Timber wagon transfers @ Carrick-on-Suir & Clonmel (9-4-2014)
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2014
- GM 071 class no. 088 is seen here operating a timber wagon transfer firstly through Carrick-on-Suir station, Co. Tipperary en route from Limerick to Waterford and then at Clonmel station, Co. Tipperary on the return journey to Limerick.
Wednesday 9th April 2014.
I have wonderful memories of Carrick and the sad feeling of getting on the train back to the ferry.
Superb shots, love the old signals
Thanks again! Yeah you can't beat the old semaphores, so much character about them :)
great video !
Cheers Daniel! :)
Excellent footage Danny !
Cheers Stephen, thanks for watching :)
No problem ;)
Great video, nice to see the token exchange taking place, many thanks for sharing Danny!
***** Much appreciated Mick :)
Cheers for that.
No prob Tommy you're welcome :)
Excellent shots Danny! Carrick-on-Shannon looks much tidier now after the relaying but it's a pity the loop was removed. Great semaphore action again too!:D
Thank you Seán, it's reminding me of the way Thomastown went. Before you know it it'll be nothing more than a halt :/ btw not too sure the Shannon flows through South Tipperary ;D
That's what school does to me! "We've men from the Nore, from the Suir and Shannon"
lol so the Bold Fenian Men are to blame then! :D
Haha, in a manner of speaking;D
awesome shots man if i ever went to clonmel i'd prob never leave the area with the lovely sighting of the decent signals
Thanks! I'm getting as much footage of them whilst I still can :) Been texting you there maybe your phone's off, was wondering what direction that IWT was going today and also where the light engines were heading?
your welcome man and i never heard to phone going of and the IWT was going to Ballina and 088 was possibly going to Limerick and 086 might have been going to Portlaoise i'll have the footage released shortly i'm just reviewing it to make sure the clips are in the same order i took them :)
No bother, it's just I've got confirmation the empty rail train is running from Portlaoise tomorrow and was wondering if either of those locos would be on it.
I could be wrong but my best guess is that it might 086 again the same as last time when you caught it last weekend and that's grand man fingers cross she shows
That's what I was thinking too. Thought there might be a surprise in the offing, ya never know though :)
What were they thinking removing the second track in Carrick on Suir! Irish Rail PWD workers seem adamant to remove all points on the network!
Just another in the long line of strange decisions by IÉ! There's now no passing loop between Clonmel & Waterford so with the proposed idea of a new Bulmers keg liner to Waterford it certainly rules out any hope of an improvement in the already pathetic passenger service on the line. Of course that was probably IÉ's thinking given the way they've treated the route over the years :(
Great shot of Carrick and Clonmel. Was the Clonmel part earlier in the day than the Carrick part?
Cheers Tommy! No, one followed the other. Why do you say that?
right, i know what you mean, but wouldn't the timber trains alone be enough reason to keep the line open? seems to be a healthy amount of timber traffic on the line, and its beautiful line as well.
The actual timber flow doesn't operate on this line Ciarán, that runs on the Waterford - Kildare - Ballina/Westport route. The workings filmed here only run once every odd week and are wagons undergoing servicing @ Limerick before being reused on the liners out of Waterford.
Normally the transfer leaves waterford at around 8.30 and returns around 12.00.
The schedule must have changed Tommy, here's the times they currently run at: tinyurl.com/o2t3cac
Great video! Shame IÉ removed the second track at Carrick-On-Suir. Any news with the ITG there? Seems as though IÉ is doing it's best to cut them off!
Everything has gone very quiet on the ITG front, worryingly quiet actually. The last I heard was last summer when they got old 226 started up but nothing since. Funds are desperately low with them, any preservation work getting done is mostly coming out of the volunteer's own pockets :(
ahhhh right, i see now, would freight have flown through this branch line at one point or another?
Indeed, it used to be a hive of activity! Up till the mid 2000's there was regular sugar beet trains running from Wellingtonbridge on the Rosslare line to the factory in Mallow, Co Cork. It had a very successful cement flow to Limerick too but heavy losses incurred in the other flow to Platin near Drogheda meant the plug was pulled :(
nice video mate, i like the way you got your scooter in the beginning there haha :P and ya knew that didnt look right, with the siding pulled up, i knew something was missing, anyone know whats going on there??
Thanks Ciarán, lol yeah my wee scoot deserves a look in now and then, it serves me well :) They're trying for some reason to rid Carrick as a block post. Just a matter of time before the signal cabin is decommissioned and the semaphores will be a thing of the past too. Seems crazy there's now no passing loop the length of the line from Clonmel to Waterford :/
hahaha ya i dont know if you noticed but i did that in a couple of my videos too, i would get my bike in the shot a wee bit haha :P and that really doesn't make sense, wouldn't getting rid of that loop be less efficient? i thought maybe IÉ is having a tiff with ITG...
See it alright in some of your shots at Farmingdale :) With the loop gone there's even less chance of increasing the number of services on the line (which amounts to a paltry 2 each way per day with none on a Sunday!). IÉ have always wanted shot of this line and that attitude doesn't appear to have changed :(
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Many thanks Jakub :)