CIÉ 'Retro' Diesel Locomotives, Dublin (1964)

CIÉ Metrovick and General Motors diesel locomotives operating passenger and goods trains in County Dublin during the mid-1960s, featuring Amiens Street, Harmonstown, Skerries and Glasnevin. Filmed by the late Tom J Dowling. Digitised and edited by Ciarán Cooney. irishrailarchiv...
©Irish Railway Record Society

[@paulbelfastlimerick]

Thanks for posting Ciarán: A superb video!

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks Paul, glad you liked it!

[@kevinmurphy8491]

Very interesting old footage and coaching stock . The most fascinating thing to me was that the Amiens street turntable was vacuum powered by B124 itself. Interestingly in the years that followed and at every other turntable I can think of in Ireland at any time, the loco was turned by hand by the driver and whoever else was available

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks Kevin, glad you found it of interet.

[@ewanduffy]

Thanks for answering my question, which I don't have to ask now!

[@raymondodonnell7214]

lovely,so poignent especially now with Murphys 121 model coming out

[@paulfogarty7724]

Amazing to see this, though it looks more like it was filmed in 1910 haha. Great we still have it to look back on.

[@atlanticcoastexpress]

Thank you...that was fascinating! The late Tom Dowling films are obviously classics and I’m grateful you have preserved and digitised them. His name is very familiar to me...was he from Cork originally? Also, did he work (for many years) as a Mental Health Staff Nurse in England, particularly at Coldeast Hospital? If I have got the right chap, I have many memories of his nursing work. Regards, Rob.

[@colmocallaghan6626]

Tom Dowling worked in Royal College of Surgeons Stephen's Green Dublin, but you may have crossed paths, he was an absolute gentleman. I visited him regularly before he passed away, he was very impressed at the work Ciarán Cooney does for the IRRS archive, restoring the photos and digitizing the films that he decided to bequeath the material to the IRRS, and he also got to meet Ciarán and the chatting about modern technology as Tom worked in the photo lab in the College. When his health failed his mind remained so sharp which was great, a person's mind failing is the worse of all. I had viewed some of his films in his home many years ago and it's great to see them being viewed now by a wider audience, if only Tom was here now to see the reaction, what would he make of it, he left behind a great legacy of photos and films that will be preserved for posterity, and if his photos or films are used he gets the credit for that, rest in peace Tom.

[@TeimonKauppa739]

Ah yes, times before Iarnrod Eirèann