Excellent footage Colm. The combination of the evening sun and A classes/071's etc., on so many freights makes for terrific viewing. How it has all changed! Great to see it so well preserved on film for all to see. Have a double header steam at the same spot which I must look for and upload. Thanks again. Eamonn
Colm O'Callaghan Hi Colm, I can't thank you enough for taking time to make this years ago, the enjoyment it gives me now is immense. I grew up in Finglas and many an evening was spent bunking on the lines to get a glimpse of the trains. Then my nan lived down on Elizabeth street right across from the embankment and many a happy day was spent looking out the window across to the trains, waving at the drivers etc. on the "ironer" bridge also. I loved watching the freight trains coming back to north wall between 2-4 in the morning, the tpo would be attached to guinness and container trains with lots of 60 foots at the time and on a very rare occasion would be pulled by a triple header of locos, maybe it was due to a breakdown I don't know but I never forget seeing that 3 engines pulling very long freight trains. Anyway I just want to thank you for what you do. Best of luck-anthony!
aprc1977a Your very welcome Anthony, I did a lot of video in the Glasnevin area and the ''iron bridge'' at Claude Rd, I grew up in Finglas and went to St Vincents school in Glasnevin, I got my interest in railways from the North City Mills rail siding beside the school, Eiretrains put all my dusty tapes on to DVD, and now on to RUclips so that others like yourself can enjoyed them, Kind Regards Colm +
It was general containers sundries traffic, the railway largely withdrew from this business, nowdays it's mainly individual customers like IWT, DFDS, Coillte (timber) see IRRS Journal February 2006 No159, Pass Scenes- Freight that was
Irish rail was a public service. Corruption by Narcopath Politicians was probably the downfall of the fragile but sustainable sub wagon freight system.
1993 now 30 years ago.unreal
Excellent footage Colm. The combination of the evening sun and A classes/071's etc., on so many freights makes for terrific viewing. How it has all changed! Great to see it so well preserved on film for all to see. Have a double header steam at the same spot which I must look for and upload. Thanks again. Eamonn
Wow!! Thanks for sharing! Loved seeing all the bell liners
Yes the Bell liners were great back then.
Fantastic footage. Thanks Colm & Eiretrains.
Let's say it in this way: it's a little less today...
Thanks for the footage!
Excellent video, nice memories and nice to see the turnout in assembly stage! Thanks for sharing!
nice one colm
brings back a few nice memories :))
Who can say there's no market for rail freight in Ireland! The market share was about 10% then. Can you imagine what 25-30% would look like?
some lovely footage from a very busy time for Irish Rail. thanks for the posting
Yes IRT, glad he took the time to record them, so that now we can enjoy them today! (still can't reply direct to your post btw)
Excellent footage Ciaran, Colm sure did a great job at filming those liners.
Great video. I think this is the only footage I've seen of 60ft flats being used on a liner. Thanks for sharing
Excellent shots, one of my favourite locations to film. Unfortunately it looks as though it will be closed off my a new 1916 Memorial.
Excellent!!!
Great to see video of the Asahi Chemical liner, and so much A class in action
Was Broadstone station anywhere near this.
This video is 21 years old tomorrow!!
That makes me feel really old, time does fly.
Colm O'Callaghan If only we had the same scenes today with our HD cameras!!
Colm O'Callaghan Hi Colm, I can't thank you enough for taking time to make this years ago, the enjoyment it gives me now is immense. I grew up in Finglas and many an evening was spent bunking on the lines to get a glimpse of the trains. Then my nan lived down on Elizabeth street right across from the embankment and many a happy day was spent looking out the window across to the trains, waving at the drivers etc. on the "ironer" bridge also. I loved watching the freight trains coming back to north wall between 2-4 in the morning, the tpo would be attached to guinness and container trains with lots of 60 foots at the time and on a very rare occasion would be pulled by a triple header of locos, maybe it was due to a breakdown I don't know but I never forget seeing that 3 engines pulling very long freight trains. Anyway I just want to thank you for what you do. Best of luck-anthony!
aprc1977a
Your very welcome Anthony, I did a lot of video in the Glasnevin area and the ''iron bridge'' at Claude Rd, I grew up in Finglas and went to St Vincents school in Glasnevin, I got my interest in railways from the North City Mills rail siding beside the school, Eiretrains put all my dusty tapes on to DVD, and now on to RUclips so that others like yourself can enjoyed them, Kind Regards Colm
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Where does that line lead to? The line the freights are going to
It leads to the Cork main line at Islandbridge (just west of Heuston station) via the Phoenix Park tunnel.
What exactly used to be carried in the old liners and where did the freight come from and go to when it was off the trains?
It was general containers sundries traffic, the railway largely withdrew from this business, nowdays it's mainly individual customers like IWT, DFDS, Coillte (timber) see IRRS Journal February 2006 No159, Pass Scenes- Freight that was
Thanks Colm. Did the containers just go straight from ports to large towns and cities for onward distribution?
Irish rail was a public service. Corruption by Narcopath Politicians was probably the downfall of the fragile but sustainable sub wagon freight system.