2005 was the final year of "the beet" on Irish Rail. This program has expanded coverage from a week spent covering the beet trains in November of that year.
Excellent snapshot of a period of industry otherwise forgotten
@MetroVick
6 ай бұрын
Fantastic footage.
@jasonmcaree8503
3 жыл бұрын
Great footage, also greatly disappointed there was no footage of Mallow or the Sugar factory.
@fmnut
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry, just didn't have the time to cover everything, I only had 4 days and wanted to focus on the most trains in daylight.
@kevino6618
2 жыл бұрын
Great footage! Sorry to say that almost all the locomotives and rolling stock you see here are gone. Well, there might be one or two 071 class locos left for the Ballina freight work and maintenance trains. Here's a fun fact, the 121s were only allowed to run cab forward. Running with the long hood forward caused too many visibility issues for the loco crew. The response by GM (EMD) was to stick a second cab on the 141s and 181s which have the same chassis as the 121s (and in the case of the 141s, same engines until the 121s and 141s were upgraded with the same engines as the 181s which were higher in horsepower).
@peterhanahoe4913
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely excellent, I had 2 Guinness while watching that. Loved the end shot with the 2 semaphores lit by the train. Happy memories indeed.
@martinflaherty5873
3 жыл бұрын
That's a very good pice of history martin
@alannewman85
7 ай бұрын
Fascinating info! It’s the 🤓in me!!
@Tom-Lahaye
4 жыл бұрын
Nice footage, and love the little EMD's, those were loud. The irish sugar beet traffic eventualy met the same fate as in the Netherlands, 1 mile from where I live now was a large sugar beet loading plant, but in 1994 the last campain which used the railways was held, after that year everything was trucked straight to the sugar factory as it was cheaper than to use the railway. Memorable was when one of the last beet trains in the Netherlands was pulled by steam, a short clip of its departure can be seen in this film kzitem.info/news/bejne/jn2IuoRqfKqilpw and starts at 13:18 , loading plant was removed the year after and tracks were taken out about 8 years ago.
@tomcarr1358
Жыл бұрын
Really important historic record. Much appreciated by me. Loss of this traffic between Waterford and west of Rosslare Strand did nothing to secure the future of that line. Any further time or funds available for further re-mastering would be well spent on a commentary on what was being recorded and the reason for closing the industry . By Brussels dictat , I suppose.
@oliverjumelle
4 ай бұрын
You may be able to help me. the weekend that president bush visited in 2004. irish rail had an empty timber train stabled at crusheen. just north of ennis. it stayed there for 4 days due to a bridge strike in sixmilebridge. can you remember the loco used? i think it failed on restart and a loco was sent from limerick to get it.
@fmnut
4 ай бұрын
No clue, I'm from the US and was just visiting. A local railfan group might be a better source for that info. Thanks for watching.
@oliverjumelle
4 ай бұрын
@@fmnut thank you my friend. One day I'd love to see those 6 loco CSX freightliners in real.
@RailPreserver2K
4 жыл бұрын
Those units remind me of the ones that I've seen pictures of from back when the Seaboard was still in operation they were GE built diesels but had a wide cab and this is back in I think the early 80s considering what some of the pictures quality was like
@fmnut
4 жыл бұрын
You're talking about the GE BQ23-7. It was designed to eliminate cabooses by providing for up to 5 crew members in the cab. Labor agreements downsizing crews made the design obsolete before it ever caught on. These Irish locos had 4 control positions, one at each corner, and the cabs were quite cramped inside.
@RailPreserver2K
4 жыл бұрын
@@fmnut an okay
@alannewman85
7 ай бұрын
What's the little yoke at 05:35-05:47??? Are all of the 071's still in use?
@fmnut
7 ай бұрын
The "yoke" is a cable operated wagon mover used to provide constant speed and control while loading beets, thereby saving the cost of a shunting loco and driver. It's controlled by the beet loader operator. I believe 16 of the 071 class are still in use. Not sure of the status of the NIR versions.
@alannewman85
7 ай бұрын
Fascinating. Must admit I’m just such a sucker for old footage esp our auld diesels, or ‘dayzils’ as we’d call them in Dublin! How many 071’s were there at the start? Have they started scrapping them? I’ll be gutted! Just loved hearing them! Don’t know why!
@fmnut
7 ай бұрын
@@alannewman85 There were 18 total 071s built for CIE, the NIR trio making 21 total. Similar units were also built for Serbia. 16 of the CIE survived to be rebuilt as freight engines with the gray paint scheme, also silver/black on some units. I believe the remaining 2 were wrecked and written off. The 3 NIRs are used for work trains.
@alannewman85
7 ай бұрын
Interesting to hear of the 2 X 071’s that were wrecked. I recall the Charleville crash, but I believe that unit was repaired and returned to service. I wonder what type of wreck the other 2 were involved in? Maybe the engine units themselves were damaged beyond repair without there having been an actual collision?
@fmnut
7 ай бұрын
@@alannewman85 Possibly not wrecked but just written off due to excessive repairs needed. Not a lot of source material available to know for sure. All I'm certain of is that 18 were built but only 16 were rebuilt and remain in service.
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