jhb171achill Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Thought I'd put a few updates here. The railway has announced this morning that once remedial work is finished on O & K No. 3 (which is currently at Whitehead for the purpose), it will be tested between there and Carrickfergus on a public excursion with three RPSI Mk 2 carriages. This will be its first ever main line passenger run, and it's first visit on any main line since it left the sugar factory for Dublin about 1961. Exact date will be announced once work nears completion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Fantastic news, JB. Could this be the first time ever that an industrial steam loco has been used on a mainline excursion anywhere on these islands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Possibly, Garfield - unsure of possible British equivalents.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Fantastic news, JB. Could this be the first time ever that an industrial steam loco has been used on a mainline excursion anywhere on these islands? I think you've been had... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 I think you've been had... I'll mull over it for half an hour, Warbonnet.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 I think you've been had... Oh no I haven't... sure I already saw over on Facebook that No. 1 is being cut up, so she'll be needed back at Downpatrick ASAP. No time for mainline shenanigans at all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeconna Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 when do the tickets go on sale? and of course some test runs to carryout as well so loads of photos. Loads of action for the lad up the top of the country then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Oh no I haven't... sure I already saw over on Facebook that No. 1 is being cut up, so she'll be needed back at Downpatrick ASAP. No time for mainline shenanigans at all... haha I'm just waiting for E421's next speed record attempt down the Cork line! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRENNEIRE Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 What date is today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 What date is today? March 32nd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Idiots! April Fool's Day was yesterday. This is a Leap Year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 March 32nd. Its after 12 on the 34th Septober. The story about No. 3 on the Larne line was a spoof. It's actually going for trials on the Isle of Man Railway instead after temporary regauging.... And the cutting up of No. 1 was a spoof as well. It's actually A39, C231 and 146 that are being cut up; the resultant scrap metal will fund a new casino at Inch Abbey, the profits of which will be used to build a new-build replica of A39, which will be painted in an entirely wrong shade of GSR maroon.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Its after 12 on the 34th Septober. The story about No. 3 on the Larne line was a spoof. It's actually going for trials on the Isle of Man Railway instead after temporary regauging.... And the cutting up of No. 1 was a spoof as well. It's actually A39, C231 and 146 that are being cut up; the resultant scrap metal will fund a new casino at Inch Abbey, the profits of which will be used to build a new-build replica of A39, which will be painted in an entirely wrong shade of GSR maroon.... I heard that they are rebuilding A39 upside down, to make work on the bogies easier, before turning it over for the first test runs - and so that the pictures of the progress will appear on here the right way up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Tis correct, Broithe. It will also mean that those being trained to drive it can use my photos as references. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Before they turn it over, they're doing the initial test on the 5'3" track in Victoria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 (edited) Meabh has been removed from Cultra, to help haul the MK4s Merlin is going to haul the refurbished enterprise. The turfburner, is being rebuilt, after The directors of IE were given good good shouting at by the ghost of Bullied, to work the Tara mines! The 071s are to be reduced to minimal duties, after IE announced that 20 new J15s were to be built. Edited April 1, 2016 by GSR 800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 And there's ICRs on the Schull & Skib. From tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 The Achill line is to be reopened, worked by 29000 class... A line between Belfast and Baltimore is opening on the 30th February next year. NIR is considering buying a new batch of AEC and BUT railcars,with IE, to run the line. 5 new Beyer Garrets are being built for the tough gradients of the T&D,with the cattle specials,for the fair of dingle next month. 50 new "standard" 2-6-0 locomotives are being built, to take over services from the ICRs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 For a moment I thought this was the 'What if' thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 For a moment I thought this was the 'What if' thread... Gets a bit worrying when you realise your fooling yourself... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 (edited) Possion d'Avril ceased at 11:00am UT but what the heck: 22k's to be reallocated for motorway use from 2017, seats to be improved with softer concrete padding and Fisher Price logos to be replaced by Bus Eireann logos. 800 to be moved to a new museum in ROI and shrunk to 7mm scale Food to be served once again on main line rail services for first time since 1990s Luas track bed to be made available for go-kart racing at weekends when the services are on permanent weekend strike 201 class to be re-engined with more powerful 6000hp motors to cope with Ireland's anticipated obesity crisis in the future. Seating on Mk5 sets will be one seat on each side of the isle, and track ballast to be made 10 inches deeper. 2600 class banned by EU H&S watchdog for fear of future 'army deafness' style litigation. Orthopaedic hospital beds in ROI to be reduced by 25% within 5 years of withdrawal. NIR to re-gauge all track to 4ft 8.5in gauge within 6 months of England, Wales and NI leaving the EU. Independent Scotland to re-gauge to 5ft 3in broad gauge in an effort to stop English trains crossing the EU border into Scotland. Irish Sea rail tunnel to be abandoned Dublin Airport to get electric bike cycleway link to city centre with charging points in each constituency on route. Murphy Models announce model of 2016 class high speed rail train used on Dublin to Mallow route. Edited April 1, 2016 by Noel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 NIR to re-gauge all track to 4ft 8.5in gauge within 6 months of England, Wales and NI leaving the EU. Independent Scotland to re-gauge to 5ft 3in broad gauge in an effort to stop English trains crossing the EU border into Scotland. In preparation, dual gauge changeover track is already fitted on the Boyne Viaduct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 IE awoke the ghost of Watson, to design and build a new batch of 400s,to help the Meabh and the Maglevs on the Cork line, but they then found out why they were rebuilt, so then awoke Bazin too, who built the 500s again as well. IE then realise the futility of diesels, and approach John Beaumont for drawings. He agrees, but only on the term that he can blow up a bunch of 22000s and then take pictures of the wreckage, with his Australian camera:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Upon privatisation of all of NIR, IE, Bus Eireann and Ulsterbus, all four entities along with GoBe and Aircoach are taken over by the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway Company, after it found that a legal loophole means it was never would up at all last year. All journey times to be quadrupled in order to save fuel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Some 29000s were vandalised on the Achill line last night, with the words"bring back the D16s!" Crudely spray painted. Makeshift fortifications have been made by the vandals, who had rifles, old Lima coaches labelled"to throw" and multiple empty oil barrels. After complaints from the trade unions, 5 D16s were built, along with multiple 6 wheelers. The fortifications soon disappeared. CIE dark green and blackntan has been brought back. The 141s have been rebuilt, and two were given to NIR,to assist the remaining Hunslet. The new "standard locomotives" have proved very successful, and are to be scrapped next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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