Eiretrains

The new railcar depot is exactly on top of the old Buckeys sidings. They cleared the site in the early 2000s to make way for the railcar maintenance shed.

125 did run again, but as others have said, it was never the same and ended up withdrawn following a fire. It sat for some years in Inchicore in its faded livery until cut up in the 90s.

I think the driver had to be cut out from the cab. It was remarked that the sturdiness of the GM designed cab contributed to his miraculous escape, similarly to when a driver crawled out from the cab of B132 after it had flipped on its side in the Clough accident.

Nice view of the BR container and wagons, albeit smashed.

Edit: Some nice photos of 055 moving into Hell's Kitchen

http://historical.glynnsphotography.com/p466106870

They look very neat. Although I'm not an electric traction enthusiast, I'm beginning to think a 2-car (unpowered) set of one of those behind a 141 would make for a nice 'DART transfer' style train.

http://www.geograph.ie/photo/3255092

Some nice photos on that page, the one of A23r passing an 'old' Monasterevin being very interesting.

Seriously tempted to get 113 but apart from the Enterprise, has this been used on any other services with Irish Rail?

In the early 2000s (2003 or so) it worked a Tullamore cement, and a trip working in the Dublin area, so it wouldn't be totally out of place on IE metals.

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Was always adamant I had seen that image of 086, good to get the solid facts behind when it was running with that livery, know now it got the proper IR treatment by Sept of 1990, be interesting to see now who will be the first to tweak an 071 model into it!

Nice other shot here

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That nice photo of O'Dea's really shows that as well as a gricer, he was a nuts and bolts photographer, going in to document the seldom photographed disused stations.

With the release of the 071 models, this topic crossed my mind recently, and quick google search reveals the photograph I was referring to above, showing 071 Class 086 in the Supertrain livery with the IR points logos applied, passing Inchicore in April 1990.

It's the only image I know of it which depicts such a livery combination on an 071 locomotive, I suspect 086 may have been like this for a short time.

Thanks lads,it's great to have the 071s and the BELL containers

Just like the model, some 071+BELL movements recently uploaded by this chap (original was on blip.tv).

It's just photo-shop, it's actually unit 8089 during the MRSI trip in 2008, there's a spate of these images online a few years back in fotopic days which had 8113 in all sorts of liveries!

With the AECs, it's more case that the valance was added than removed. You'll notice the buffers as well, originally they had normal sized ones as delivered (like the GNR sets) but CIE butchered them to fit those larger and unsightly types, think it was so they could match up when coupled to hauled stock. The valance appeared in the early 70s, but the buffers had been done from the early 60s onwards.

That AEC railcar in Mullingar is one of the ex GNR vehicles, it's in the early 1970s NIR maroon and grey livery, you can see the NIR logo on its side. I think some of these ended up in Mullingar, being the only suitable site to dispose of them after NIR were pulled up for dumping similar asbestos ridden railcars and stock into Crumlin Quarry in Co.Antrim, as well being handy for CIE to re-use parts in their ageing AEC fleet.

It's one of Aubrey Dale's (aka Albert Bridge) photographs on his geograph profile. Taken at Carrolls Cross when a number locals stopped the IRRS tour(!) in protest of the closure of the line with the demise of the Quigley magnesite plant at Dungarvan. Do post the original link which contains more info and author's name.

http://www.geograph.ie/photo/3093924

As garfield says they were never 'changed' and simply depends on the locomotive, with white/black being done in no particular order. A quick glance reveals 071, 075 and 082 have white numerals for example, were as the rest are black.

What is the difference between cie original and super train livery?

From this post onwards and elsewhere, it's a hot topic!

Sometimes a direct link won't load the map, but otherwise it works, if you can't get it to show simply navigate manually to where you want it using the 'pan' and 'zoom' options.

Anybody know what name she had? All the a class were unofficially named and were written on the inside of the cab. Does anybody have the complete list?

According to a thread on IRN which lists most of the A Class names, 055 was Sarcastic Sarah?

A pic from the 'Good old days' late 80s - when trains were trains and when even demu's had character and sound. 80 class on loan to Irish Rail from NIR pictured at Rathdrum while running a Bray to Arklow and return service.

A Jonathan M.Allen photo, who has many more on his geograph profile.

Interesting shot, this. Is it a mixed train, or is the Cravens coach just in the consist as part of a shunt move? I presume there's a genny van behind the coach if it's part of a service train...

It's just the carriage to accommodate an IRRS party over the Burma Rd, 15th June 1968, as was done on several occasions by sticking a carriage onto a regular goods!

Well I'm telling you lads, I'm sure one definitely did as I've seen the photograph myself, if the link still existed I'd post it, but I'm not one saving photos offline sorry!

On 121s, locomotive 121 got the new logo but no white stripes till later, I suspect may have been others, I imagine they were quick jobs to slap the new logo on when convenient.

On one of the many fotopics sites there was a photo of an 071 passing Inchicore, still in the Supertrain livery but with the new 'IR' logo. I thought it was interesting as photos of 071s with that livery/logo combination seem uncommon, unlike the 141/181s which some sported for quite some years. - can't remember which 071 it was sorry!

A few I have from a chap who collects this sort of stuff... Hover over the image for date and place.

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That's A44 at the Sligo end of Kilfree junction, June 1956, an awful smash indeed, details can be found in Dan Rehenan's extensive article on CIE's Crossleys (IRRS journals No.90 and No.91);

"Shortly after 06.00 on 15 June 1956 No. A44, working the 22.10 goods from North Wall to Sligo, was diverted

into a siding at Kilfree Junction, and crashed violently into the buffer-block. The locomotive and 12 wagons

were wrecked, the loco having sheared off her bogies was triple-somersaulted down a 25ft embankment;

remarkably, the driver Conlon had a miraculous escape, with only minor injuries. Wreckage blocked the line

until the morning of the 16th."

They aren't repeats, it's his new/current series, so worth checking out, you might learn something new

Was that not one of the A class. The loco was more or less hijacked. The driver was removed and a bomb was planted in the cab while the loco was let run unmanned on the Northern line till it exploded. Think it was 016. Or is that another story?

It was 004, which in 1979 was hijacked near the border and then sent on its way driver-less, eventually derailing and falling on its side at Goraghwood. NIR actually installed a short-lived loop at Goraghwood to allow runaways to be derailed.

008 and 046 were other A Class casualties as Eamonn pointed to, bombed near the border at Meigh in 1973/79 respectively.

121 Class 125 ran away(I think) at Roscommon in the 1970s, running into the headshunt and falling into an adjacent river, it was repaired but 125 was never the same again and ended her career early in 1986.

Much of the above details can be found in the ITG's Irish Traction & Travel books.

Worth mentioning the Harcourt St runaway also, nearly 112 years ago this month.

All photos posted above can be found on Tom Ryan's Flickr site.

Would you have any photos of them working those trains on that stretch of line in that great collection for yours

I'm afraid not, too young to be around in those days(!), the lack of photos though might suggest the workings were not frequent.