Irish Rail Trains - Portarlington 2004

Irish Rail locomotive hauled trains at Portarlington, featuring 071 and 201 Class locomotives, Mk3, Mk2 and Craven stock.
Filmed summer 2004.
eiretrains.com/

[@MetroVick]

Very nice Eiretrains.
233 had a modification to its exhaust system at that time - sounds great at 3:35!
Not a railcar in sight.

[@Eiretrains]

Thx Metrovick, I'd actually forgotten about 233 and its engine, fortunate to catch it I suppose!

[@irishrailtrains]

Excellent shots Ciaran !, I really miss those Mk3s, Mk2s and Cravens.

[@Eiretrains]

Thx IRT, wish we'd have them all back again :)

[@irelandbloke]

Great video. It looks more than only 10 years ago !!

[@finnyusIRL]

Superb video Ciarán! Great to see the Executive set as well! Great time to be out gricing!

[@Eiretrains]

Thx Finnyus, I wish I'd taken gricing pictures too :P I was too video obsessed back then :(

[@RtrainProductions-ll1su]

Amazing camera for 2004!

[@LDEGM]

Very good video! Congrats!

[@Eiretrains]

Thx glad you liked it.

[@phillipwilloughby5013]

I see 214 in this. Only ten years old then and was one of the ten 201's (201-205 & 210-214) which went into storage five years later. Being cannibalised for parts for the operational 201's I believe.

[@TransitWorld]

Look at the two executives at the end of the video! Excellent shot .Must have been a charter. Any idea of where the executives are now? North Wall,Waterford...

[@Eiretrains]

Thanks, I was sort of yacked by that train(!) I hadn't properly looked at those clips in years and hadn't noticed they were the Executive set, so it might have been a special, a few of the them are still in Inchicore I think.

[@Eiretrains]

[@dashcamdude6690]

Had the guard access to the rest of the coaches from the generator car

[@Eiretrains]

Yes there are corridor connections between all coaches.

[@phillipwilloughby5013]

Yes. And on the Mk3 the guard sat in First Class and only went to his cabin to open & close the doors.

[@noelraymond5599]

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