Irish Railways Video Thread

I found Eiretrains video on youtube over the weekend. Amazing footage and great to have. Hope he doesn't mind me posting it here.

Evening,

Some footage of the weedsprayer on the South Wexford Line last week:


Finbarr.

2015 Weedsprayer Train to East Cork Footage

https://youtu.be/sN1Np_IEDTw

Cobh Road HOBS this week
: https://youtu.be/iGKGD221tzk

Eiretrains wrote: »

No not all, appreciate that plug, have to say I didn't shoot that particular video as credited If you wish to keep up to date with new videos on my channel do subscribe.

Here is the latest offering of 'Merlin' of more very recent times

Did I see this train this evening around 6.45pm in Connolly?

Some action from yesterday's foray to Kilkenny. It's in HD and if you have good sound then let it play out and enjoy the acoustic

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Some action from yesterday's foray to Kilkenny. It's in HD and if you have good sound then let it play out and enjoy the acoustic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdh7Au2jDUs

Great sound, a nice video, thanks.

No. 4 sounds like it's giving it a good old bash. Even a baby GM would struggle to lift nine coaches up the gullet.

Losty Dublin wrote: »

A baby would have lifted them handily enough. In their day just the one loco would have taken many mainline services and with up to 12 carriages behind her. Over time the problems were not so much in tractive power to hand (It was an issue, granted.) but in stopping the set as GM brake pressure wasn't great; this is why pairs became the default configuration for class 121/141/181.

Double heading became the norm to increase performance and punctuality and because they were underpowered for many of the jobs on their own.

There were never issues with them stoping a train, a single 121/141/181 was actually better stoping a train than a 071 as the locos themselves have a better brake force than an 071! Brake pressure does not affect stoping a train!

However what they had problems with was releasing air brakes (vacuum wasn't a problem) on anything over 7 or 8 wagons/carriages when single, never really an issue as anything air brake wise usually needed double heading when on the mainline due to the weight.

The Heuston pilot however often had problems shunting 9 car MkIII sets and you would regularly see the shunter manually releasing the brakes on the carriages to speed things up.

GM228

I might just resurrect this thread with some 071 Class footage, shot during the summer showing PWD and freight trains. :cool:

You have to admire cies optimism.

Two more videos, many more 071 Class locomotives recorded in action in 2015.:cool:
(Part Two)


And (Part Three)

Also I know nostalgia is great but christ some of the track from galway to portarlington was in bad shape.

Edit:At least it looks in bad shape.

ClovenHoof wrote: »

The Galway cab ride is amazing. Would love to see it sharpened up and stabilised with the locations of the stations on it.

The Wicklow to Rosslare Harbour video from the same uploader appears to be stabilised so maybe drop him a message to do the Galway mail as well if possible.