richrua Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 There was some amount of freight in '93 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riversuir226 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Ah the good auld days, really liked the baby with the three 60ft liner wagons, ideal modelling rake. 3 x hornby freightliners would do the job nicely (could also do the bogies to make it even better) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junctionmad Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 mind you some of those liner trains were very short, most must have been loss making to haul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 (edited) So much variety back then... good times! I came across this video in the links after watching it: Some nice A class action on the ammonias. Love the bridge across the river at Shelton Abbey! Edited April 23, 2015 by Garfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riversuir226 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 (edited) Back then my three favourite places to catch the numerous freight diagrams were limerick junction, Cork kent and gouldings in Waterford.Then again north esk and abbey junction were good spots as well. Waterford was unbelievably busy - lots of liners,cement,fertilisers,grain,beet,guiness. Cork had guiness,cements,liners,ammonias,ferts. After a few hours at limerick junction you d have marked off a lot of loco numbers. Nice link garfield:tumbsup: Edited April 23, 2015 by Riversuir226 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave182 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 My favorite time and that video really covers it all! Used to cycle down to St. Johns Road in the evening time in the early 90s and stand up on a little electrical box that just got me up on to the wall. My vantage point gave me great views over the busy Guinness sidings, and the mouth of the Phoenix park tunnel. All the West bound evening freight would come in a wave from about 7pm onwards, many stopping to have Guinness wagons added at Hueston. Man when I think of all the shunting and train movements back then, and compare to now! Oh crap, just realized I'm officially old! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuby Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 You can really see how major a role the Bell Company played in keeping the IE liner train network in business, huge disaster for IE Railfreight when they went bankrupt. Throw in the closure of Asahi and Nitrogen Eireann and over half the freight on that video has literally disappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Plus the beet..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Derry Road Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Super video footage, those where the days, sadly gone TDR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Interesting how positive the narrator Paul Shannon was about the Irish railfreight scene compared to British Rail. At the time BR was shutting down any freight traffic that did not achieve a certain rate of return, ten years later the situation was more or less reversed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riversuir226 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Nice bit of footage, some nice detail footage of the ammonias which will come in handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnthebox Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 (edited) Great video's, we were renting in Shankill & I use to see the ammonias go by, not forgetting the Bell liners, as said all gone, but would make for a great modelling rake, &. I've got the freightliners to boot, Edited April 25, 2015 by burnthebox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 There was some amount of freight in '93 Liked that very much. Is that a TPO followed by an EGV (or some sort of TPO sorting coach) at 4:24? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railer Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 It's a Mk1 GSV behind the TPO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiretrains Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 (edited) As some have stated already, these films from the early/mid 1990s were recorded by Colm O'Callaghan (it was a bit before my time! ) There are more videos in the pipeline so please subscribe via this link for updates: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Eiretrains There is also a ) There are more videos in the pipeline so please subscribe via this link for updates. https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Eiretrains There is also a [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtPbkXB4No&list=PLFB61F7D68CC79776'>playlist of similar material Edited April 27, 2015 by Eiretrains Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richrua Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 thank you for making these unique slices of the tasty Apple Tart that was Irish rail in the recent past available! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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