SouthernYard

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@emily1 2 күн бұрын

great vids of our Nancy!

@SouthernYard Күн бұрын

@@emily1 and a great little locomotive it is too! We enjoyed our time there.

@trainsinireland5063 2 күн бұрын

Lovely Footage!😃.

@SouthernYard Күн бұрын

@@trainsinireland5063 thanks!

@signalcabin 2 күн бұрын

And no pesky background music - Perfect!

@SouthernYard Күн бұрын

@@signalcabin thank you. Sometimes the music is necessary where it’s cine footage with no sound!

@MGstaR17 11 күн бұрын

The Dart is still doing well.

@lincolnarmasols283 12 күн бұрын

Very old commentary outdated voice overs

@SouthernYard 11 күн бұрын

This was 1956 after all!

@markitg1972 17 күн бұрын

If it had been a Park Royal and not a Craven you'd have been in the dirt

@WilliamLmk 17 күн бұрын

A Shame that there isn't no Freight to Limerick

@mattfender 14 күн бұрын

I've 071's passing by my job on the ballysimon road all the time :D

@johnbuston1732 18 күн бұрын

Fantastic film, cheers for posting 😊

@nednedtom 19 күн бұрын

I knew some lads that helped themselves to the odd Guinness barrel. Up at clonsilla station 😅 Train had to stop and wait for the Sligo to pass.

@RJH1971 19 күн бұрын

Be rude not to!

@fivefootthreetothreefoot 19 күн бұрын

Brilliant video. Freight was so good back then

@michaeljohndennis2231 20 күн бұрын

Do you think the high speed rail tunnel between Dublin and Holyhead will ever get built? - combined with a LUAS extension to the Stena and Irish Ferries terminals at North Wall via Dublin Docklands once they extend the M3 Parkway line to Navan, it would make my getting home on visits from Manchester Victoria so much easier

@SouthernYard 19 күн бұрын

Never say never but unlikely anytime soon! Would clearly be a massive undertaking.

@michaeljohndennis2231 20 күн бұрын

Having lived 23 years in Manchester U.K., when coming home to Ireland on visits, I honestly think that Irish railways are way better and are far more civilised than the U.K., precisely because Irish Rail is not privatised like the U.K. rail network is, with so many U.K. TOC’s and other state bodies that are holding the railways back from progress, as we saw with HS2 - Irish Rail staff are also so friendly, customer focused, approachable, polite and helpful too ❤❤❤❤❤

@SouthernYard 19 күн бұрын

That’s good to hear, generally the staff are very helpful and having a sole operator does have benefits, especially in a smaller country like ours.

@YouMadeYourChoice 25 күн бұрын

0:53 Oh my god , it's a trespasser on the tracks

@SouthernYard 23 күн бұрын

Back then it was nearly normal!

@YouMadeYourChoice 23 күн бұрын

@@SouthernYard woah!

@unitedrail-mainchannel8991 Ай бұрын

Gold

@rodgertaylor2387 Ай бұрын

Great footage love the cement wagons something else great times 👍

@SouthernYard 21 күн бұрын

They sure were good times

@rodgertaylor2387 21 күн бұрын

@@SouthernYard thanks 👍

@rodgertaylor2387 Ай бұрын

Great footage 👍

@glenc633 Ай бұрын

Any idea what the full rake of mk3s were doing over in Connolly? Inbound GAA special perhaps, it looks to have gone back over to Heuston as empties.

@SouthernYard 21 күн бұрын

A GAA special I believe ex Kerry or Cork.

@bogiesandbricks Ай бұрын

Fantastic video, subscribed!

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

Thank you and welcome to the channel, lots more similar videos if you scroll through the videos listed.

@trainsmachineryldegmtrains3509 Ай бұрын

Wow. Great capture, super video! Thumbs Up All the best from Romania Andrew

@Transport_Mayhem Ай бұрын

When was the exact date of this incident, was everyone onboard ok? Also what was the other loco number at 1:28 I thought it was 210 or 218.

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

Don’t have exact date, looks like it’s 218

@andywebster7511 Ай бұрын

Was that the end of using mk2 carriages?

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

No the carriages were the cravens coaches (mk1s), they were modified to fix the electrical issue that caused the fire.

@thomasburke2683 Ай бұрын

Where did this happen? Don't recall it.

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

Ardclough, Co Kildare.

@domesticterrorist483 Ай бұрын

Wow. Arson?

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

No electrical issue caused it.

@NaoiseHeneghan-nx8ig Ай бұрын

What happened there

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

There was an issue with the lighting circuit on one of the Cravens, all remaining Cravens coaches were modified after.

@StuartStudios5 Ай бұрын

What caused the fire?

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

There was an issue with the lighting circuit on one of the Cravens, all remaining Cravens coaches were modified after.

@gavintobin4912 Ай бұрын

Is that old Adamstown Bridge @06:44 and the site of Lucan South station on the right?

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

I think so. It’s changed a bit since then around those parts.

