near Tara Mines. The only signals as such were fixed distant semaphores indicating the approach to level crossings, and a few colour light signals at Kells Road automatic crossing outside Navan town.


  • #439
    LEIN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,939 ✭✭✭LEIN




  • #440
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,320 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Eiretrains wrote: »
    Yes there was no operational signalling on the line, bar the junction near Tara Mines. The only signals as such were fixed distant semaphores indicating the approach to level crossings, and a few colour light signals at Kells Road automatic crossing outside Navan town.

    Access to the branch was made via a subsidiary ETS staff on the block section between Navan and Tara Mines. The staff had an Annetts key on it that allowed the train crew to set points to allow their train onto the branch Once the points were reset to the mainline, the block section to and from the mines was freed up for ore traffic and the Gypsum train could work away to it's hearts content, safely locked into the branch. Upon return to Navan, the reverse procedure applied.


  • #441
    Rud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Rud


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


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  • #442
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    British HST "race" in 1990



  • #443
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,940 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Karsini wrote: »
    152 looking extremely clean in that video. Certainly doesn't look like that now.

    The building we see 152 entering at the start what is/was it ? And seeing as 146 was shown to be repaired and repainted is there a special paint facility in inchicore ? I ask that as downpatrick seem to have done a great job with I pressumed with less money and equipment.


  • #444
    [Deleted User]
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    The building we see 152 entering at the start what is/was it ? And seeing as 146 was shown to be repaired and repainted is there a special paint facility in inchicore ? I ask that as downpatrick seem to have done a great job with I pressumed with less money and equipment.

    I've been in Inchicore several times and didn't see anything like it, so I'm not sure. There is a dedicated paint and spray facility there.


  • #445
    KCAccidental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭KCAccidental


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39aHO71m9g


    I don't think I've ever since anyone so excited about anything. EVER.


  • #446
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    You have never been on a IRRS special before.


  • #447
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    KCAccidental wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39aHO71m9g

    I don't think I've ever seen anyone so excited about anything. EVER.
    I think I might have...the above video is a deliberate parody of the "heritage unit" one.


  • #448
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,922 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    the magical sound of english electric thumpers, magical thumping music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHTrrUZFlg

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #449
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,584 ✭✭✭lord lucan




  • #450
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    I missed out on the Tara/Arklow ore trains - it must have been when I was stashing all the cash from Dromod in the Cayman Islands - but where did they operate to? Shelton Abbey would seem obvious but ....


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  • #451
    Eiretrains
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭Eiretrains


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    I missed out on the Tara/Arklow ore trains - it must have been when I was stashing all the cash from Dromod in the Cayman Islands - but where did they operate to? Shelton Abbey would seem obvious but ....
    They operated simply to the goods yard in Arklow station, the containers been transferred to road for the final (costly and tedious) journey to Arklow port. You probably weren't the only one to miss these trains, as it was one of these experimental movements that lasted just six weeks, from mid June to the end of July 1992. :)


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