CIÉ / NIR Passenger + Freight trains @ Dublin - Belfast (1975)
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- CIÉ / NIR passenger and freight trains operating on the Dublin-Belfast GNR(I) main line recorded between 1971-1975. Includes NIR 'Enterprise' (0:06), Bayside Station opening (0:58), Ardee branch (1:35) and Gormanston (3:44). Locomotives featured CIÉ 141+181, 201 Classes and NIR 101 Class Hunslet, filmed by the late Joe St Leger.
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I was 21 in 1975. To think that the loco pulling the Enterprise is now in a museum, boy does that make me old!
1975. It's really interesting to see what was on the rail the year I was born. Thanks for posting.
Wonderful footage and wonderfully taken by a gifted cinematographer and photographer!
Brilliant footage, I can't believe how much Bayside has changed since 1973!
Brilliant film from Joe as usual its great that these gems are being posted by the IRRS. It shows when the re-engined C class dominated the Dublin Suburban scene. The top and tailing of the Enterprise was unique. The tragic Gormanston accident when the Push/Pulls were new. Traveled behind B202 on a P/P that year from Bray. Good shot of the " Bacon slicer " Mak loco K801 in Drogheda its a shame this unusual loco was not preserved.
Thanks Tom, indeed terrible shame the MAK was not preserved, at that time Joe recorded in Drogheda it had been working goods between the station and the cement factory, it's amazing the material Joe managed to record.
The Hunslet Diesels provided an excellent service with high power and acceleration
Excellent footage 👍🏻
The first train is now in the Ulster folk and transport museum
Yes but Im told that that last remaining NIR Enterprise Hunslet, is merely a cosmetic job. Im told it cannot run. The other 2 Hunslets were scrapped.
Lovely footage. Thanks for posting.
Thanks glad you liked it.
Lovely footage long time ago now
I was born in 1975. This is making me feel old :) just kidding glad this film was saved. It's brilliant. 🚂
Great Footage
Grit range to see one of my local stations with no electric wires above the tracks and loco hauled trains
Thanks glad you enjoyed the film.
Very interesting footage 👌
At the beginning is that train the "Falcon" Because I saw it at the Ulster Transport Museum
Yes that is the preserved locomotive 102 Falcon, the other sister locomotive on the rear of the train is either 101 Eagle or 103 Merlin.
This is just brilliant:-))
Interesting the C class locomotives went from silver to green to black and tan liveries, and they became B class in the late 60's when they got more powerful engines, they later dropped the B and just had the number.
Yes they nearly every livery up til the late 1980s when they ceased operating. A few C Class engines never received the silver livery and entered traffic in green (when it was discovered how bad the silver looked in service!)
The livery of the Enterprise stock. Was that a dark blue?
Yes it used to be a dark blue/navy colour with maroon.
Yes and Im told that that coach NIR livery was related to the old (pre UTA) LMS/NCC one..
I'm looking for images/video of the interior of Irish rail carriages from the 1970s and 80s. Do any such pictures or video exist online?
Hi Robert, there are some publicity films of CIE trains in the 70s and 80s on the IFI Archive site@ ifiplayer.ie/?post_type=post&s=irish+rail
What is the music please?
It is wonderful music, the soundtrack for these videos is really fitting, especially when it’s happy and relaxed, in a major key, I find it helps soothe the feelings of nostalgia and regret that the footage evokes.
Great layout.Great idea's.Hope you like mine
I'm just so sad most of these diesels are almost all scraped
I agree with you up to a point but not all Of them can be saved, they may not be in salvageable condition, not forgetting we don't have the privately I preserved railways they do in the UK, so once a loco Is preserved where can it be run? i have also been told taking vintage trains onto the mainline isn't too easy, contrast that with the preserved Leyland Atlantean in my avatar. I know the guy who owns it avd he needs no ones permission to take it on the road. at least some 001 and 201s have been saved in tunable condition. One of the former class and one or 2 of the latter. Better then nothing.
@@FcutdladyI think they should save 227 from being fully scrapped
@@freakedout2008 I agree it would be nice but from what I've just read on Wikipedia 227 has faced multiple acts of metal theft and general vandalism not to mention outside storage which, from my experience of bus preservation, rots bodywork thus making preservation a harder task to accomplish. This is why I don't think it will even be cosmetically preserved. The owners left it too late. I was speaking to my boyfriend on Facebook messenger just he's active in train preservation. He know more about it then I so I asked him. I'll send you another message here with his answer.
@@freakedout2008 my boyfriend's opinion : as to its condition, it is held together by rust. There is no diesel engine inside it, the main generator was in it when I last saw it, but since then some hippos had a go at it after all the copper inside it.
Honest answer, it is only really fit for scrap, with the few useful things like it's bogies being saved
My comment: I try to be realistic. There's what I would like to see preserved and what can be preserved. Also there's precious few places to run these
Locos here, unlike the uk. It can be hard to get them onto the main line. You need deep pockets or a group that can raise money to get a loco preserved too. I would love to see 227 saved but realism must creep in.
@@Fcutdlady Yes. But maybe the RPSI or the Ulster folk and transport musuem could do a cosmetic restoration or Try and make it look good again.