@gavintobin4912 Ай бұрын

@@SouthernYard Actually the building in the left of the bridge is Kilsaran Concrete which is still there. I got dropped off at that bridge from a special on the way back from Westport at about 6am one Sunday morning in 1990 I'm guessing 22nd April. I had worked the dining car to Westport the previous Saturday then we hung around Heuston for a special put on for the musical Cats in the Point Depot. Think we left around midnight on the Saturday with a double train that split in Athlone. The Mayo auldwans were gasping for tae and were unforgiving that this trolley boy had already fed & watered the Galway crowd before I could feed and water them. I was actually a military apprentice in the Air Corps and worked my Easter holidays in Irish Rail while living in Baldonnel airbase. For that double Mayo in a day trip I got £25 for 25 hours work. I asked the guard to ask the driver to drop me off at the bridge to walk up to Baldonnel and he obliged. There were old stone steps up from the demolished Lucan South station.

@user-yo6bx2gn7d Ай бұрын

Departing Clare Morris for the last time never to be seen again rip mk 3 coaches

@trainsmachineryldegmtrains3509 2 ай бұрын

Great rail video! Lovely old images with trains! Good work! Thumbs Up All the best from Romania Andrew

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

Thanks glad you enjoyed it 👍

@alannewman85 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting me know! I wonder what happens to ‘staffs’ when they close the line. Nice souvenir.

@SouthernYard Ай бұрын

They end up in personal collections. One of the best in country is on display in Hells Kitchen museum in Castlerea.

@alannewman85 2 ай бұрын

Very poignant

@alannewman85 2 ай бұрын

What exactly is a block post?

@SouthernYard 2 ай бұрын

It’s a station where a token called a staff is exchanged with the train driver which ensures the train safely enter the next section.

@johnbuston1732 2 ай бұрын

Lovely

@CRyan71 2 ай бұрын

Where did all these trains end up?

@James-ih4gz 2 ай бұрын

all 18 071s are still around the mk 3 stock was all scrapped in 2010 and 2014. there are about 11 cravens saved and some mk 2d stock was saved by the rpsi. the 141s are still around but most were scrapped and few saved. there is only 2 121s in preservation

@AndreiTupolev 2 ай бұрын

Orange 071s, Cravens and Mk 2 and 3 stock 🎂

@trainsinireland5063 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic Collection of Shots from the Good Years on Irish Rail!😃.

@andywebster7511 2 ай бұрын

The glory days of the 071 class

@CRyan71 2 ай бұрын

Were there protests at the time or did people just accept the closure? What was the reason? Was it that moŕe and more people started buying cars?

@SouthernYard 2 ай бұрын

No protests, people just accepted this unfortunately. The government some years earlier had made the service useless for the travelling public by having one service a day. To make matters worse, you couldn’t do a round trip from say Limerick to Galway as the train timetable didn’t facilitate it. In one station the southbound train stopped there, but the northbound didn’t…….hard to believe! Because of this very few people used it. This was closure by stealth and was policy in these times across a number of routes. Imagine operating a service today with one train each way. The bus service was better, and CIE put on competing bus services on this route also, further highlighting to the public how useless the train service was. Thankfully these type of policies are generally gone, but even today the Limerick-Waterford and Ballybrophy line services being below what’s needed.

@CRyan71 2 ай бұрын

@SouthernYard I'd love to see old stations opened. Take for example the Limerick Junction to Limerick line. I drive the Tipp Limerick Road most days and it's bumper to bumper. The middle of the day now is like what rush hour was like a few years back. Traffic backed up to Boher in the morning. Many cars with just the driver. Meanwhile the rail line runs beside it all the way. I'd love to see a commuter train stop at 2, 3 or 4 junctions say Oola, Dromkeen, Boher every half hour from say 06.30 to 09.00 and again 16.30 to 19.00. Only thing is you wouldn't have many needing these stops exiting Limerick in the am needing those stops nor needing them entering Limerick in the PM.

@JamesBerliner 2 ай бұрын

@@SouthernYard Even the reopened portion of the WRC between Limerick and Galway is underserved in my opinion

@bob-seek-destroy-sd1708 2 ай бұрын

We had an even better service in those days compared to DPD Amazon and Ebay even joom your waiting at least a month for delivery if we had contracts with China in those days it would be a 24 hour delivery service no BS

@bob-seek-destroy-sd1708 2 ай бұрын

Amazing. Something that will never be seen again unfortunately

@SouthernYard 2 ай бұрын

Yes it’s sad there won’t be trains like this running again. But there’s other traffic lost that could make a comeback.

@michaeljohndennis2231 2 ай бұрын

Irish Rail and the Irish Government need to cop themselves on, stop making lame excuses and reopen this line to passenger trains NOW!!!!

@SouthernYard 2 ай бұрын

Unlikely given it’s a greenway…..but you never know.

