Irish Rail Class 201 Pre Service Feb 1995

Irish Rail ordered a new fleet of Dual Service Locomotives from GMD London. The first unit was famously Flown from London Ontario to Dublin. The rest arrived by Ship at a later date. This is a Video of preparing these units for service at Inchicore Shops in Dublin. February 1995

[@GregOnYoutube]

That's awesome Larry! Had friends working at GMD at one time,,
Painted my 78 Chev with locomotive paint,,more red than a fire truck!

[@Masted-dy7xl]

A friend of mine lived in inchicore years ago.Used to see the 071 s and 201s left running for maintenance.Fine machines up close

[@thesingingshade7984]

Thanks for uploading this Footage!

[@DiamondMaster20]

Nice cabride! Great video

[@robertbarrett3749]

My grandad was there at that time till July 2001 his crane was dicks rig and my dad is still there since July 1979

[@bigjoesburgers]

Cool video.

[@tomdublin8701]

Fantastic video 👍🎥👌greetings for lads from shed, wheel shop, and fcr 👍great job🎥🚅

[@jamiegreenwood4159]

I remember Telerail made a video for the Loco Hauled series with the Irish Rail 201's

[@phillipwilloughby5013]

A terrible shame that 10 of these (201-205 and 210-214) went into storage in 2009 because they weren't push/pull capable for the Mk4 and Enterprise. They're being cannibalised for parts for the operational ones.

[@RYNT1157]

Driver John Dowling who later became DTE and is now retired. Was up there in 1994 when training on them and we took out a brand new 203.

[@fzttwd]

We had a great time during our time a Inchicore. Your all a friendly bunch.

[@garveyoyea]

Class

[@ohoganroad]

The EM2000 just like on the 66's.

[@andywebster7511]

Did they have to run every new 201 on pre service runs?

[@fzttwd]

Yes.... there was another crew from GMD that arrived after we left to continue.

[@intothevoid5074]

Redline at 900rpm interestingly enough.