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#102 28-12-2011 9:21pm

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I believe Wexford Quay has a 5mph speed limit. Jack London Square has 15mph. Makes you wonder if IE couldn't squeeze a bit more speed out of the Quay.

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#103 29-12-2011 12:12am

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Is the Wexford Quays the only street running tracks in Ireland? I've never noticed another on my travels!

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#104 29-12-2011 12:14am

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purplepanda wrote: »

Is the Wexford Quays the only street running tracks in Ireland? I've never noticed another on my travels!

Alexandra Road near Dublin Port would be another, the Tara trains still go along there.

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#105 29-12-2011 12:29am

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Those two sections had 5MPH limits imposed as they both initially required flagmen to walk the train through. While this was dropped at Wexford, North Wall still requires same to this day.

A quick look at this video shows us how open the section of line is, albeit 20 years ago. The jury is out if it's safe to take a speed limit of even 10MPH given the ease people and cars have to cross the line.

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#106 29-12-2011 1:35am

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A long gone on street scene - C209 is seen here on the Lower Glanmire Road on the Cork City Railway en route from Glanmire Road station to Albert Quay station. Photo from Colourail.

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#107 29-12-2011 1:49am

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkEtjzCATEs
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Painful watching a 100mph set crawl like this, and seeing an IE worker paid to raise barriers to facilitate a feckin car park. At least you could understand when there was an active quay alongside that there would be limits to how much of a barrier could be imposed.

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#108 29-12-2011 4:04pm

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Found this wonderful photo site of CIE in 1984 by accident just now - you genuine enthusiasts probably know of it already but here it is: http://steverabone.com/RailwayPhotographs/ireland_1984.htm

Sligo MPD before it was 'rationalised'.

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#109 29-12-2011 4:15pm

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SLNCR B looked in about as bolloxed condition then as it does now...

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#110 29-12-2011 4:20pm

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MYOB wrote: »

SLNCR B looked in about as bolloxed condition then as it does now...

Funny that you should say that, as I have been telling people the very same for more than 20 years. It arrived at Mallow wrecked and left for NI little worse for its time spent in the GSRPS depot.

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#111 29-12-2011 6:36pm

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Judgement Day wrote: »

Found this wonderful photo site of CIE in 1984 by accident just now - you genuine enthusiasts probably know of it already but here it is: http://steverabone.com/RailwayPhotographs/ireland_1984.htm

Sligo MPD before it was 'rationalised'.

Nice find. Good to see a collection that includes individual shots of carriages and not just locos, the former seem to have been neglected by many photographers.

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Nice find indeed. Loving the photos of the Mark 3s, which were brand new at that time.

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#113 29-12-2011 9:59pm

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Excellent find JD.

I have some slides from the 70s taken at Goolds Cross pre CTC but they've deteriorated badly, will see if I can do anything with them.

On the subject of street running, I hope to visit the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway next time I'm seeing my sister in NZ. Recently reopened after being shut down in 2000 after various factions fell out (sound familiar? :rolleyes:)

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#114 29-12-2011 10:12pm

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8mm cine film of Cork City Railway taken in 1976, don't know if it's been linked to before.

I was in Cork in 1978 and remember following the tramway, no camera though :rolleyes:

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#115 29-12-2011 11:45pm

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Now that's a gem of footage there, never seen it before, the mind bobbles at the thought of running such a train nowadays (or even back then!)

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#116 30-12-2011 12:26am

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edit: ignore this.

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#117 30-12-2011 12:30am

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It was only put up a month ago, I just entered a search after finding the NZ video and was surprised to see it. Interesting comment on there from the uploader, CIE man who was goods messenger in Cork and had a cine camera with him.

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#118 30-12-2011 12:43am

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It's one of my lasting regrets that I never travelled on, or saw, a train crossing the Cork City Railway despite being in the area a number of times in the early 1970s. I always thought that as long as the line still crossed the river that there was a chance of some rebirth of the railway in West Cork but alas...

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#119 30-12-2011 4:52am

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All: Thanks for all the Cork City Railway stuff. Rare stuff that IMHO ought to have lasted longer.

Change of pace: This is perhaps one of the oddest things one might see in terms of North American passenger rail...carriages intended originally for the Nightstar service (through the Eurotunnel Channel Tunnel), VIA Rail bought these Alstom-built cars built to British loading gauge and renamed them the "Renaissance" fleet. This video shows them on the "Ocean" service between Montreal and Halifax in Nova Scotia, passing Painsec Junction in Moncton, New Brunswick; the Renaissance cars are contrasted size-wise with both the F40PH locomotives and the Budd dome/observation car at the rear.

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

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#120 30-12-2011 11:14am

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They are tiny in comparison to the locos! Wondererd what happened to the Nightstar coaches.

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#121 30-12-2011 12:48pm

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101sean just made my day....:D:D

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#122 30-12-2011 1:25pm

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corktina wrote: »

101sean just made my day....:D:D

Good stuff indeed, remember the trains ok., same end of town as 'de Arc' - who remembers that ?

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#123 30-12-2011 5:14pm

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101sean wrote: »

They are tiny in comparison to the locos! Wondererd what happened to the Nightstar coaches.

