Irish Rail NIR Enterprise + Freight trains, Dunleer Signal Cabin
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2015
- Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways Enterprise and freight trains passing Dunleer station and signal cabin, between Drogheda and Dundalk, in April/May 1997. The De Dietrich 'Enterprise' stock was on trial during this time prior to the closure of Dunleer signal cabin.
©Colm O'Callaghan
It's lovely to see Dunleer station while still substantially intact.
It had been reopened for one or two trains each way per day, for a couple of years when Padraig Faulkner, a local TD, was minister for transport, but then closed again.
The two storey building is now the public library.
Filming the procedure for switching out the signal cabin, was a great service to railway history. Cabins were switched out up and down the country, for a century or more. At first I thought it was a breach of privacy to show the signalman getting into his car, but it also is historical. A generation earlier, the signalman would have gone on his bike and a century earlier he only had shanks mare, bikes only being afforded by the wealthier until the first world war.
Love this video. Great pity there is no freight north of Drogheda anymore. I went to primary school in Sandpit which is a few mile south of Dunleer. Kellystown back was just a field away behind the school. I used to be able to see the freight trains pass while on my lunch break.
I also used to be able to hear the 071s very distinctive powerful beating sound very regularly from my house at night. Sometimes it would vibrate the windows.
All that goes north of Drogheda now is railcars.
Thanks for sharing Colm and Ciaran.
There is potential for freight to the North. Lots!
Another fantastic video Colm
Thank you for uploading this video Colm. Very much appreciated.
myscene2010 Many thanks, all the De Dietrich footage in this video clip are not service trains, but trials before entering service, the ''orange trains'' where ordinary service trains of the day.
What a great video, many thanks for sharing.
Palopp
A very interesting collection of clips; cheers for the upload. Trainspotters were living the dream in them days.Must have required some strength to move those levers in that signal-box!
Yes the green levers needed super strength to pull, they were the up and down distance, the signalmen were well use to them.
Lovely video! Love the three car enterprise
Why was it 3 cars?
Great video ,A sight never to be repeated again ❤️Was only 23 going on 24 in 1997 when this was filmed ,I suspect Video cameras were Chunky things before memory cards came out in the 21st century,Wow where does the time go?Great video footage .
A superb video.
This was a very transitional time indeed.
Absolute Block (on this line) working and Bell Liners were about to disappear.
Meanwhile the track had been relaid and the new Enterprise train sets were coming in to service.
As for freught.....
Yeah. Like it. Nice collection of clips
SMILEVIDEOTRAINS Thx Keith, glad you liked it.
Very nice.
amazing video Ciaran i didn't think the enterprise ran in such short rakes during they're trial runs
Irish Race And Rail The Enterprise never ran in short rakes, but before entering service, the ''3 piece De Dietrich trial train'' ran quite often, it even did trials to Ballybrophy, Thurles and Limerick Junction with 206.
Colm O'Callaghan nice one how many trial runs did it do down to Ballybrophy, Thurles and Limerick Junction
In the early years of De Dietrich enterprise operation, Irish Rail ran a Friday afternoon relief train to Dundalk, made up of the spare de Dietrich coaches.
The de Dietrich fleet was composed of 28 vehicles; 4 each of driving trailer first, full first, restaurant car and 16 standards, enough to make four sets of seven coaches each. From the beginning, IR and NIR chose to make three sets of 8 cars, by augmenting each with a standard from the fourth, spare, set. This left one standard, and one each of the others, as spare. This motley collection was then pushed into service on Friday afternoons.
I never travelled on it, it would have been a treat to sit in brand new first class coaches, at a standard class fare. Can't remember how long it lasted, probably a short period. It probably was discontinued by the time many of us became aware of it.
Nice clip from the good old days!
Johndeereman2k11 Glad you liked it!
Brilliant video Ciaran, is Dunleer Station still intact?
It's still there but it's not accessible anymore.
Was the signalman telling the cabins either side to switch Dunleer out or what did he do before heading off home or what was that all about?
That was the procedure when switching out the cabin, doesn't seem like 25 years since I filmed that video in Dunleer.
awesome video!! IE should of kept the orange paint scheme..
Ummm.............why have that amount of new, potent, power pushing the three-carriage passenger train at 1:40, yet considerably less pulling power, if Wikepedia is to be believed, pulling a fairly long cargo train at 1:57? Is there method behind that apparent madness, or is that just poor management?
supafuckinmingster The train at 1:40 was test run with the new Enterprise carriages, it might not have had anything to do with the pulling power, things were a bit better by late 90s as the 201 Class locomotives allowed the powerful 071 Class to handles freight trains opposed to the small GM locomotives (121/141/181).
1600 gauge
#Bolsonaro17
0:49 we dont need dis trash