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| Irish Loco's! 16/06/2011 at 13:41 #3224 | |
afro09
167 posts |
for anyone interested in Irish rolling stock, in paticular the dying breed of Irish Diesel locomotives, I received a lone of a book a few days ago which is a great read, the book called, " From CIE to IR" is all about the changing of Irish loco's and the rolling stock they hauled, CIE stands for 'Coras Imporar Eireann' which conntrolled Irelands public transport from the mid 1800's untill the late 80's and early 90's when the three companies of 'Irish Rail', 'Dublin Bus' and 'Bus Eireann', which made up the CIE umberella began operating as single entities, it is ironic that this Book be called "From CIE to IR" as Irish rail has now again changed, this time changing its name taking on the Irish language name 'Iranrod Eireann' which now has most of its rolling stock as EMU and DMU sets. the book starts by giving a brief description of each loco class to ever grace our rails, along with what upgrade works each loco class had completed and the trains which each class mainly hauled. Then the book holds a selection of close to 100 excellent photograph's of loco's hard at work, and some sitting waiting to go to work, with each photo there is a description of, where the photo was taken, the line the location is on, it also tells if that line is still in use or not, and if still in use it tell what trains transverse that line today, then gives the loco number, tells about the stock its pulling, tells if that service still exists or not and finishes with the loco's faith, telling you where and what the loco does today, or if scrapped it tells when the scrapman got his hands on her. for anyone interested here is a brief description of Irish loco's and at the end of the description all will be come clear as to why it is such a special book for irish railway entusiasts, The first diesel loco's in ireland where the "Sulzer Twins" Nos 1100 and 1101, renumbered B113 and B114 in later years, these loco's where built by irish rail at inchicore works in the late 1940's, powered by sulzer and crosley engines they got their nickname the sulzer twins. In the early 1950's more diesel loco's where requiered so Irish rail turned to Dukinfield based Metropolitan Vickers, ordering 60 'A' class loco's and 34 'C' class loco's, the A class would ply there trade on the mainlines from Dublin to Cork, Galway, Waterford, Sligo, Belfast and Roslare, while the C class work the suburban routes. The A and C class loco's 'The Metrovick's' began suffering engine trouble shortly after arriving in Ireland so there crossley engines where replaced by illoios built, general motors engines, which were much more powerful and reliable, so when Irish rail had another loco order to place in the early 1960's they turned to america and general motors again, and puchased 15 of the switcher design 121 class known as 'the yanks' or 'OGM's', there are only 2 yanks left in Ireland today owned and restored by the Irish Railway Preservation Society, over time drivers complained of poor visability from the 121 class when driving bonnet first so Irish rail again went back to general motors buying the twin cabbed 141 and 181 class loco's in 1965, the 141 and 181 class loco's known as 'small GM's' or 'Bo-Bo's' where to become Irelands most reliable loco's ever, universally loved by train crews. in 1975 Irish rail were off to america again to accuire a new fleet of 071 class loco's, known as 'Big GM's' the 071 class where the most powerful but heaviest loco's irish rail ever owned, the only thing stopping the 071's from becoming as loved as 141 and 181's by drivers was the cold starting problem's the loco's had which caused problem's for loco's shut down over night in far flung regions. in 1992 Irish rail turned to general motor's again but this time their canadian factory to order 32 201 'river' class loco's, called 'river class' because each of the 201's were named after a river in ireland, in 1994 201 class loco No.201 became the heaviest load ever to land a Dublin airport as it was flown over so driver training could begin while the other 31 loco's where delived by sea, No. 201 apptly named 'river tolka' as the river tolka in dublin was the first river it crossed after being placed on the rails at Dublin's North Wall. in 1995 the 201 class came into full service. Today all suburban passanger trains are operated by 26000, 27000 and 29000 class DMU railcars, with all main line trains with the exception of the Dublin - Cork and Dublin - Belfast routes are operated by new 22000 class DMU intercity railcars, the dublin - Belfast route is operated by 6 201 river class loco's specialaly converted for cross border operation's, these 201's are attched to Diedetrich push pull sets with the 201 class loco on the Belfast end, 14 more 201 class loco's have been converted for push pull operation's and work the dublin - cork route along with SVT mark 4 coaches. 12 201 class loco's where not converted for push pull use and are now in storage around the country, suprisingly we still hold a full compliment of 071 class loco's at present too, but these are bound to duties such as permanant way trains and the last remaing goods route in ireland Tara Mines - Alexandra road, 071 class loco's are also used as pilot loco's in yards up and down the country too, unfortuneately all the Metrovick's and 141 class loco's have been scrapped, with only 3 181 class loco's remaining, these are consigned to yard pilot work, as mentioned above the IRPS have the only 2 remaining 121 class loco's in the country, with the sulzer twins also having been scrapped, with plans to place 125 MPH DMU's on the belfast and cork routes before 2014 and with the Tara mine closing next year, loco operations in Ireland are drawing to a close, from 2014 permanent way trains will be the only loco hauled trains in ireland. For anyone interested in having a look for the book the ISBN: 9780711033108 Log in to reply |
