Irish railway archive footage from the Irish Railway Record Society (IRRS). The IRRS fosters an interest in all forms of contemporary and historical Irish railway activities. It produces 3 Journals yearly. Membership details below: www.irrs.ie/ facebook.com/IrishRailwayRecordSociety twitter.com/irrsofficial
I remember the greystones shuttle when the push/pull was operated by a 121. The rolling stock was in awful condition and the entire carriage would rattle and vibrate like mad over every rail joint. Great video. Thanks for posting.
Maddening at all of that old rolling stock that hatdly exist anymore. We would all be richer in thiscountry if our public capital wasn't so cheaply given up. We have decades of catch-up to do and decades of preservation that are long lost.
Great Railway history there amazing it's all recorded for posterity! So much Railway infrastructure connections has been removed !! Hopefully the Waterford to Wexford Route will reopen
If it takes till 2044 for the Luas to stretch a few kms to Bray... If it takes longer than 2044 for the final western rail corridor to Claremorris to be rejoined... Then I'd damn hope the Waterford to Rosslare comes quickly
I can relate to current comments. I remember walk outings at G mother's farm. We would take a tour on foot to Kelly's Bridge Kelly's halt on the then closed Bundoran Dundalk GNR line mid 60s. Tracks lifted early 70s If they had only remained........ comments
30 years of great service a reliable and trustworthy unit . Brought the same unit on trial to Cobh 29 years ago before they entered service on the Cobh line.
Wonder if there’s any footage of the old AEC rail cars hauled by the B class engines? I know the Darts replaced the rail cars (and thank God!) but whatever happened all the B’s? I seem to vaguely recall some old locos (not necessarily A’s or B’s) being used as a sound barrier near Heuston? Thanks for your replies to date, love all the old footage, don’t know why it’s so evocative specially I was around 10 at the time and wouldn’t have had a clue even where those locations mentioned were. Great narration by the way!
Thanks glad you're enjoying the footage! Part two of 2024 film show features a few clips of the B Class locomotives (ex C Class) working suburban trains in Dublin, including one pushpull set (ex AEC railcars).
@@IrishRailwayRecordSociety I received my IRM Metro Vick 001/A Class recently - The brochure with it was brilliant, a great description of the happenings on CIE before 'even' my time, being a 'youngster' born in 1973. I remember vividly being a mild train buff as a young lad, being incredulous in the mid 80's that these 1955 built museum pieces were still roaring around the place. Little did I know they had another decade to go. You did a great job writing and compiling the leaflet, not sure what bits you wrote maybe the whole lot, but it was great - I even loved the advertisments - how proud they were of their castings and everything else!!! (Note to self: Never buy a Crossley. Luckily the option of having that option has been decided by fate). Hope you write more like that. I wonder where I would find a similar source of written CIE nostalgia - would love to read a good book in that area - any suggestions???
There used for failed trains,you place 3 on the rail quarter of a mile either ahead or behind the train depending on which direction the assistingbtrain is coming from.
Great to see the old Clonea Castle in the background of it now. Helvick in the distance too. Such a shame no railway to Waterford now. Not knocking the greenway as this preserve the line again. Land owners on the Dungarvan to Mallow stretch are ready putting up sighs. No Greenway Here near the old Cappagh train station which is now a private house. Lismore station still stands plus a few more old remains of the line can be seen.
Hard to believe Irish rail has become the most anti cycle transport network in Europe. They went from something that ireland could be proud of to the disorganised sham network it is today
Hello Ciaran, great video and so very well presented. I am corresponding about the van appearing at Alfred Street, Cork and your request for info. I am surprised there are no replies to your request so here it is now. Any boy who collected model cars in the 1960s will be familiar with these vans and indeed they were everywhere for many years. The Commer BF was the ice cream van made by Matchbox for a number of years. That Commer BF, in real life, was replaced by the Commer Walk Thru van in about 1961. They were a large van and were everywhere. Builders had them, TV shops, butchers, P&T and any business that had large volumes of goods to move or large products to deliver. The Walk Thru was current until about 1971 or 72. Walk Thru was the official title as the driver could literally search his cargo without having to leave the van. They were badged as Commer, part of Rootes Group, UK Company, who also produced the Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam motors and Karrier Commercials. A long history here! Chrysler UK bought out the Rootes Group in 1967 and vehicles were re-badged later. This Walk-Thru was marketed as a Dodge and some people will remember later Hillman Hunters with Chrysler pentagon badges on them in later productions. You mentioned the Chevrolet P10 van and this is indeed connected. They have their origin in 1964 in USA. Everything is connected to everything else !! I wont go on any more! Fascinating subjects, trains and automobiles!! I wish I could live for another 100 years to enjoy every aspect of motorised transport. Keep up the great work, you!
Many thanks for your detailed comment @cragmorematchbox, that's brilliant info and delighted to read there is a connection with the Chervrolet P10, who knew such a design was so varied and complex! Glad you enjoyed the films also, cheers!
@@IrishRailwayRecordSociety You are very welcome, Ciaran. If you ever need to ID a car or truck I should be able to assist or at least know where to get the info. Enjoy!!
I travelled on this branch in 1971 on a fishing trip to Loughrea. Arriving at Loughrea station with umpteen bags, creels etc the stationmaster fastened them together with string and charged me for one item in left luggage! A happy memory of a memorable trip.
Brilliant video. The trellis bridge at Harmonstown was to allow access to Premier Daries. Premier and Hughes Brothers had a duopoly on delvering milk in Dublin back then and the bridge would be used by horse drawn vehicles to deliver milk to homes in the area
No. I went to school using the train until 1976 as far as Harmonstown however the trellis bridge was gone by the early 80's when DART was being construrcted. Late 1970's is my best guess for the closure@@IrishRailwayRecordSociety
This is amazing! I was just in Ireland the first week of October 2023, and rode the train from Killarney to Tralee. I saw where the Fenit Branch has been converted to a paved "greenway", but no sign of the former North Kerry Line to Listowel, Newcastle West and Limerick. What a shame this line was taken out! Certainly would have helped to have an option for the traffic bottleneck on the N-21 through Adare. But I supposed the plan for that is just to keep extending the M-20 Motorway further into North Kerry. Sad to see Ireland is making the same fatal mistakes that other countries (like the US) have been making since the 1950s. Thanks for putting this together, and for your great narration! How many of those lovely old stations along the North Kerry line have managed to survive?
The Irish Traction Group took a passenger train from Limerick to Adare, Ballingrane Junction and Foynes with baby GM 190. I was on it. This was the Flying Pig railtour circa mid 1990s. I think it was the last passenger train to Foynes.
Irish rail was awesome back in the 90s into early 2000s was a regular on connolly to howty jinction they had awesome stock, cravens, mk2s mk3 push pull arrows and enterprise in original livery, even had steam heating in 2002
