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Great footage love the cement wagons something else great times 👍

Great footage 👍

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.

Fantastic video, subscribed!

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

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.

Was that the end of using mk2 carriages?

Where did this happen? Don't recall it.

Wow. Arson?

What happened there

What caused the fire?

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

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

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

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

Very poignant

What exactly is a block post?

Lovely

Where did all these trains end up?

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

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

The glory days of the 071 class

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?

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

Amazing. Something that will never be seen again unfortunately

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

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 😊

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 🙏

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

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.

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.

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.

Where’d you get the mark4 model ?

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.

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

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

Brilliant footage 👏 👌 😊

This is the smallest mk4 push/pull set ever

You may be able to help me. The weekend that president Bush came to clare. The dual carriageway between Ennis and limerick was closed. As a result of this. A bridge strike occurred in cratloe. Due to this an empty timber train that Irish rail were positioning to limerick was stabled in crusheen for 4 days. The loco failed on restart and irish rail positioned one up from limerick to get it and the timber wagons. Can anyone remember the number of the failed loco and the one sent up from limerick?

Shay checking in from dublin thank you ❤

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I live near Cratloe myself and there is very little change except that the station house is now someone's home and the trains sadly don't stop.

I loved Claremorris in those days with a proper layout. Westport is one of my favourite places in Ireland. Ballina I first visited in 1988 on the Balligo Divider tour with E428. Luckily I did the line to Tuam and Athenry before closure. The Ballina shuttle was always a haven for Park Royal stock. I remember hitting a flock of sheep once on the branch. Never went in my namesake bar, Sams Bar in Claremorris, as I was too busy with the trains. One has to prioritise. Much love from London, England. Great video.

My dad was the signal man there, I remember those bulk cement trains very well

Great video as always!

In retrospect, CIE should've turned to American engineers at the very start since they had already been building successful and reliable diesels since the 1930s.

Great footage,, 👍

I miss the mk3s. In hindsight the tan and orange was really outdated in 1989. That era should have brought in silver, red stripe colour liveries

Great video. Shame that those coaches haven’t seen an update since. Travelled in Citygold a few weeks ago, a tatty coach that badly needed an upgrade.

I missed that train by 2 months when I took a drive to Kiltimagh and down to Claremorris, + Ballinrobe Rd crossing/ footbridge and at the first few level crossings: south, on the N17.