The content here seems so raw, it's almost like steam is just still in regular service. The way the trains are running at a good clip, and they don't even bother turning them around to look pretty. They just run tender forward if necessary
Ah, the nostalgia this compilation evokes! 1950's childhood train journeys. Brings to mind Robert Louis Stevenson's (he of 'Treasure Island' fame) poem 'From a Railway Carriage' From (1885) "Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle:..."
@Noel Ryan Me too Noel.We used to get the train from Amiens Street station to Belfast to visit our cousins for 2 weeks in the Summer. Then they'd return with us for another 2 weeks. We used to run down the platform to admire the loco and chat to the driver who always had time to answer the many questions of train-mad young boys. Magic memories.
@@bahoonies You'd be warned not to poke your head out the window in transit for fear you'd get sparks and smut in your eyes and your face blackened with soot. The scariest experience was travelling through the very long tunnel (just over one mile long) in or out of Cork. (2013 video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LhmycDkvMOU.html)
Amazing rail movie! Awesome images with Steam Locomotivs in action! Beautiful palces and landscapes! Good work! Thumbs Up All the best from Romania Andrew
@@irishrailtrains You're very welcome. Those Irish steam engines are colorful. I am looking forward to seeing more footage of them, so keep up the excellent work!
It is unbelievable that the British ,Irish and Scot still love their steam traction while a country like India had switched over to the electric traction long back.We see steam engines only in museums!The huffing and puffing of these steam engines seen in my childhood days still haunt me yet and I hear the whistles and steam horns still in my ears.Long live the British inventors of steam engine though dead!
Great video ,love It. Find them fascinating because they look so English but her so Irish. The coaches look like BR Mk 1 and they look like B4 bogies. The tank engine looks like an ex LMS Stannier loco. Nice to see that Ireland uses Broad gauge.
a few of our trains were built by British manufacturers, the v class in the first clip was built in Manchester and you're right, the tank engine is an ex LMS loco. A lot of mechanical engineers would move between Irish and British rail companies, so yours and our trains are pretty similar. there were a few Irish engineers that helped design trains for BR and brought there design idea's back to Ireland.
I’d suggest it isn’t, but looks close to the sea, where the salt water air is attacking the iron. The top of the rail head would indicate wear through use. Certainly the state of the ballast and top don’t suggest rare use.
I knew the man that did the fastest time from Belfast to Dublin on the Merlin 85, just to get news reel in time for the news on rte TV. Many Many moons ago
I never knew Ireland had their own locomotives! I would have thought you guys used BR hand-me-downs or something like that. Does Ireland have the same loading gauge restrictions as the UK? Very cool, and excellent video.
@@Frserthegreenengine The usual term is « Broad Gauge » ie « wider » [ your word ] than Standard Gauge ie 4’ 8 1/2 » and less wide [ to use your reference term...] aka gauges are « Narrow Gauges ». A common Narrow Gauge is 3’ 6 » and the « widest » ie Broadest. Broad Gauge in Britain was double this width at 7’ favoured by the great railway, ship, tunnel and bridge building engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel who however lost his battle for his Broad Gauge of eighty-four inches and made to convert his Great Western rails to Standard Gauge. Thank goodness he wasn’t made to go down to Narrow Gauge of half the width of his commendation....!
oh yea my grandad remembers the steam train that use to come in to oldcastle at i think was oldcastle creamery its now a co-op the last original shed and feed silo went up in smoke halloween i think 2 years back but the train came in from dublin theres still the old small crane there and theres picture around it of when they were there
Very few steam locomotives were bought second-hand from Britain. During the age of steam, Irish railways either built their own locomotives or bought them new from manufacturers (mostly) in Britain. Also, many chief mechanical engineers (the people responsible for designing locomotives) moved between British and Irish railway companies. That's why our steam locomotives look very familiar to British eyes. Irish railways use Irish gauge which is 1600mm (5' 3"). It's a broad gauge and is wider than those used in the UK and most of Europe. At one time a very extensive network existed. Thats been cut back since the 1960s but there are still rail connections between Dublin and the major population centres across the island (with the exception of the northwest). At one time Ireland also had an extensive 3' narrow gauge network too but today Bord na Mona's industrial railways and a few heritage railways are all that remains.
Great video. Great to see them in such fine fettle! Never knew about this.....Do they get one day out a year or how does it work? Would love to get to see one in action some time if they come down around Carlow etc... I’ve subscribed 👍🏻
Thank you very bud, they get out at least 15 times a year. There is usually a tour every month, to keep up with the latest trips visit their website, Railway Preservation Society of Ireland to keep up with the latest developments. They're amazing machines to see in action!
@@upthereds4939 No Worries. Just to note there is no railtours happening this year due to the Coronavirus outbreak, so once that blows over things should get back to normal.
Very good! And even better with these locos WITHOUT smoke deflectors! And not even those German ones either! At speeds allowed at present for steam in Britain why the need for SDs....they’re just a fetish eg in France on preserved steam big tanks running at modest speeds they use them!! [ mark you They might have an excuse with their lousy briquettes of coal! A tight unholy stink they make when standing still at station platforms!]
