Athlone - Mullingar line

corktina · 30-03-2013 02:50PM

ah that's were you are going wrong, you don't stop at distants, they are just caution signals....pull up to the home and see if that is clear or not. The Bobby may show you a green flag if the signal is at danger, and you can then pull up to the starter and be inside the protection of the signals and what's more, He can pull off to let me out of Midland where I'm blocking the main line with my Tamper. Watch those fishplates though, not sure if I put them all back.

demanufactured · 30-03-2013 04:16PM

I made it into the moate passing loop...apparently I'm waiting for " something " to pass...the signal man never said what it was.....
He's the only one here..ghost station.

corktina · 30-03-2013 07:25PM

ah, that will be the lifting train....:-(

Losty Dublin · 31-03-2013 01:12PM

corktina wrote: »

ah, that will be the lifting train....:-(

Can't be the lifting train yet; it's on it's way down to New Ross as we speak

demanufactured · 31-03-2013 11:53PM

It was the ghost of a pair of 121s and a guiness liner.
The signals are clear and I'm about to rev up 082 for the run to Mullingar .

corktina · 01-04-2013 09:46AM

careful now as the junction there is blocked by a Drumm Railcar being shunted into the scrapyard, withdrawn now as there is no need for green transport any more now that oil prices have fallen so much (this is the Fantasy Thread isn;t it?)

demanufactured · 01-04-2013 10:16PM

(It is indeed)
Currently stopped at the Athlone platforms in Mullingar.
I am to leave the train as another driver is to take over.
Waiting on my train back to Athlone....

Losty Dublin · 01-04-2013 11:33PM

demanufactured wrote: »

(It is indeed)
Currently stopped at the Athlone platforms in Mullingar.
I am to leave the train as another driver is to take over.
Waiting on my train back to Athlone....

I'm firing the next train in. CCC 1 heading up the papers train with 2,000 bales of the Evening Press on board. I'm going like the clappers today due to a bunker full of Zip and 200 briquettes; we may well not stop for you.

demanufactured · 01-04-2013 11:49PM

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I'm firing the next train in. CCC 1 heading up the papers train with 2,000 bales of the Evening Press on board. I'm going like the clappers today due to a bunker full of Zip and 200 briquettes; we may well not stop for you.

LOL
ok
I think there's a yellow inspection cab in the shed I can take back.
You release the token when you get to castletown...

Losty Dublin · 02-04-2013 12:09AM

demanufactured wrote: »

LOL
ok
I think there's a yellow inspection cab in the shed I can take back.
You release the token when you get to castletown...

You can't take it; Driver Nettler White Jr. is sleeping off a night of porter after the races.

If you are to take anything out, take Railcar C. Once there loose shunt her to the Up Molasses when you get to the outer distant; the Horseleap pilot will meet you there with the manual staff.

demanufactured · 02-04-2013 11:55AM

She failed just before horseleap...I need a rescuein!

Losty Dublin · 02-04-2013 12:37PM

demanufactured wrote: »

She failed just before horseleap...I need a rescuein!

What coal were you feeding her?

corktina · 02-04-2013 02:24PM

(please can we have this as a separate thread...it's fun but seriously OT)

No90 and the Westrail boys are available if you need a tow...

Losty Dublin · 02-04-2013 02:32PM

corktina wrote: »

(please can we have this as a separate thread...it's fun but seriously OT)

No90 and the Westrail boys are available if you need a tow...

I wouldn't get them boys to do it. Last rescue they were called out for only got as far as Dunsandle

Wichita Lineman · 25-04-2013 12:10PM

I'm not a train fan per se despite commuting Mullingar to Dublin every day but I am a movie buff and recently watched 'The First Great Train Robbery' starring Sean Connery which was mentioned in this thread a while back. Here are some links with photos of Moate Station. It was called 'Ashford' in the movie.

http://www.ihpc.ie/ihpc/main/Enquiry.asp?iPictureID=14345&iTownID=1027&iCountyID=32
http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php?option=com_films_online&task=view&id=316&limitstart=10

Itssoeasy · 26-04-2013 03:40PM

Andy Dunne11 wrote: »

I'm not a train fan per se despite commuting Mullingar to Dublin every day but I am a movie buff and recently watched 'The First Great Train Robbery' starring Sean Connery which was mentioned in this thread a while back. Here are some links with photos of Moate Station. It was called 'Ashford' in the movie.

http://www.ihpc.ie/ihpc/main/Enquiry.asp?iPictureID=14345&iTownID=1027&iCountyID=32
http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php?option=com_films_online&task=view&id=316&limitstart=10

I watched it aswell recently(thank you netflix) and Kent station is the station at the end called Folkstone and they even got the big billboard thing that sits above the tunnel to say folkstone.

26-04-2013 07:15PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I watched it aswell recently(thank you netflix) and Kent station is the station at the end called Folkstone and they even got the big billboard thing that sits above the tunnel to say folkstone.

But... but... it's the wrong gauge.

:pac:

Must take a look at it myself.

cml387 · 26-04-2013 07:41PM

To add to the confusion, I remember passing by Heuston at that time and a big fake sign was up saying London Bridge Station.

Losty Dublin · 26-04-2013 11:18PM

cml387 wrote: »

To add to the confusion, I remember passing by Heuston at that time and a big fake sign was up saying London Bridge Station.

King, London. All the same sort of a bridge to you or me

Itssoeasy · 26-04-2013 11:22PM

Karsini wrote: »

But... but... it's the wrong gauge. :pac:

Must take a look at it myself.

Ah stop do you think the film cared about gauges. I thing the bay platforms were used in Kent but I can't be sure. The canopies look the same but I can't say for sure.

Itssoeasy · 26-04-2013 11:28PM

Actually where in the parish and what film was it that an A class was painted into a French livery ?

Eiretrains · 26-04-2013 11:51PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Actually where in the parish and what film was it that an A class was painted into a French livery ?

Pink Panther Strikes Again - on the Navan branch

metrovick001 · 30-04-2013 09:46AM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Actually where in the parish and what film was it that an A class was painted into a French livery ?

Filmed around Lougher, east of Beauparc in 1976
Two helicopters involved - one in the shot lifting a stunt man off the roof of the train & the second filming the sequence!

dennis124wwr · 28-05-2013 09:35PM

Does someone have old timetables from that line.

dennis124wwr · 28-05-2013 09:37PM

Does someone have old timetables from that line.

dennis124wwr · 28-05-2013 09:39PM

simon_24 wrote: »

I live close to the now derelict Athlone/mullingar line, I was wondering does anyone has pictures of it in its heyday, trains, stations, from the 70s or 80s, I'm only a newcomer to the area and always wondered what it was like???

Did you walk some of the line.

demanufactured · 27-06-2013 08:42PM

Work going on at Athlone on this line today at the level crossing and I also saw a few workers on one of the bridges it crosses over too...
Anyone any clue what's happening???
Getting ready to be lifted perhaps??

gobnaitolunacy · 28-06-2013 09:08AM

Is that shell of a signal cabin still there, or is it demolished?

Think it was called the 73rd Mile Box or something?

Temp101 · 28-06-2013 09:18AM

73rd Mile is gone some years, but the concrete blocks of the base may still exist as rubble in the undergrowth.

demanufactured · 28-06-2013 03:03PM

Temp101 wrote: »

73rd Mile is gone some years, but the concrete blocks of the base may still exist as rubble in the undergrowth.

Was that the small hut at the gates in Athlone ??

Athlone - Mullingar line

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