Brilliant video. It's sad to see all signal boxes empty today... My late father would have loved to have seen that footage as he worked with CIE all his life...
Great! Thanks for your lovely video, the carriages have electric motors on their axles , don't they? I used to love the marvellous sound of the engines, I wonder did they go above 5,000 RPM?
Brilliant video. The signalman is PJ Ballesty. Many the evening I spent with PJ back in 2002. Your video captured an interesting feature of the electric token block system(ETS). At 3:23 you can see PJ opening a lock with a key on lever No58. 58 was the starting signal towards Mostrim, now Edgeworthstown. The key is locked in the token instrument and is released when Mostrim releases a staff to Mullingar. This was a safety feature that prevented a signalman from clearing the starting signal without first getting the permission from the signalman in advance. At 11:05 you can see PJ put back No2, advance starting signal to Killucan, lock it normal in the frame, remove the key and then place it in the Killucan token instrument before giving train entering section, 2 bells. Incidentally, No2 was a new semaphore signal commissioned in 2003 following rationalisation of the yard in Mullingar. Great video. If you have anymore please upload them.
Great video, my late father Jack Shanley worked in this signal cabin and number 2 cabin on the Galway loop. Mullingar station is now sadly a shadow of its former glory. The Galway platform now derelict. Let us remember all those who worked at Mullingar station, who gave their working life to CIE, including my grandfather Edward Purcell, my uncle Matthew Purcell. RIP to them all. Best Regards Valentine Shanley
Very sad to see the waste that is the Mullingar to Athlone greenway. Should never have been tarmaced over. Mullingar was once a fine junction station. It’s sad to see the dereliction on the Galway side.
That was a wonderful trip back in time. I assume it was a Sunday, due to the up Cravens train. I don't think that there was any station on the Island like Mullingar! I was in the cabin on Good Friday 1998 and took ftge, but nowhere as good as yours. I got very nostalgic.
