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navan. and reopen the line to kingscourt. re open gibstown halt. my grandad has memories of beet trains there. 

21 hours ago, Metrovik said:

Would this be like a BnM Preservation society inaugural meeting? ( That's actually got a nice ring to it....)

count me in if it is indeed a BnM preservation society inaugral meeting 

16 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Lovely photos!

Off topic, but how easy is UAV flying in Ireland? Very restrictive down here, millions of no-fly zones.

Thank you both for sharing.

What's the plan for the two (?) locos and the wagons? Another plant, cutters torch, or what?

UAV flying can be dificult. that day after i filmed those drone shots i was told off for flyaing as aparently it is a no fly zone however i had looked it up and turns out it is not regestered. one of the 2 newer locos may be going to manchester as a lad ted wants to buy it. unfortunatly BNM does not want any history of peat extraction remembered. they have recently removed there history section from there website. BNM are only selling locos for 3000 + at the moment even though for many of the older ones it is way too much. some come up at auction cheeper. as for a railway being preserved in the bog it has been sugested many times however BMN want to simpaly turn the lines into greenways. there is talk of the stone for the greenways being transported by rail. there are also drains evry few days out of edenderry for ash. there are 2 carrages at the now defunct tralee and blenervile railway that could be used on a bog railway though they do need some work done to them. i think there are a few at lullymore as well. cavan and letrim also have a railcar thing for 3 foot as well that does not seem to be in use. 

wagons are most certainly going to the cutters coarch. hundreds have been scraped in Croghan alone in the last few months

I was there the day before. the train derailed just outside the works so it did not get in until the following morning. 

On 26/3/2024 at 10:37 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

Slightly off-topic but the closest match I could find...

Who the Hell has been stalking my profile here on the forum???

 

 

probably when you changed your profile picture. one minioute. super Quin sosages where what people knew. then all of a sudden. who is this lad. 

will it be served by rail again

Just now, Westcorkrailway said:

I hear there allowed to run bonnet first…..won’t that be something

that will be indeed

just thinking how are they going to run her when she is ready. will they doubblehead her with a 141. i know im really getting my hopes up here but might she run with the mark 3 control car curently at Moyasta

13 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I’ll always recomend this thread which has not quite those things, but pretty close

 

(I think if you click on the image it brings to northern blue 109s flickr with some fun and some serious “what ifs” in Ireland and beyond) 

 

 

 

hello. inchacore paint plant. could do this for the 50th anniversary of the locos

this thread is starting to remind me of the Liffey lesider railtour. between Dublin and Dundalk all I could hear in the compartment by the loco for the whole journey was father ted.

if only ms doyle where there to give me a cup of tea afterwords

yesterday was the very last one. it was supposed to stop at the end of 2023 however a small service continued to tun from Belair works. one rake yesterday was the last however. the trackwork was so bad in that area that it derailed at least 5 times yesterday

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I remember seeing some of those in an abandoned station some ware a while ago. if I remember where i will post here

12 hours ago, airfixfan said:

Yes and rail section of the new hub due to open September 2024

jany maher. there i was thinking i had a few more years of GVS.

On 21/3/2024 at 6:50 AM, airfixfan said:

GVS will now close to all rail services from May 10th which is the new confirmed date for a series of work starting with extensive line closures over Easter.

this year?

one of the greatest models I own

you should sell those

thanks

is this open to non IRRS members

On 12/2/2024 at 9:51 PM, Westcorkrailway said:

Cork based railtours are guaranteed sucess (no bias at all ) 

true capital of ireland 

just wondering why so many people hate the 29000s

7 hours ago, skinner75 said:

One thing I could see possibly being an issue is the pathing of extra freight services over the single track section to Tullamore.

Maybe this would be an issue, or maybe not

I know that a lot are doubtful that mass scale progress will happen on our railways as has been the case for many the years but with all this climate change stuff i would not be surprised if things such as double tracking sections to Tullamore are on the horizon. one thing that definitely is in the horizon though is someone saying that this wont happen for 100 years 

9 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said:

Where do the 201, 22000 and CAF fit into this scheme?

a 201 has already been modified. 

19 hours ago, DiveController said:

Given how little freight and passengers are conveyed by Irish Rail I wonder if this would make any significant impact other then to tick some boxes

Not sure why they would bother, given this should already be in place by the Irish government. Have any fossil fuel powered generator station in Ireland been eliminated by green energy from, wind, tide/hydro dare I ask?

edenderry is now run on biomass but that biomass has to come from the other side of the world so its not so environmentally friendly as board na mona say it is.