Inspection car 721

[ttc0169]

A nice modelling project to do would be this IE inspection car seen here at Castlerea station siding during the week.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

It would make a nice little kit and the front windows look very like a 201

[WRENNEIRE]

Did ED have a thead to something like this on the last forum?

Remember something like this and I think ED posted?

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

I think it might have been a different type of inspection car Dave but I can't be sure to be sure:)

[Train model]

It's a wonder Sean Browne didn't try to put in hells kitchen.

[Kirley]

Gareth of the Belfast Model Shop did a model of one of these. Maybe he'll put up a pic of it.

[Broithe]

I think it might have been a different type of inspection car Dave but I can't be sure to be sure:)

Was it this one?

 

 

It's made from the Bachmann Amtrak/Union Pacific inspection car.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Yes that's the one but its different to 721 in the above picture

[ttc0169]

Was it this one?

 

It's made from the Bachmann Amtrak/Union Pacific inspection car.

 

That's my model of EM50 no' 700 which is based on IE's track recording car,721 is an inspection car used by per-way inspectors to check conditions of level crossings,fencing,cuttings and embankments along all lines,

721 is the only one of its type and was built in 1993 by Hugh Philips-the only other inspections cars are no's 722 and 723 which are a different type and were built in 1994 by Matisa-

I haven't see 722 or 723 for some time.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Any photos of the other inspection cars Noel

[Broithe]

There was this thread - http://irishrailwaymodeller.yuku.com/topic/50/Track-inspection-vehicles?page=1 - on the last forum.

[Warbonnet]

Managed to catch 721 running around Kildare a few months back, start of this video.

 

[enniscorthyman]

Was one of these inspection cars called Jess?.

I like the EM50 model Noel,as she was on the

Ballinacourty branch in 1990 with the last ever

movement over that line.

[Broithe]

Was one of these inspection cars called Jess?.

 

I'm sure that somebody put a picture of 'Jess' up recently, but I can't find a reference...

 

Maybe it was in the 'Photographic Websites' bit..?

[ttc0169]

 

I'm sure that somebody put a picture of 'Jess' up recently, but I can't find a reference...

 

Maybe it was in the 'Photographic Websites' bit..?

 

721 is named Jess-the nameplate is halfway on the body.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

How much rolling stock actually carries a name on the IE network

[ttc0169]

How much rolling stock actually carries a name on the IE network

 

Anthony-no rolling stock nowadays carry any names,

The last rolling stock in the IE era to carry a name were the Mk3a coaches and they were named "Cu na Mara",

They worked on the Heuston-Galway route from 1994 to 2006 until they transferred over to the Westport route for approximately one year until withdrawal in 2007.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Anthony-no rolling stock nowadays carry any names,

The last rolling stock in the IE era to carry a name were the Mk3a coaches and they were named "Cu na Mara",

They worked on the Heuston-Galway route from 1994 to 2006 until they transferred over to the Westport route for approximately one year until withdrawal in 2007.

 

What about locos Noel. IE ain't really renowned for naming their locos like other railway companies any ideas why.

[Broithe]

What about locos Noel. IE ain't really renowned for naming their locos like other railway companies any ideas why.

And yet some city stations got named, perhaps because there were several in some places. There seems to be much less of a desire to name things than there is in the UK - army units, hospitals, schools, etc..

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

And yet some city stations got named, perhaps because there were several in some places. There seems to be much less of a desire to name things than there is in the UK - army units, hospitals, schools, etc..

 

 

Yes NIR do the same naming a lot of their locos and stock

[Warbonnet]

Yes NIR do the same naming a lot of their locos and stock

 

All the 201s are named, as is 082(?) and wasn't 150 named at the Inchicore 150th too?

 

I think naming locos is a very UKcentric thing, while some French, German and US CSX locos get names (that I can think of off hand), it doesn't really seem to be the done thing on railways in other countries.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Yes Fran I agree that the 201's were really the first complete class of diesels to be named but I am more interested in why the likes of the older diesels like the A/C class and Sulzer/121/141/181/071 never received the same treatment.

 

As for a UKcentric thing when you look back at the history of Irish railways and see that it they originally came from UK companies building a major trading route to the British empires 2nd city at the time (Dublin) I surprised the practice of naming locos never really took on this side of the Irish sea. It would be interesting to see if the rest of the British colonies kept up this practice.

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20C/Connolly/slides/Connolly_20080523_040_CC_JA.html

[warb]

model of jess class 721