MK3 Scrapping

[Killucan2]

Looks like time has arrived for the mk3's @14 in inchoire for the chop and Waterford where a large breaking machine arrived in yesterday morning.

 

M.

Edited June 17, 2013 by Killucan2

[jhb171achill]

It would be better to refurbish them and dump the De Dietrichs!!!

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

It would be better to refurbish them and dump the De Dietrichs!!!

 

Agreed the De Dietrichs are very uncomfortable in comparison

[Warbonnet]

Agreed the De Dietrichs are very uncomfortable in comparison

 

The Cork stock is the worst of all. I prefer the ICRs to them!

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

The Cork stock is the worst of all. I prefer the ICRs to them!

 

 

I haven't been on the Cork stock yet Fran. When you get a day off we could maybe rectify that

Might be a bad idea for the two of us to sit in the bar the whole way there and back as it could become a big challenge to make it to the end of the platform upon return to Dublin

[Warbonnet]

I haven't been on the Cork stock yet Fran. When you get a day off we could maybe rectify that

Might be a bad idea for the two of us to sit in the bar the whole way there and back as it could become a big challenge to make it to the end of the platform upon return to Dublin

 

Ha, yep maybe next couple of weeks hit Kildare/Portarlington. Need to hunt down a grey 071 finally....

[Warbonnet]

The other interesting question is are the Mark IIIs stored in Dundalk going to be scrapped on site or moved to somewhere like North Wall or Inchicore? Would be good to see them roll behind an 071 or 201 one last time....

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

The other interesting question is are the Mark IIIs stored in Dundalk going to be scrapped on site or moved to somewhere like North Wall or Inchicore? Would be good to see them roll behind an 071 or 201 one last time....

 

 

I don't think there is any room to scrap them in Dundalk I may be wrong

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Ha, yep maybe next couple of weeks hit Kildare/Portarlington. Need to hunt down a grey 071 finally....

 

I just hope we pick a good day for it. Do you know Fran can we get a ticket like a rambler that we can just jump on and off trains all day long.

[Killucan2]

I say the mk3 in Dundalk will be scrapped down where the fright yard is,the first to go in inchoire wil be 6101 as its in ***** no Windows, may be a few darts and 27s on the slie as well?

 

M.

[Warbonnet]

I just hope we pick a good day for it. Do you know Fran can we get a ticket like a rambler that we can just jump on and off trains all day long.

 

I'm not sure tbh. Anyone any ideas?

[Riversuir226]

I'm not sure tbh. Anyone any ideas?

 

Now that is a minefield, i don t think you can get a day pass outside of the big smoke, there is a four day one €110 but noticed there is a gathering 3 day unlimited travel for €99.

[Broithe]

I can only find the Trekker Four Day Ticket - http://www.irishrail.ie/faresandtickets - and the special gathering ticket..

[ttc0169]

It's a shame that the IE Mk3 fleet will be scrapped,

I travelled from Norwich to London on Sunday evening in a Mk3 coach behind 90011 and what a run to Liverpool street station with 110 mph operation being reached on several occasions,

I think IE should have refurbished the Mk3 fleet to get at least another 20 years out of them-no comment needed about Mk4s or ICRs....

 

 

A classic coach

 

 

 

First class-reminded me of the Citygold coaches.

 

 

 

90011 at the blocks at Liverpool street station after a superb run from Norwich with a classic train in tow.

[Killucan2]

Them mk3s you where on TT are getting a C5 overhaul to make them last another 10-15 years,the only concern they have is with the class 90s there's talk of a new class 93 to run with the mk3s!!

 

M.

[jhb171achill]

There is clearly no truth in the oft-trotted-out official line here that the Irish Mk 3's were clapped out.... They would be FAR better (refurbished, of course) with well-maintained 201s and possibly PP working, than the "flying frogs" on the Cork line and the DD's on the Belfast line.

[BosKonay]

Hear Hear!

 

It's a crying shame they decided to replace comfortable, world class coaches with plastic boxes for no apparent reason other than spending money at the time.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

any update on the scrapping?

[Riversuir226]

any update on the scrapping?

 

The Waterford ones are all still there, excavator on the truck has moved to outside the gate.

[purple]

Government wasting money again. Perfectly usable stock being ripped up - should have been refurbished. No logic at all as usual.

[Guest hidden-agenda]

Im surprised they have not been cut up by now they have lay about for long enough compared to the mk2s.

[Warbonnet]

Im surprised they have not been cut up by now they have lay about for long enough compared to the mk2s.

 

They were doing their best to flog them off to DB Regio but to no avail.

[heirflick]

lads, is there any going to be preserved? there was talk of a few plus a jenny going to Moyasta a while back...any update?

[BosKonay]

They might look modern now, but in 20 years they'd be a stunning preserved rake... behind an 071 perhaps!

[RedRich]

They might look modern now, but in 20 years they'd be a stunning preserved rake... behind an 071 perhaps!

 

I agree Stephen, an 071 in Black and Tan (even though they never carried that Livery) and the coaches in the same livery as the original Cravens, mouth watering.

 

Rich,

[Blu Bianco]

Always preferred the MK2's over the MK3's but the MK3's were great all the same and very comfortable. The MK4 things just don't compare.

 

Its endemic, in the wider scale, of this country's incessant wastage, greed and failure. People will always say progress has to be made and the old must go out for the new but when the new is this much inferior, and costly, then I think this is far much more than rose-tinged nostalgia.

[irishrail201]

lads, is there any going to be preserved? there was talk of a few plus a jenny going to Moyasta a while back...any update?

 

 

Was it not the push pull MK3 to work with 124??

[Warbonnet]

According to this month's Rail Express magazine one of the Mark III Executive Coaches has been used for test painting a number of schemes including two tone green on one side and one shade of green on the other with the bogies picked out in grey and the doors in white or silver. Sounds a mess but I wonder what the schemes will be used for? Cork stock? Enterprise?

[Glenderg]

Wha? Irish mk3's are back in action, and possibly with a "green" livery, enough to give JHB indigestion? more info ...

[Garfield]

Wha? Irish mk3's are back in action, and possibly with a "green" livery, enough to give JHB indigestion? more info ...

 

Doubt that, Richie... I'd say it'll be used to test out new livery varations and then put back on the scrapline.

[josefstadt]

The word on the street (or should be the tracks) is that the test was for a new livery for the 29000s.

[Glenderg]

Doubt that, Richie... I'd say it'll be used to test out new livery varations and then put back on the scrapline.

 

That's just toying with us. Would have thought its cheaper and easier to do some graphic design and photoshop than crack out the sheets of masking roll and paintbrushes. Me smells a big mouse here.

[Garfield]

That's just toying with us. Would have thought its cheaper and easier to do some graphic design and photoshop than crack out the sheets of masking roll and paintbrushes. Me smells a big mouse here.

 

You should drop them a line and offer them your services!

 

They did this before back in the '90s when they painted an A class in a variation of the livery the 201s first carried...

[Warbonnet]

The word on the street (or should be the tracks) is that the test was for a new livery for the 29000s.

 

Interesting. A pic of the Mark III in question would be cool, hopefully one will end up online.

[Glenderg]

Interesting. A pic of the Mark III in question would be cool, hopefully one will end up online.

 

A mark 3 in 29k livery? Not even broithe has a jpg for this one. And no. I'm not photosphopping one.