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Probably the last time that piece of track beside the bogie shop will be used... Was a lucky find on youtube, think I was the first view

Nice video by NI museums about moving 113 to Cultra

The answer is 18!! thanks to all who have contributed to this.. The load is about 450 tonnes per train plus the tare weight..

Ballina had two platforms till the 70's when one was demolished for the freight yard..

Thanks to all who have responded to this.. if you can check in Waterford that would be great riversuir. I think what you were saying Anto is part of the problem, I don't think IE do weigh their wagons but rather it is done using the trucks used for transhipment. Thanks for that Dave, good article I've read before, written by one of my lecturers co-incidentally. For a rough weight to volume calculation, I know that in 2012 60000 tonnes were moved by Irish Rail and the volume was 69000m3, so each metre cubed is about 1.15tonnes, obviously this is only an average with the mass changing by season due to weather/moisture content as Anto said.. Based on 160 train loads that's only about 375 to 400 tonnes per train though.. plus 300 tonnes of wagons so trailing weight is 675 to 700 tonnes. The max allowed is 780 tonnes when hauled by a 071 or 201, except DFDS liners can have 830 tonnes trailing.(according to the WTT, but you didn't hear it here).

Thanks Anto, Each timber wagon has a capacity of 38 tonnes and a GVW of 63 tonnes. So based on tonnage the equivalent would be 16-17 trucks. My problem is that I think round timber like the type Irish Rail haul for Coillte would be a volume sensitive product so when loading you would Cube out before Maxing out, with volume being the critical consideration. So assuming identical width and loading height of road and rail timber equipment,which might be a big assumption, then length would be the only difference in volume capacity. Based on length of loading areas I think it works out at about 13-14 trucks per train. Like you said it takes a bit of a guess really. Unfortunately I cant use guesswork for academic work:(

Does anybody know roughly how many lorry loads of timber it takes to load a 12 wagon timber train? I am trying to figure out what a good ratio of trucks to wagons would be so I can calculate how many lorry miles Coillte saves a year by using rail.. Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Might you be refering to The Donelli gantries Dave?

Hi wanderer, in your november album there are pictures of limerick-portlaoise wagon trials. Just wondering if you knew the reason for these?

They're not cleared to operate over routes with manual points as they distance between bogies is longer than the moving part of points and if hypothectically the points were operated while a CPW was passing over it, the front bogie would go one way and the rear one the other. When CTC operation came in it was considered this can no longer happen presumably because of the points being locked when a train is in the section. IMO it doesn't make sense to use the pockets Ballina-Waterford as this line is cleared for high cubes on flat wagons of which there must be some available. I think we may see them used elsewhere, possibly on their old stamping ground Dublin-Cork.

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20B/Barrack%20Street/slides/Barrack%20Street_20100116_0001_CC.html used from the brewery in dundalk also..

Isn't it terrible we the lack of RTR irish locos means we have to use badly resprayed british stock...................oh wait, its not 1980 anymore:)

Which is similar to the standard on the navan line.. Perfect, we're in business for €10m, which depreciated over 10 years is €1 million per annum or about €2 per tonne.

9 to 10 million according to one former Irish Rail manager, bridges and all..

Line from Glasnevin Junction to Connolly(via Drumcondra) closed for bridge works in north strand. A set of buffer stops has been placed on the line in Glasnevin

Any ideas who he customer might have been Mayner? The mill in ballysadore maybe?

Sperry train passed through Drumcondra at 13.48 yesterday heading for north wall

Could try http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal. Has a good range of pictures of containers of all shapes and sizes.. 30ft Bulktainer http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/belu0035974.jpg http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/belu0036266.jpg standard 40ft http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part1/images/belu4285441.jpg Not bells but the containers used for ore and grain in the 90s http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part2/images/opentops/amfu2951450.jpg

TPWS is the signalling equipment used on NIR, nothing to do with push-pull.. Although does mean 209 will hopefully be returning to more regular use on her home patch..

It would be heated to reduce its viscosity and then pumped through pipework into the terminal.. Not sure if the IE wagons had electric heat or burners though. Also the tanks were insulated so would retain some of the heat..

Found this on youtube, has the jumbos on the back of a liner.. Can't make it out but the first tar wagon has something written in the bottom left corner. It nearly look like the BRT logo from the UK, anyone know what it says??

Looks more like a wooden bodied open wagon? Anyone know why there's a white BELL container, a reefer maybe??

Yeah there pretty common, if you look at videos of the DFDS a lot of them carried 30ft UBC/IBC bulktainers which as best I can find out carried asbestos mixed with peat from the former Asahi plant in Ballina.

The 40ft beet containers had an extra door to the side of the wagon and the Iso container end doors were kept closed. To discharge the side door was opened and the water carried the beet out the side same as with the two wheelers. If I was unloading the Grain I would make it either end tipped (end doors open and lift container up) with a special road trailer or else unloaded using a grab but not sure which was used. To load in Waterford the wagons were put under chutes and the grain dropped in. There's a picture of the set up in the feb 2004 IRRS journal. While Dublin and Foynes both seem to have involved a road shunt. In the uk and europe their special grain wagons had doors on the bottom like the HOBS and the grain was tipped into a pit between the tracks and then carried out and up using an auger system.

Would Bell bulk not have used 30ft bulktainers with roof hatches? Seem to be more popular for bulky loads.