Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.

Train porn

1…4244464748

Comments

  • #1292
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    1936: When you could still see most of Ireland by rail.

    The poor old Tralee & Dingle had just three years to go before it was to lose its passenger trains and the branch to Castlegregory.

    Note the inclusion of the long closed and lifted Killinick/Felthouse (1906/11) line in south Wexford; and the Shilleagh branch is shown as only going as far as Aughrim which only happened in 1944. It seems gremlins are not a recent phenomenon.

    1936%2BGSR%2BFARES.jpg

    ****



  • #1293
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,415 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyo2SR3z9Iw


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


    A couple of videos from tom Ryan of the past on the cork to youghal line.


  • #1294
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    The second last (?) passenger special before closure. I seem to remember that there was one other special from Midleton to (?) and then the end. Nice to see some familiar faces. :)

    ****



  • #1295
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,838 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    this would be the BDSM end of porn

    https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/1234075266965786626

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #1296
    Madelyn Little Mullet
    Posts: 0 ✭ Madelyn Little Mullet


    How about having a full size train set in your back garden.


    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-sussex-52487203/eastbourne-man-builds-railway-in-his-garden

    Eastbourne man builds railway in his garden

    Adrian Backshall has used the lockdown to finish a remarkable project.
    The retired British Rail worker has built a 30ft railway in his back garden in Eastbourne, complete with hand-cranked wagon.
    He is now in negotiations with his wife Ruth, in a bid to extend the line by 45ft to the end of the garden.


  • Advertisement
  • #1297
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    School tour: Ostend 1976.


    OSTEND.png

    Fantastic coastal tramway with ancient pre.WW.II. vehicles with wood panelled interiors. They were a big deal for me never having seen a tram of any description before save for photographs. All modernised now and I haven't been back so will retain the memory.

    ****



  • #1298
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    The pre-war trams had been replaced by new trams by 1982. It is shocking to think that these also have been replaced.


  • #1299
    Madelyn Little Mullet
    Posts: 0 ✭ Madelyn Little Mullet


    tabbey wrote: »
    The pre-war trams had been replaced by new trams by 1982. It is shocking to think that these also have been replaced.
    It is, When you consider that Blackpool is still running the same trams from the1930s

    Edit: I just looked them up and they have also bought a new fleet of trams to do most of the tramsportation, with the old ones for tourists.


  • #1300
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Madelyn Little Mullet wrote: »
    It is, When you consider that Blackpool is still running the same trams from the1930s

    Blackpools day to day trams are new now though. The old stuff is for tourist grabbing


  • #1301
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    School tour: Ostend 1976.


    OSTEND.png

    Fantastic coastal tramway with ancient pre.WW.II. vehicles with wood panelled interiors. They were a big deal for me never having seen a tram of any description before save for photographs. All modernised now and I haven't been back so will retain the memory.

    Is that the line that runs along most of the Belgian coast?


  • Advertisement
  • #1302
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Seamai wrote: »
    Is that the line that runs along most of the Belgian coast?

    Yes


  • #1303
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,823 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Oddly enough I ended up reading all about that line last week after I looked up Ostend on Wikipedia because it was a clue in a crossword I was doing. The answer had nothing to do with trams though :)

    Find shade in tough Ostend area? (5)
    Ghost

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #1304
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEfx5T3G4NQ


  • #1305
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    A poor quality photograph but nonetheless interesting view of Broadstone - currently available on eBay.


    Broadstone%2BMPD.jpg

    ****



  • #1306
    Madelyn Little Mullet
    Posts: 0 ✭ Madelyn Little Mullet


    Electrifying and modernising the 1960s BR rail network.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNQ2jPaaDDY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4maPt3qFI4


  • #1307
    Seanmk1
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭Seanmk1


    One night, when I was on duty in carriage 13...a very drunk and unshaven man in a soiled railway uniform stumbled into my tiny service compartment. He said, stuttering, that he was a ‘mashinist’ (an engine driver).

    “Enjoying your holidays?” I asked him politely, thinking he was one of the passengers in my carriage.

    “Which h-holidays, you fool?!” he shouted. “I am the d-driver of this very train! Let’s have a drink!”

    He then showed me his train driver’s ID and a pocket logbook, which left me in no doubt that he was telling the truth.

    The train kept chugging ahead through the dark at a high speed.

    Before I started to panic, the driver explained that he had left the engine on automatic operation, as there were no scheduled stops for the next 200km. He also tried to calm me down by saying that his young assistant was still in the driver’s cabin, “in case of em-mergency”, although the latter was apparently so drunk that he couldn’t even stand (or sit) upright and was sleeping on the floor after they had celebrated his wife’s birthday together.

    https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/04/after-all-the-soviet-version-of-a-driverless-vodka-train/


  • #1308
    Madelyn Little Mullet
    Posts: 0 ✭ Madelyn Little Mullet


    Interesting streetview from North Wales.

