I traveled Rosslare harbour to Tipperary in the 1960’s and the beginning of the 70’s as a child from London going on holiday to visit my Grandfather’s farm in Bansha, the train used to break into a gallop with a roaring noise coming from underneath the coach, then there would be a brake application,as far as I can remember this was the type of running for the whole journey to Tipperary, the Cravens coach stunk of beeswax, very heavily varnished woodwork, milk white toilet windows, sometimes the train would stop in the middle of nowhere and then a young labourer type would clamber down from the train with a suitcase and clamber up an embankment across a field, pre arranged with the guard no doubt
Is it at 0:52 seconds in you see the ill-fated points? Very eerie how you caught them on camera just two months before the disaster. I recognise the level crossing a few seconds after. For some reason I always thought the disaster happened on the Dublin side of the level crossing, not at the station itself. I can't believe this is June, weather looks terrible. I was only a few weeks old in June 1980, but my dad often mentions the summer of 1980 was very poor.
Yes it is and the driver is the late Bertie Walsh who was the driver of the ill fated train. Little did he think that two months later this would happen.
Love this. Great to see Limerick Junction as it was.
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I traveled Rosslare harbour to Tipperary in the 1960’s and the beginning of the 70’s as a child from London going on holiday to visit my Grandfather’s farm in Bansha, the train used to break into a gallop with a roaring noise coming from underneath the coach, then there would be a brake application,as far as I can remember this was the type of running for the whole journey to Tipperary, the Cravens coach stunk of beeswax, very heavily varnished woodwork, milk white toilet windows, sometimes the train would stop in the middle of nowhere and then a young labourer type would clamber down from the train with a suitcase and clamber up an embankment across a field, pre arranged with the guard no doubt
Fascinating video, very poignant for the reasons you mentioned, also some great footage of the original Rosslare Harbour pre-80s redevelopment
Is it at 0:52 seconds in you see the ill-fated points? Very eerie how you caught them on camera just two months before the disaster. I recognise the level crossing a few seconds after. For some reason I always thought the disaster happened on the Dublin side of the level crossing, not at the station itself.
I can't believe this is June, weather looks terrible. I was only a few weeks old in June 1980, but my dad often mentions the summer of 1980 was very poor.
Yes it is and the driver is the late Bertie Walsh who was the driver of the ill fated train. Little did he think that two months later this would happen.
Superb stuff
oddly enough the mileposts in rosslare are still related to the mallow line one of the drivers told me
Thanks for Memories I had done Limerick junction to rosslare harbour beautiful scenery n Waterford to R. Too that's gone they lost it