@stephenchecksfield632 2 ай бұрын

Interesting 🤔 sound of the Crossley engine should give a fair idea of what the sole surviving class 28 Metrovick Co-bo locomotive D5705 should sound like when eventually it manages to run again 😊

@SouthernYard 2 ай бұрын

Yes, and this sound should be a closer match to the class 28s compared to their Australian cousins.

@SouthernYard 2 ай бұрын

Look forward to hearing D5705 in the future.

@karlbarry4151 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning video and incredible moving, as this journey starts in mullingar my mind Is drawn to how many people stepped off that platform on to a train and emigrated back in the day, love to know what part of the world they now live in 🙏

@SouthernYard 2 ай бұрын

Happened unfortunately on most stations in Ireland in the 50s to the 80s. Thankfully times have changed, but Mullingar to Athlone may not see a train again.

@oliverjumelle 2 ай бұрын

If your interested. The sprayer is due to visit this line on Thursday. DEP limerick at 10:45.

@domesticterrorist483 2 ай бұрын

The train stops to allow a pheasant to get out of the at the bridge 15:54 very sweet of the driver to not just squish it.

@jeffcarr9801 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this wonderful piece of film. I well remember travelling from Crewe to Loughrea to see my parents in 1975. Picking up the Euston-Holyhead mail train late evening on a Friday and transferring to the ferry for an overnight cabin to Dun Loghaire. Train to Dublin Connolly for the first service to Galway, with a full Irish in the dining car and then meeting the folks at Attymon for the local service to Loughrea. Then the same journey back on a Sunday arriving bleary eyed for work on Monday morning. Great memories.

@SouthernYard 2 ай бұрын

That was some trip home! It was an adventure then, long before cheap flights.

@brokenglasses121345 3 ай бұрын

I went on a mixed cycling/train tour with my brother and my best friend in Sept. 1976. On arriving in Limerick from Rosslare Harbour, before heading to west Clare on the bikes, I enquired about the train to Galway via Ennis for when we got back to Limerick. The staffer said the last train just left. I said 'not for this evening, in three days time'. He said, 'No, the last train ever, just left.The line closed today.' We camped out that night near Kildimo, and lunched the next day in Foynes, where we had a good poke around the now closed station. Little did I know I'd be commuting to work in Dublin in those same Craven carriages when they reopened the Maynooth line in 1981. I look forward to seeing the trains run to Foynes again, and maybe someday be able to repeat the trip from Rosslare all the way to Limerick, and who knows, down to Foynes.

@SouthernYard 3 ай бұрын

A nice memory to have, and different times. While we can no longer travel to Rosslare from Waterford, you can now travel between Galway and Limerick. Further expansion of the network is happening.

@Flying_Shamrock 27 күн бұрын

yeah sadly Irish rail couldn't give a flying fuck about passengers so there's no passengers on the line its sad askeaton adare and patrickswell and more could have connection to the city center and if they opened the cement spur line so could dooradoyle

@Stuart-little 3 ай бұрын

Where’d you get the mark4 model ?

@SouthernYard 3 ай бұрын

Not my layout but I believe they were modified from UK models

@abeonthehill166 3 ай бұрын

The reason so many lines have closed in Eire is because freight was not taken into account; how many truck journeys could be removed from the roads if it was attractive ( lower Tax ) for freight to run on the railway ? I accept that some lines are “ no hopers” and should be removed and replaced with a Road or Cycle lane however, just because a line is a loss maker does not mean it should close; often extending can make it profitable and allowing all the people to have a national “ Bus & Rail pass” for €1200 per year would perhaps make public transport more attractive . In the UK in the 1960’s Dr. Beecham closed down many lines that we in the UK wish we could reopen again and, to be fair some have been reinstated and are well used. Just because Eire has a small population does not mean the lines from Waterford to Rosslaire should have been closed as that line could have been upgraded for freight as well as passengers with the aforementioned public passes i mentioned. If we truly want less car journeys then these lines must be returned for people and freight as evermore roads will not solve the Climate claims that Charlatans in Dublin Leinster House are always screaming about.

@hawkerhellfire9152 3 ай бұрын

Theyd have been better to keep the steam engines. Abysmal diesels till they were updated with GM powerplants.

@SouthernYard 3 ай бұрын

They seemed noisier and polluted more than the steam engines they replaced! Didn’t seem like progress, though it clearly was in technological terms.

@valentineshanley2959 3 ай бұрын

Great video, my late father Jack Shanley worked in this signal cabin and number 2 cabin on the Galway loop. Mullingar station is now sadly a shadow of its former glory. The Galway platform now derelict. Let us remember all those who worked at Mullingar station, who gave their working life to CIE, including my grandfather Edward Purcell, my uncle Matthew Purcell. RIP to them all. Best Regards Valentine Shanley

@SouthernYard 3 ай бұрын

Very sad to see the waste that is the Mullingar to Athlone greenway. Should never have been tarmaced over. Mullingar was once a fine junction station. It’s sad to see the dereliction on the Galway side.

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