Irish Rail - BELL Liners A Class/GM trains
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2014
- Irish Rail BELL liner freight trains hauled by A Class and GM locomotives at Lavistown, Kilkenny, Muine Beag and Thomastown.
Filmed by Colm O'Callaghan, Feb/March 1994.
©Colm O'Callaghan
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A great reminder of the trains we had and have now lost. Great video Colm O'Callaghan and thanks to Eiretrains for posting it!
Idly watching videos of the Irish diesel locomotives of my youth for no particular reason, then suddenly realise I am watching this one precisely 30 years after some of it was filmed, 26 February 2024. Wow!
Great stuff eiretrains. Love the sound of the A working hard in the second clip. Also, quite a sprightly performance running round. Driver must have been enjoying himself!
Thx James, yes the A Class sound great at full throttle! I don't know the timetables of the time, but in the days before the Lavistown Curve, the freights may have had quick turn arounds to avoid blocking up the section in Kilkenny.
Keen/rough shunt..... :-D
Wonderful old images with trains! Great video! Thumbs Up
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Andrew
Thx Andrew, glad you liked it.
Thanks for sharing Ciarán
Very nice.
Nice one Ciaran, well put together.
Thx Stephen, there'll be more to come :)
Almost brings a tear to my eye watching this :'( I only began filming around there in October of that year, just as the last of the A class was withdrawn so never got them on film. Super footage, keep 'em coming Ciarán :))
Thx Danny, hope this brought back good memories, although I probably saw them I was too young to take in any A Class traction, or Bell liners for that matter, so it's just as well yourself and others took the time to record it all for our posterity!
+The Irish Mainline Hi Danny. Hows things? These're good golden oldies! Are there any 071s @ all in this video or're they 141s, 181s, 121s & 001s? D.
+D. J. O'C Hi Daniel, I'm alright, not been filming much lately but got myself a new cam to try and get me back in the spirit, have a few vids to upload in the next few days. Not a '71 to be seen in that vid, they were the mainstay of the passenger services then prior to the 201s arriving on the scene.
The Irish Mainline I see!
Lovely. Thank you for sharing.
Thx glad you liked it.
nice video..
Grand job there!
Hard to fathom that's 20 years ago now!! Brilliant captures!
Glad you liked them!
Shame 😢that the dismantling and closures on Ireland’s railways were less merciful than that in Britain. I’m more of a steam fan, but I like the colors of these diesels. 👍
Amazing footage Ciarán:)
Glad you liked it Seán, wasn't myself who shot all this though, I wasn't on the scene for a good while yet :)
Eiretrains Thank you Eiretrains. I feckin loved that loco as a child and watching, and just as importantly, listening to it now is surreal.
supafuckinmingster Thanks, but I didn't film this, someone else did (see credit at end), I was 5 at the time :)
wow... i can barely remember kilkenny station like the way it was.... a real nice look back on it
Thx Jonathan, I remember the old station like that myself in 2002, didn't think the whole place would end up the way it is now!
I think it had more class or a sense of what a real station should be back then.... the feness and history is gone out of it now unfortunately
Jonathan Phelan Yes the stations are very clinical looking nowadays sadly!
Eiretrains I couldn't have said it better myself
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How come sometimes there's one 141 class loco ( I think that's correct) like 6:00, and other times there appears to be two of the same locos, as in 5:22? Is it because one train is empty and the other full, or is it that with the double loco train, the lead loco is also transporting the loco behind it? As a non train driver, I'm curious?
supafuckinmingster I think it depended on the locomotives available at the time, mainly they were A Classes or double 141/181s, but back in the 90s anything could be on them if need be, the single 141 was not ideal.
Eiretrains One more thing........at 1:30, the train arrives at that particular station, the loco switches ends, 1:35/2:25,. Now I understand the logic of this with a passenger train, but a freight train? Was it making a delivery at that station?
Before 1995, all trains coming to and from Waterford reversed in Kilkenny's dead-end terminus, but after 1995, a direct curve at Lavistown outside Kilkenny was built and it allowed trains to bypass reversing in the station.
Eiretrains Understood. Thanks for that. Footage of the new curve perchance?
Why is that bell going via kilkenny? great footage!
IrishRail123 The Bell is going via Kilkenny because the because the Lavistown curve didn't exist at the time, I cursed that Lavistown curve IrishRail123, it was always a nice chase, getting the Bell on ether side of Kilkenny, but when the Lavistown curve opened, the Bell liners ran direct without going into Kilkenny.