Double headed 141/201

[K801]

I seen quiet a few times in old CIE youtube IRRS videos what appears to be a 141 and a 201 hauling a train in multiple, especially on the Dungarvan line.

Was this a practice when two 121s or two 141s wasn't available??

[Westcorkrailway]

I suspect that means the C class failed the 141 is hauling it dead…..

[K801]

11 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I suspect that means the C class failed the 141 is hauling it dead…..

I agree but I have seen at least 4 different videos with 201/141 or 141/201s combinations, maybe thats a hilly line

[Mayner]

I think the video of the B141 and C Class may have been on a late running Waterford-Mallow goods with the C Class later returning on a Dungarvan-Waterford goods while the B141 continued to Mallow.

During the final years of operation goods traffic over the Waterford-Mallow line goods traffic was heaviest between Waterford and Dungarvan and Fermoy and Mallow.

B121 and B141s appear to have been the regular motive power for the once daily goods which worked over entire length of the line the Waterford and Mallow bound trains appear to have crossed at Cappaquin.  Dungarvan was also served by an out and back Trip Working or 'Turn' from Waterford possibly worked by a C Class.

Its possible the C may have been double heading with the B141 on a Waterford-Mallow goods as there may have been insufficient traffic to justify running a separate Waterford-Dungarvan trip or it may have been more convenient to doublehead the train.

It would have been necessary to 'double head' with a driver in both locos or haul the second loco dead as a B141 & C201 were incapable of working in multiple until C233&234 were rebuilt with Maybach engines and re-classified and re-classified as B Class in the mid-1960s.

For  most of the 1960s the B121 Class were incapable of working a train in multiple with another loco.