Last Days of Limerick Ballina Train Service 1976 

Wonderful dog. Lovely film

One could say the dog was well trained. Fantastic look back at Ireland and very nostalgic. Simpler times and not a mobile phone in sight or ubiquitos TV screen. People looked happier, smiling and less hurried. Great days when you could stick your head outa' the window.

That film made my day. Especially the ticket collector with the passengers and the red seats of the carriage lit by the sun. Seeing Claremorris South with the footbridge and Ballinrobe Rd crossing before joining the Westport & Munalla Junction/Ballina line was fantastic. I was fortunate to travel between Limerick & Athenry on the Back N Black tour in March 1999, Hauled by preserved A39.

Almost completely flawless film. Fantastic!

A beautiful video of a time gone by accompanied wonderful music. I worked in CIE in the truck and bus workshop in Dundalk as an apprentice mechanic from 1962 until 1966 then finished in Broadstone workshop in Dublin one until 1967 as I reflect now It was the best time of my life . Now in Sydney since 1970 .

Filmed when the sun always shined, and you could walk from Cork to Larne to see the Forty Shades of Green. Oh, what have we lost! Thank you, Tony; thank you Frank.

Got to love the dog ❤️ Rather complex operation at Athenry.

Simpler times.. when people had time to stop and chat.. lovely film

👍 Great video to the Classic Tranquility soundtrack - Phil Coulter.

The German Shepard with the staff 😃 love it, such nostalgic footage, always sad looking at railway times that will never be again... Thanks for putting up these videos.

Colombo was officially the coolest dog

Fantastic stuff, Frank - thanks for sharing.

Projected that 8mm film in Cork many times for Tony Price when he used to do his film show.

When Ireland was still a magical and special place.

1976 when the destruction of rail services on the Western Rail Corridor - the current so called Atlantic Economic Corridor, began.......a few years later FG used the same railway for Garrett’s Election Express and John Bruton did the same, before declaring when they won elected office, through their Transport Minister, the late Jim Mitchell that “ there will be no more substantial investment in railways”: and they then celebrated its closure to passenger and freight services. But the people of the West brought about its resurrection in 2010 and the Limerick- Galway Railway carried over 600,000 passengers in 2019.......and the next phase from Galway to Mayo will surpass this when our elected representatives eventually deliver on their promises to correct past mistakes. Great scenes here of our railway crews delivering a public service while the bureaucrats undermined their every effort.

Love these types of trains

To Tullicrine by train in the 1960's. A distant, quieter world.

That woof 🐶 was fantastic holding the single line token hoop 🤩 Pulling up the railways was madness back then but we didn’t realise how important they’d be today with the warming of our planet 🤔 I see that Irish rail is having a bit of a come back especially with new freight services like XPO new container train from Waterford 😄 Didn’t Bell liners run out of Waterford back in the day? Let’s hope more can be done now everywhere has a HGV driver shortage 😃 It’s the same story back in the U.K.

The country had a great rail network back then. What a shame it is gone.

Good dog!

Did the line reopen on the week end of the papal visit for special trains in 1979?

Does anyone know the name of the signalling system using the loops at the start of the video?

What’s the instrument in the signal cab at 3:46?

What was the cerkle ting They were handing to the driver's?

Were there protests at the time or did people just accept the closure? What was the reason? Was it that moŕe and more people started buying cars?