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Irish Rail Drivers Eye DVD €12 each collected in Limerick or +€2 for P&P to Ireland. I will combine postage so if you buy more than one the postage is still €2. I can take payment via paypal The Western Corridor The catalyst for this Driver's eye view was the relaying and reopening of the Western Rail Corridor from Ennis to Galway in 2010, enabling passengers to travel all the way from Waterford in southern Ireland to Galway in the north west with two changes. We travel on these three trains in the drivers' cabs. All three are formed of 2-car 2700 DMUs. Train 1 starts out from Waterford beneath the only elevated signal box still in use in Ireland. We then diverge onto the Limerick Junction branch which takes us over dozens of manually operated level crossings and through stations with traditional block semaphore signalling - a genuine time warp if ever there was one. At Limerick Junction we cross the Dublin to Cork main line on Ireland's only surviving flat crossing before changing ends and reversing into the station. We see inside the following signal boxes: Waterford Central (elevated) Waterford West, Carrick on Suir, Clonmel and Limerick Junction. Make sure you don't miss this train by the way, the next is in six hour's time! Train 2 is the Limerick shuttle, taking us non-stop from Limerick Junction to Limerick City itself. Part of this route is controlled by the Central Traffic Control at Dublin and we take a look inside this as well as seeing Dromkeen manually operated level crossing. Train 3 Our final 2-car 2700 begins at Limerick Colbert station and takes us over the route we have just traversed for just under a mile before beginning a large 180 degree turn towards Ennis. There we join the newly revived Western Corridor signalled from Athlone, the signal centre of which we also visit. At Athenry, we join the Dublin to Galway Intercity main line. Reversing in the platform, we now sprint non-stop to the West Coast terminus at speeds up to 70 miles an hour. Our entire trip from Waterford to Galway is followed by a helicopter, showing us the train and the terrain. Such attractive rural scenery shouldn't be missed, so, unusually, this Driver's eye view runs for over 2½ hours - 'though still at the standard price! Bonus footage: Barrow Bridge, the longest railway bridge in Ireland, filmed during the last months of operation but since closed. Dublin to Sligo 2004 was the penulitmate year of loco haulage on the Intercity route from Dublin to Sligo before route modernisation and the inauguration of DMU traction. Bearing this in mind and the popularity of the Rosslare DEV produced the previous year, Irish Rail invited Video 125 back to record this classic line before the changes took place. Our train of Mk 2 coaches - hauled by class 071 locomotive number 088, starts its journey in one of the terminal platforms at Dublin’s Connolly Station. The line follows the course of the Royal Canal most of the way to Mullingar – the railway having actually purchased the canal before building the line. After leaving the western suburbs of the capital, the line is controlled by time-honoured electric key token block sections and semaphore signalling. Many level crossing gates were still opened and shut by hand. As well as seeing this scenic line from the driver’s cab, there are the usual trackside shots, shots of the drivers at work, shots of the signalmen at work and aerial shots taken from a helicopter accompanying our train all the way to the west coast town of Sligo. Filmed in 2004. Dublin to Cork Intercity diesel loco-hauled expresses are still alive and well in Ireland. Now you can see Ireland's primary route from one such locomotive, a General Motors’ class 201 heading the 10.00 Heuston to Cork. The train is scheduled to cover the 165 miles between the Capital and Ireland’s second city in 2 hours 50 minutes, running at speeds of up to 100 miles an hour and calling at just three intermediate stations en route, Thurles being the first, a distance of 86 miles. At the rear of our train is a streamlined driving trailer - literally the sharp end of investment in new Intercity rolling stock. Ireland’s premier line was built by the Great Southern and Western Railway in stages from 1846 and is of double track throughout. Multiple cameras follow the progress of our train from within the cab, the trackside, stations and even the CTC Central Traffic Control centre at Connolly. Dubliner and TV personality Henry Kelly delivers the historical and contemporary narration. Filmed in 2007

Its very hard to see but is that a Lima 201 enterprise??

For some reason when I saw the tread title I read it as leixlip

It was a derailment after a 2900 hit debris from a landslide near Wicklow Station on 16th of November 2009. The full report and larger pictures are available here http://www.raiu.ie/download/pdf/accident_wicklow.pdf

Wow, this turned into a really great thread with lots of great pictures. Keep them coming lads.

Better looking than a class 70

Most of the older ones around the country are water only and have no means of removing waste water or sewage. These are left over from the days when there were no retention tanks and you only needed to top up the water. Off the top of my head the only places I can think of that have full waste water / sewage removal would be Limerick shed, Cork Shed, Portlaoise depot, Heuston, Connolly platform 1 and Drogheda depot. Am I missing any?

Those look like water / waste water only. The hoses for fuelling tend to be a red hose that is about 3 inches wide. You can see the red fuelling hose in this video of Connolly platform 1. There are also 2 fuelling points on Connolly platform 2 which are of a slightly different design but I can’t seem to find any better pictures online without an engine in the way.

A full report into the incident is available here (Link)

082 Ran away and it the buffers in Portlaoise loop on 29th of September 2011

Well you could hardly expect to go anywhere fast in your lada. Sorry couldn’t resist.

I think the word you are looking for there is bankrupting

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Us modellers really can’t leave anything the way it was when it came out of the box.

love this shot

The north wall to Ballina liner failed on the down line between Kildare and Cherryville junction. They established single line working around the failed train on the up line while a spare engine was sent from Inchicore. The failed train was then hauled to Portarlington where the failed engine was removed.

Freight trains generally comprise of wagons that add up to 36 TEU (Twenty foot equivalent units). Pocket wagons and 62.9 foot bogies are considered 3 TEU, all other bogie freight liners are 2 TEU and 4 wheelers are considered 1 TEU. You could have any combination of the above. My understanding of the pocket wagon brakes is that they are air braked and vacuum piped meaning only the air acts on the brakes and the vacuum is just piped straight through so vacuum stock would always be at the rear of the train.

I believe they were trialling a new type or source of brake blocks.

In the genny

Well at least they didn’t call the fire brigade this time=)). I saw you standing on the end of the platform as we pulled out.

There are two with reddish brown. The Bar 2421 has a reddish brown which is actually a primer and is only on one side. The coach was required for service before full repainting to green could be completed. The second is 1949, (GNRI K31) which is painted in a dark maroon.

well if they are going by user name then they are up to C

Here is the full e-mail for those who are interested. If they are going alphabetically by name then they should be about half way through but it they are going by email then they have only just started.

gorgeous:-bd

I got an e-mail this morning from Fotopic saying that even though they are gone bust I can now get access to my old photos for a limited time to download them. I have done this and stuck them all in a new gallery on my smugmug. I am sure there is some duplication with the pictures I already have up but there are many that I didn’t have on smugmug. So for now I have put 436 photos in this gallery and I will remove the duplicates when I get a chance. http://snail.smugmug.com/Trains/Old-Fotopic-2/26143649_dz9tgm#!i=2173277355&k=MHzkSMN Enjoy snapper.