Cab trip on 012 the week of the tall ships in Cork where people went to Cobh by train in large numbers. A classes were used throughout with large trains.
I love the sound of the engine, the old carraiges with the windows that you could open, the brakes squealing and most of all, that trip to Cobh. It is just so nostalgic for me having made the journey so often in my youth.
Great video. Brings back old memories back in the 80's , every day during the school holidays hanging out the window beside the engine , and making a ten journey ticket last about 6 months 😂😂
Wow! That was 22 years ago but it feels like only yesterday. I turned 16 that year. Happy days. Nothing like the sound of old diesel locos and jointed rails. I can smell the diesel fumes now! Pity you can't get cab rides any more.
@@RYNT1157 There is something great about train journeys.So different from other means of transport. Our trips to Youghal were magic.Pity the train from Cork too Youghal was stopped.I am still traveling with your videos. Keep up the good work.Regards Helen.
Fantastic video and great sound, Tom. Of the many countries I have been given a cabride (or driving lesson !) in, sadly Ireland remained not one of them, despite 19 visits. I particularly liked the 071s and 111s, and might have sawn by right arm off for a cabride on one. I remember the A Class 001s on the Dublin Rosslare trains, the Dublin Waterford trains, and the Fridays Only Galway to Dublin. But sadly on the Cobh I never had any. I have had a Class 80 DEMU, and a 141 on scheduled services, and even a pair of 121s and a 181 on a charter.
metrovick and rynt1157 have the best footage of the bygone railscene in Ireland on youtube. Every video they upload is a gem. Always well taken, no fancy background music just the locomotives in all their glory telling us a story of yesterday. Fair play lads for going out of your way to provide us Irish rail fans with this great stuff so very much appreciated
Cork to Cobh was my very first train journey, with my Daddy, when I was about 5 years old. I have loved trains ever since. Thanks for bringing back good memories!
The CIE staff look very smart in their uniforms. I had the pleasure of being supervised at the controls of an A class at the ripe old age of 9 in 1986. CIE were taking up the old sidings at Goold's Cross in Co. Tipp. The driver let me control the throttle wheel and the dead man's pedal between GC and Thurles. What a day.
I think this was the year I had my first-ever train ride, on this very route, and I was so happy, excited and impressed by the wonder that is the train. :) Me and the rest of my class (all aged about 6) were en route to Cobh for a school tour there. It was like an adventure for us. :) Gosh, the trains nowadays are so much quieter, smoother and emit far less fumes, haha. Thank you for the fascinating blast from the past! :)
Another bit of history is now gone from the film with the loss of the canopy over platforms 1 an 2 some of which landed on my car while I was on my way to Dublin with the 1320. The A class sound lives on in Downpatrick with A39 the last A class I worked in 1995. Thank you all for your comments glad you enjoyed the film. The driver Matt Cosgrave passed away in 2012.
I think the Irish Traction Group owns A39, and also 003 on the West Clare Railway's 5' 3" gauge section; although I don't think 003 is operational. They preserved two Metro Vick A Class 001s.
@@RYNT1157 A39r is on the Downpatrick Railway. This is true. But the ITG own it, and sent her there so she could have a home, somewhere she could operate longer than their short piece of track at Carrick-on-Suir. This is very common on heritage railways, loco owners sort out a home, and once there, they can even lease it out to other preserved railways as a guest loco at diesel galas etc. The ITG own several locos in total, including 121s and 141s (no: 146 ?, also on the Downpatrick), plus all three NIR 1, 2, 3 shunters, and some G class locos (617 ?).
My father was a driver in CIE for most of his life, from steam engines to the big mainline diesels. He passed away in '82. When he was on the Cobh run which was back and forth all day which he classed as a rest from the mainline runs He was home for his tea (via the Killarney bar)
He left us this month 35 years ago, a couple of weeks short of his pension age (64) to which he paid into for 45 or so years. The CIE told our mother she wasn't entitled to anything because he died before his entitlement began. Leo Delaney who was the union rep took up the case and CIE eventually agreed to give her 3.50 pounds a week but only for 3 years. It wasn't worth her while cause then the tax crowd started to bombard her to know where this new found wealth was coming from and was she hiding more etc..... It was the smoking that killed him in the end. It was a toss up between that and the drink. How things have changed.....
A well executed video. No image stabiliser in those days so very well done. I was on that line in June 2010 and loved the ride. I want to see the line to Youghal reinstated. i wondered why the six coaches but then remembered that it was the time of the tall ships.
Great footage from a unique unrepeatable era. I used to travel across for the last years of the A’s and used Oakland’s the B & B next to the station. In the morning I used to look out the bedroom window to see what engines were on the first two Cobh shuttles! Happy days...
It was an A class built in 1955 by Metropolitan Vickers with a crossley engine of 1,200 hp. They got GM engines in 1968-71 of 1,325 hp some were uprated to 1,650hp. All were withdrawn in the late 1990s. There were 60 in total.
When I was 5yo, they had steam trains at Amien's St station [Connolly] and the fireman let me have a go. Standing on the footplate, shoveling a bit of coal, and my Dad having a banter with the driver. Imagine that now, and there would be a legal team on your footplate. The lawyers have destroyed us all and so has political correctness. They've taken it all away from us. Kids can't even play in the schoolyard anymore. However, thanks for the video. Brilliant.
