Hello and welcome to Irish Rail Trains, this channel is all about Irish Railways, and even railways further afield. I travel all over the island of Ireland taking photos and videos of the current Irish Railway network. There will also be visits the long forgotten railway lines hidden amongst the bushes.
I also have an Irish model railway, every couple of months there will be videos posted about how my layout is doing and its current status.
The trains I mostly film are the loco hauled trains because I personally think they are way better than the newer trains introduced to Irish Railways. There will also be videos of excursions taking place anywhere on the Irish Railway network, there will also be many steam train trips appearing on this channel so do look out for them !
So that's basically what I do, I do hope you enjoy watching my videos.
The only part of these trains that do be used on the enterprise trains is when one of the ends need to be replaced if the end that comes off one of the ends of the enterprise trains fails to work
Brilliant compilation and nice to see the turntable at Rosslare Harbour looking so well. It's still a disgrace that the rail head was moved away from the integrated ferry terminal, about fifteen years ago now, and of course that the direct services from Limerick and Waterford ceased! P.S. I hope that video on the quays in Wexford wasn't shot from a left-hand drive car😅
Really excellent Video composition. Holy cow, I didn't think a 201 could fit on that turn table, how did the table cope with the weight of the 201, my brain was thinking wow they are going to turn her, but why as dual cab modern era diesel electric loco would they need to! Would love to do that trip some day on a proper steam train.
We went to Galway yesterday to the hospital in howth. We went to get chips in moychurn there is no more chips superb We went to a restaurant to make a red balloon and we went to funtisum water park on the slides I was sick last week with baby rian but now I am better tari got a cat she is black and white she will call her Daphne skye she died in the cage in the end.
Fascinating on several counts:- Coaches with seats at the windows- reminiscent of the days when train travel was comfortable and you could watch the scenery! The coaches looked like they had B4 bogies. Were they British built? Do they belong to the RPSI or were they chartered? When I saw the turntable, for a moment I thought that they were going to turn a twin-cabbed loco. I hope that the tour was a success- the weather was good and the route looked very interesting.
Just a shame there was no steam loco pulling the train. Seems obvious (besides cost) but wouldn't the Irish Steam Preservation society not benefit from running an auxiliary push-pull GM diesel on the back. Or even acquire a battery powered tenders ?
It’s literally the one line with a turn table at the end, so why push-pull? If it’s in the event of a failure, I think the money could be spent than building a battery tender. “Here’s enough funding to have an auxiliary system because we know you’re going to fail.” Yeah, I’d rather they just sort their crap out instead, like learning how to communicate properly during failures.
201s lasted barely 20yrs,all now parked up in inchicore works,engines seized from being to the elements ,exhaust stacks were not covered over and vandalised from trespassers gaining unauthorised entry from outside
That was great, thanks. Quite the drive too, seriously well done capturing all those locations. I think it's my favourite line, I really must get over there more. Thanks again
4:03 looking at these particular Irish trains from a U.K. perspective on the Clonsilla/M3 Parkway line, these may need refurbishment and/or replacement in the next few years - they do look and smell a bit worse for wear on the outside and the interiors could do with some attention as well - the newer trains are quite pleasant, even in standard class, but I would be prepared to pay extra for first class on longer journeys out of Dublin, such as Dublin to Belfast or Dublin to Cork/Tralee
I’d love to see a LUAS service operating from the Irish Ferries & Stena Terminals at Dublin Port via Dublin Docklands and a direct train service operating via the M3 Parkway line to Navan (when it gets extended) as I live in Manchester and have family in Dunshaughlin, currently using SailRail via Chester & Holyhead - I don’t expect to see ferry services operating from Salford Quays or Liverpool to Dublin any time soon, nor do I expect to see a high speed rail tunnel under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin any time soon either, given the failure of HS2 here in the U.K. - the very reason that Irish railways are so successful compared to the U.K. is because they have not been privatised and because the Welsh government have engaged in leftist restrictive practices that are holding progress on the U.K. railways back which I have seen at first hand in my 23 years living in the U.K., so it is a joy to come home to Ireland to see proper railways run properly
Thanks Rene, no I was using the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. You couldn't use a tripod on the tube. You'd have to get permission from the underground for that. The Pocket 3 is very discreet while still giving excellent image quality
Nice video 📹👍🏽!! It makes me happy to see CSX finally able to run double-stacks through Washington DC. The Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore is the only remaining obstacle to be conquered 🛤🛤
Alexandra road is one of the few places where you fget a real sense of the scale of a locomotive. Putting it in context with road traffic really shows the differences
