228RiverOwenboy

On 7/4/2024 at 4:35 PM, jhb171achill said:

If the thing ever takes to the rails they’ll have to pair it with some other loco. Possibly an 071 these days…..?

I'd imagine something like that, didn't the 121s have a bit of a struggle when pulling 6 Mark 3 Suburbans by themselves (as in one loco)?

On 30/3/2024 at 10:16 AM, Branchline121 said:

So anybody got news about B134? It's been almost 2 years since she was unveiled...

Had a visit at Inchicore pretty recently. Her cab interior hasn't been fully sorted from what I saw inside, the electrical stuff still needs finishing. So I suppose, cosmetically speaking, she's complete, but mechanically? Most likely not.

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone could provide a list of what 121 and 141 Class locomotives were fitted with the EMD 8-645E and ones that retained their EMD 8-567CR up until withdrawal/scrapping?

15 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

So, @228RiverOwenboy, any further comments from that Tik Tok guy?

Nothing of it so far. I'm not too surprised!

7 hours ago, IrishTrainScenes said:

The most irritating thing happened today, was filming the 1035 ex Belfast Enterprise at Finaghy, when a 3 piece C3K on an express to Great Victoria Street passed me just as the Enterprise was.

The result, bowled by a C3K

"HOW DARE THAT C3K RUIN MY PROFESSIONAL VIDEOGRAPHY!!!"

A bit of wibbling I see

Some news on 162... This photo was taken on the 21st of November at Inchicore. At the time she was paired with 086 and 3185TL (the latter being owned by the RPSI). Most definitely due for scrap very soon.

(Credit: Own work)

15 hours ago, Thomas Nolan said:

4 141s currently in Inchicore. 

147, 162, 171 and 177 are still around, though recently I've seen 162 in a dire state. There's a red "X" on the side of her cab, so I can only assume she's up for scrap very soon. 144 was scrapped in March 2022, so there's four 141s left at Inchicore.

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

So, is it true? I looked at the video on Tik Tok but it shows 073 in orange and black livery, not grey.

I'd have expected one of the forum's 071 class titans like @ttc0169, @MOGUL or @Rob to have let us know!

Screenshots from video:

 

 

The person who posted the video replied to a comment asking where he got this info regarding 073, and he simply replied with "worker", I'm slightly doubting this since 073 wasn't due for any repaints as far as I know...

Someone's after saying that 073 has been reverted back to the typical IE dark grey...

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe2mpqbL/

10 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

What's the status of the 201 fleet these days?

There were ten (?) in storage according to earlier posts in this thread.

One of the in-service locos (224?) suffered a cracked frame, but also sure that one of the mothballed ones (230?) was brought back into service?

Stored as of October 2018 according to @Railer's photo and @ttc0169's photo:

201

202

203

205

210

212

214

Wikipedia also lists the following as being stored:

204

211

213

Basically the non-push-pull-equipped locos, 201 - 205 and 210-214.

Wikipedia also states that 230 has been in storage since July 2017:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE_201_Class

 

201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 224 and 230 are the mothballed 201s as of now. The orange 201s (201-205 and 210-214) aka the non-push/pull 201s were withdrawn around 2009, with 214 "River Brosna" being the last non-push/pull 201 to come out of service in July of that year.

230 "River Bandon" caught fire on the 6th of June 2013 while it was hauling an Enterprise set. It was put into storage shortly afterwards and hasn't seen any usage, though in July 2017 it got partially rebuilt using 211 "River Suck" as the donor (apparently), but nothing of it has been done since.
 
224 "River Feale" was stopped and stored after a structural failure had happened while hauling the 14:25 hr Cork Kent to Dublin Heuston service. It experienced a coolant leak and electrical fault that caused the locomotive to shut down while approaching Limerick Junction and its midsection began to sag downwards. 224 was deemed a failure and towed to Inchicore, where it currently remains. The RAIU report concluded that an unnecessary weld repair was applied to a structural chassis plate, which in turn resulted in the underframe eventually failing.

225 "River Deel" was stored in September of 2010 after having a fatal collision with a tractor in Roscommon while hauling a container train on the 09:30 hrs freight service from Ballina to North Wall. Fortunately, 225 was overhauled and reinstated, Returning to freight service on the 24th of October 2019 and passenger service on the 8th of November 2019.

Both RAIU reports of the incidents of 224 and 225 are linked below:
https://www.raiu.ie/investigations/chassis-plate-fracture-on-general-motors-class-201-locomotiv/1625134352168400/ (224)

https://www.raiu.ie/investigations/road-vehicle-struck-at-level-crossing-xm096-county/1542278790784806358/ (225)

7 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

225 was out of action for almost a decade after hitting that tractor on the level crossing?

Was the damage that bad or was it more because there was a fatality involved?

