Freight in 93

[richrua]

There was some amount of freight in '93

 

[Riversuir226]

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)

[Junctionmad]

mind you some of those liner trains were very short, most must have been loss making to haul.

[Garfield]

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

[Riversuir226]

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

[dave182]

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! :-)

[tuby]

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.

[jhb171achill]

Plus the beet.....

[The Derry Road]

Super video footage, those where the days, sadly gone TDR

[Mayner]

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.

[Riversuir226]

Nice bit of footage, some nice detail footage of the ammonias which will come in handy.

[burnthebox]

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

[DiveController]

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?

[Railer]

It's a Mk1 GSV behind the TPO.

[Eiretrains]

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! )

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There is also a [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtPbkXB4No&list=PLFB61F7D68CC79776'>playlist of similar material

Edited April 27, 2015 by Eiretrains

[richrua]

thank you for making these unique slices of the tasty Apple Tart that was Irish rail in the recent past available!