Wonder what it took to redo them for Canadian HEP, too. Also, it looks like they weren't all converted to AAR couplers, so there is some compromise coupling between them and the locos and to the Budd cars. Furthermore, VIA Rail's own page says they were built by Metro-Cammell and not Alstom (based on the Mark 4, so it has some "sibling" resemblance to the Intercity 225); should have checked there first, sorry.

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#124 31-12-2011 1:17am

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Just about the only thing that didn't cross the track in front of the train was a chicken!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn47JnrS2QQ

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#125 31-12-2011 4:50am

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I remember this video; it was done with a zoom lens. The cars are quite a bit further away from the train than they might appear. Also, trains cannot legally run red lights or stop signs, AFAIK.

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#126 01-01-2012 2:49am

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CIE wrote: »

Also, trains cannot legally run red lights or stop signs, AFAIK.

neither can cars do it legally, doesn't mean they don't.
I'm not sure what you mean by that...

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#127 01-01-2012 2:54am

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Cookie_Monster wrote: »

neither can cars do it legally, doesn't mean they don't.
I'm not sure what you mean by that...

US railway companies are pretty strict on their locomotive drivers. If there's a red light or even a stop sign on a tramway, even the big heavy freights have to stop for them, unless of course there is some predetermined pre-emption in place; they can't just blow the level crossing signal on their horn and proceed through.

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#128 02-01-2012 1:06pm

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steamengine wrote: »

Good stuff indeed, remember the trains ok., same end of town as 'de Arc' - who remembers that ?

Sadly now a block of apartments.:mad:

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#129 03-01-2012 11:03am

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Tis the season

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#130 03-01-2012 9:03pm

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This just turned up in my Youtube feed,some great footage.:)

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#131 03-01-2012 11:00pm

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Someone said "far too few pix". Well, here's an interesting one all the way from Lancaster, Pennsylvania way back on 12/12/1966...a "Santa Claus Special" running on a tramway on narrow Water Street, pulled by the Pennsylvania Railroad's D16sb class 4-4-0. (Don't recall when this tramway was lifted.) No. 1223 (built 1905, Belpaire firebox as original equipment, rebuilt with superheating about a decade later) is currently on display at the museum in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, after running its excursion trains until the 80s.

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#132 04-01-2012 12:37am

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#133 04-01-2012 12:53am

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Nice steady camera work there! Nice to see the Ahhh Class too, much better than a smutty old kettle any day.

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#134 04-01-2012 1:00am

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what is nice about this video even though it's about a youghal goods train it's narrated and also things are explained as they are happening.

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#135 04-01-2012 12:50pm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UNhpbL7HVM

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#136 04-01-2012 1:10pm

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demanufactured - Great video from the days when the railway still served some purpose.

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#137 04-01-2012 1:16pm

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With a bit of judicious horn-blowing they could certainly up the speed a bit. I spent a weekend in Wexford last Easter and what I did notice was how silent the railcars were. It wasn't always immediately audible that one was coming.

The luas manages to go along city streets at a faster pace so I'm sure that IE could manage it as well .

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#138 09-01-2012 6:38pm

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Spotted this postcard on eBay.de today - nice one for bridge aficionados.

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#139 09-01-2012 9:40pm

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And another of the Cork City Railway found tonight while searching for Corktina's elusive platform pic for Glanmire Road.

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#140 10-01-2012 9:45am

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Great Mk3 Cortina!

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#141 10-01-2012 12:58pm

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Albert Road, the way I like to remember it.;)

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#142 10-01-2012 1:00pm

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Just spotted, is that a mk 2 cortina behind the flagman? and a Consul/granada next to it.

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#143 10-01-2012 1:14pm

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Id say so and a Mk1 escort to the right, and whats that back bumper just creeping in on the very right? Granada Coupe perhaps?

I'll post it in Classic cars... :-)

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#144 10-01-2012 1:17pm

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A morris minor behind the mk3 cortina too. Oh happy days.:D

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#145 10-01-2012 1:22pm

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Judgement Day wrote: »

Spotted this postcard on eBay.de today - nice one for bridge aficionados.

i prefer my version....quoted photo for direct comparison, naughty I know...

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#146 12-01-2012 9:10pm

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Shades of back to the future! I found this tonight while looking for a pic of 800 leaving Cork.

http://www.drimoleague.com/railway.html

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#147 13-01-2012 4:28am

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Thanks for that photo. This page shows what the Drimoleague station looks like now. Government serve...

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#148 13-01-2012 9:28pm

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Any ideas where this is?

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#149 13-01-2012 9:33pm

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Looks like the rear of a train departing Inch Abbey, Downpatrick, am I right?:D

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#150 13-01-2012 9:34pm

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Eiretrains wrote: »

Looks like the rear of a train departing Inch Abbey, Downpatrick, am I right?:D

No :):)

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#151 15-01-2012 5:35am

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU52G8wKSyo
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Rear view from a VIA Rail train heading west from Toronto Union Station to Oakville. Visible is the Toronto business district/CN Tower, some GO Transit bilevel consists, a VIA P42DC and its LRC carriage consist and the GO Transit Willowbrook (left side)/VIA Rail Toronto Maintenance Centre (right side) in west Toronto. I think line speed on that section (Oakville Sub) is 95mph.

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