On the 2nd of September, 2010 - 225 "River Deel" was involved in a fatal collision at level crossing XM096, County Roscommon. According to the RAIU report (link below), the tractor may have stalled and remained in the middle of the crossing. 225 appears to have had some damage as a result of the incident. The damage to the loco can be seen in the image below.

https://www.raiu.ie/investigations/road-vehicle-struck-at-level-crossing-xm096-county/1542278790784806358/

6 hours ago, MOGUL said:

Yes, it took most of a decade to repair 225.. 216 was similar, I think was out from 2010 to 2016.. But they obviously weren't being actively repaired for most of that time!

 

...Not sure when this photo was taken, but here's a photo of when 216 was stored at the Inchicore Works... I wonder if she would've ended up like the other mothballed 201s if the Belmond train never happened!

I wonder how 134's getting on...

On 14/6/2023 at 8:39 AM, ttc0169 said:

 

I just noticed something... Is this the same water tank that was from the West Clare Railway in Moyasta?

On 14/9/2023 at 7:12 PM, Darrman said:

I can't help but note Kishogue is mentioned for a 2024 opening: will it happen?

Was there not a few sources stating that Kishogue is due to open in December 2023? The tender for it said somewhere in November of this year, from what I can recall...

Does anyone know where it's currently located? Or would anybody have a photo of it's current resting place? I can't find anything about 7161, yet some have told me that it's already been moved and situated at Newcastle West on static display.

Hi lads,

With the pocket wagons now making a return and being refurbished, would anyone have any information on these particular wagons? When they were built/introduced, withdrawn and so on. I saw 086 with pocket wagons this morning, to which they're being transferred to Limerick to be refurbished as far as I know, with a few past that process already. Are these wagons being brought straight back into services, or are they returning on a later date?

12 hours ago, Mayner said:

I believe there's one of these at the Sligo Folk Park...

9 hours ago, Mayner said:

CIE dose not appear to have had a type "name" for the coaches introduced in the early 1950s.

Officially coaches would have been referred to by their purpose and running nos. for example Buffet Car 2406-

 Early CIE stock was similar in design and construction to the pre-war Harty/Bredin coaches, basically aluminium paneling (Harty/Bredin steel) on timber framing on riveted/later welded steel framing on GSR style bogies. CIE introduced new types including 64 seat open coaches, buffet cars, and brake end coaches, the original CIE coaches introduced 1950 were 60" same length as Harty/Bredin, coaches CIE standardised on 61'6" as a body length from 1951 and coaches built from 1953 onwards including the Dunsandle coach ran on Bullied Triangulated underframe with Commonwealth bogies similar to the later Park Royal and Laminate stock.

They look fairly similar to the laminates numbered 2419-2422 (With 2422 and 2421 being preserved as fair as I know).

Credit: Dawgz  (Wikipedia)

8 minutes ago, Niles said:

Neither actually... it's one of the early 1950s builds that came after the GSRs* but before the laminates. 

*(I'll refrain from calling them Bredins as technically they were a Harty design  ).

Oh, I see. Did that particular type of coach have a name?

Hi lads, just wondering, is the coach (numbered 1633) located at Dunsandle a GSR Bredin or CIE Laminate?

On 2/12/2015 at 1:50 AM, jhb171achill said:

 

 

 

Woohoo! Right way up. Now I'll add more.

 

 

 

 

Any chance that you would have a full pic of the diagram? Or is it too big for the camera to shoot?

5 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Yes, 186 is correct - in fact, the shade of grey was correctly colour matched at the time and confirmed accurate by several ex-GSR men then still living. The 461 black livery was incorrect in detail - while that loco seems to have been very briefly black in the very late 50s, it was always plain grey after the DSER became part of the GSR and CIE. On the RPSI's 461, the yellow "flying snail" was wrong - no steam engine ever carried anything but the standard pale green "snail", lined gold - in other words, the same transfers as on the sides of carriages and buses!

So it would be this...

With the gold outline like this?

Apologies for the many questions, I'm just hoping to not mess up the livery or logo on my 500 model 

On 13/4/2023 at 10:54 PM, jhb171achill said:

 

Prior to 1945 thyey were plain grey all over, with cast number plates (grey too!). They would never have been black.

So I assume they would/wouldn't have had a livery like the RPSI's 186 (battleship grey) or their 461 when she was in all black with yellow numbering and CIE logo on the tender?

On 15/5/2023 at 8:28 AM, GSR 800 said:

Run up to Cultra and hook up a compressor to Maedb's whistle

I feel like it'd sound something like one of the LMS locos (i.e Black 5s, rebuilt Royal Scots, Jubilee etc). Would be really fitting for it to have something like that, a deep whistle for a mighty locomotive!

Fantastic work so far, fair play to all involved!