    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3303494,-4.3792147,3a,82.7y,157.02h,52.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRpiAwR7A37pnZ31d5CQvUQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

    Some additional info
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amlwch#Railway


  • #1309
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    A nice item of railwayana (?) on eBay today. Would have bought it back in the day but at £500 it's priced at more than five times its value. Probably on a signpost until quite recently as I recall there was still one pointing to Macmine Junction about 40 years after closure. :D


    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-salvage-Irish-sign-KILFREE-RAILWAY-STATION-CO-SLIGO/284017213803?hash=item4220bec16b:g:0bAAAOSwq9BfQZze


    Kilfree%2BStation.png

    ****



  • #1310
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    YOUGHAL.jpg

    Youghal - early 1970s - from an IRRS Journal. It never ceases to amaze me how local residents failed to see that if nothing else a reopened rail link would have increased property values in the town - I doubt that a massive influx of cyclists will have a similar effect. :rolleyes:

    ****



  • #1311
    Madelyn Little Mullet
    Posts: 0 ✭ Madelyn Little Mullet


    In need of a slight bit of maintenance!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2A2f6E5DI

    I reckon that most of the WRC is in far better condition than this line.


  • Advertisement
  • #1312
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,950 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Madelyn Little Mullet wrote: »
    In need of a slight bit of maintenance!

    I reckon that most of the WRC is in far better condition than this line.

    By and large you'd be right on the money. The US has lots of these private branches that are considered on paper to be sidings but they can be a few miles long and not far from how BNM lines are laid here. Consequently the ganger teams rarely visit them.

    Incidentally, the engines in that video are a GM version of a turbocharged 121/141 class engine but with extra cylinders in the prime mover.


  • #1313
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,838 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    indeed

    https://twitter.com/harmsy/status/1316387371571654657

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #1314
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,415 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh4uhSpsFlg


    Tom Ryan put up a good few videos three weeks ago and they are all amazing time capsules of a era long since gone but this video in particular is brilliant as it’s shows what was knocking around inchicore works in 1979.


  • #1315
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Interesting scrap of early CIE ephemera which sold on eBay tonight. Never heard of this before must have been just a solitary carriage sent over on trial. Sorry for the enormous image - the only way that I can improve the text.


    Silver%2BPricess%2BCIE.jpg

    ****



  • #1316
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Pressed Steel were not a huge builder of carriages - I think they were mainly a DMU vendor, and 1948 is very early for them in that game at all. They were the BMC/Leyland associated car panel stamping company.

    Good luck picking through Google results to find anything as there's a very similarly named US firm!


  • #1317
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭cml387


    L1011 wrote: »
    Good luck picking through Google results to find anything as there's a very similarly named US firm!

    Rising to that challenge:D

    There was a BR class 121 DMU made by Pressed Steel apparently built at Linwood.


  • #1318
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,981 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    cml387 wrote: »
    Rising to that challenge:D

    There was a BR class 121 DMU made by Pressed Steel apparently built at Linwood.




    that's right.
    they were a single car unit rather then a DMU but i believe could work in multiple with themselves or some other classes but i will have to recheck that.
    a couple of examples were in main line traffic up until a few years ago.

    shut down alcohol action ireland now! end MUP today!



  • #1319
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Interesting scrap of early CIE ephemera which sold on eBay tonight. Never heard of this before must have been just a solitary carriage sent over on trial. Sorry for the enormous image - the only way that I can improve the text.


    Silver%2BPricess%2BCIE.jpg

    Never heard of it either.
    No mention of it in Coakham's "Irish broad gauge carriages".
    If it did arrive in Ireland, it should have been reported in journals of the time, but we'll have to wait until libraries open post covid to check them.

    The unidirectional seating in the open saloon is interesting, perhaps it could rotate like in North America, Norway and some of Australia.


  • #1320
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    cml387 wrote: »
    Rising to that challenge:D

    There was a BR class 121 DMU made by Pressed Steel apparently built at Linwood.

    Linwood eventually ended up just stamping Rootes (Hillman, Humber, Singer etc) body panels. There's a brand you don't hear very often anymore!


  • Advertisement
  • #1321
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    L1011 wrote: »
    Linwood eventually ended up just stamping Rootes (Hillman, Humber, Singer etc) body panels. There's a brand you don't hear very often anymore!

    Was the Hillman Imp the last Rootes model built in Linwood?.
    By the 1970s it would be Chrysler and ultimately Peugeot Citroen.


Advertisement