A look at Irish railways both freight and passenger plus a visit to the transport museum at Cultra in Northern Island. A private visit to Railway preservation society of Ireland base at Whitehead and a look at some of their collection.
Nice photography. Well done. Somehow you seem to have missed out Heuston Station in Dublin, the main station for all passenger trains to the south and west of the country. But no matter; you have captured a fairly representative selection of rolling stock. Number 800 in the transport museum looks impressive. It is reputed to be the second most powerful 4-6-0 in Europe, after the GWR Kings in Britain. It would be lovely to see it restored to working order, but I fear it would prove too heavy for some lines. Anyway, the cost would be formidable.
I have covered Houston in previous videos and didn’t have the time to do it this last time as I wanted to concentrate on recording freight movements which as you probably appreciate can given the small amount take considerable time. The museums also took up a day.
Great video. Charleville is fairly unique as a station because its platforms straddle both Counties Limerick and Cork, the northernmost 15% or so being in Co. Limerick!
Jesus even with their refurb the old germans are starting to look their age, glad to see so many even older 071's still knocking about, no better sound than an 071 at full cry up a gradient. When you see 201's on liners it does make you wonder why American and European countries arent using them for freight operations, they are still the perfect modern freight mover, especially in the states, given there massive switch to distributed power, 2 or 3 201's would replace between 6 to 8 GP7's on head end and tail end power, also they meet the American built law that all American operators have to abide by when buying new rolling stock.
Good clips. About time that Ireland and Britain electrified all their railways , as they have done on the continent , and finally do away with the fuel guzzling dirty diesels . A good case for all Ireland railways and reopening some lines or light rail, for example from Derry to Donegal. Anyway Ireland is making a better fist of it than the privatised dog's breakfast in Britain. We need HS2,3,4&5 to connect Glasgow to London and HS1 , and spurs to Stranraer, and into Wales as far as Pembroke via Cardiff and Swansea. Never going to happen when infrastructure is a party political football and a vehicle for overseas profit.,😔