| Irish Loco's! 16/06/2011 at 13:41 #16643 | |
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afro09
167 posts |
for anyone interested in Irish rolling stock, in paticular the dying breed of Irish Diesel locomotives, I received a lone of a book a few days ago which is a great read, the book called, " From CIE to IR" is all about the changing of Irish loco's and the rolling stock they hauled, CIE stands for 'Coras Imporar Eireann' which conntrolled Irelands public transport from the mid 1800's untill the late 80's and early 90's when the three companies of 'Irish Rail', 'Dublin Bus' and 'Bus Eireann', which made up the CIE umberella began operating as single entities, it is ironic that this Book be called "From CIE to IR" as Irish rail has now again changed, this time changing its name taking on the Irish language name 'Iranrod Eireann' which now has most of its rolling stock as EMU and DMU sets. the book starts by giving a brief description of each loco class to ever grace our rails, along with what upgrade works each loco class had completed and the trains which each class mainly hauled. Then the book holds a selection of close to 100 excellent photograph's of loco's hard at work, and some sitting waiting to go to work, with each photo there is a description of, where the photo was taken, the line the location is on, it also tells if that line is still in use or not, and if still in use it tell what trains transverse that line today, then gives the loco number, tells about the stock its pulling, tells if that service still exists or not and finishes with the loco's faith, telling you where and what the loco does today, or if scrapped it tells when the scrapman got his hands on her. for anyone interested here is a brief description of Irish loco's and at the end of the description all will be come clear as to why it is such a special book for irish railway entusiasts, The first diesel loco's in ireland where the "Sulzer Twins" Nos 1100 and 1101, renumbered B113 and B114 in later years, these loco's where built by irish rail at inchicore works in the late 1940's, powered by sulzer and crosley engines they got their nickname the sulzer twins. In the early 1950's more diesel loco's where requiered so Irish rail turned to Dukinfield based Metropolitan Vickers, ordering 60 'A' class loco's and 34 'C' class loco's, the A class would ply there trade on the mainlines from Dublin to Cork, Galway, Waterford, Sligo, Belfast and Roslare, while the C class work the suburban routes. The A and C class loco's 'The Metrovick's' began suffering engine trouble shortly after arriving in Ireland so there crossley engines where replaced by illoios built, general motors engines, which were much more powerful and reliable, so when Irish rail had another loco order to place in the early 1960's they turned to america and general motors again, and puchased 15 of the switcher design 121 class known as 'the yanks' or 'OGM's', there are only 2 yanks left in Ireland today owned and restored by the Irish Railway Preservation Society, over time drivers complained of poor visability from the 121 class when driving bonnet first so Irish rail again went back to general motors buying the twin cabbed 141 and 181 class loco's in 1965, the 141 and 181 class loco's known as 'small GM's' or 'Bo-Bo's' where to become Irelands most reliable loco's ever, universally loved by train crews. in 1975 Irish rail were off to america again to accuire a new fleet of 071 class loco's, known as 'Big GM's' the 071 class where the most powerful but heaviest loco's irish rail ever owned, the only thing stopping the 071's from becoming as loved as 141 and 181's by drivers was the cold starting problem's the loco's had which caused problem's for loco's shut down over night in far flung regions. in 1992 Irish rail turned to general motor's again but this time their canadian factory to order 32 201 'river' class loco's, called 'river class' because each of the 201's were named after a river in ireland, in 1994 201 class loco No.201 became the heaviest load ever to land a Dublin airport as it was flown over so driver training could begin while the other 31 loco's where delived by sea, No. 201 apptly named 'river tolka' as the river tolka in dublin was the first river it crossed after being placed on the rails at Dublin's North Wall. in 1995 the 201 class came into full service. Today all suburban passanger trains are operated by 26000, 27000 and 29000 class DMU railcars, with all main line trains with the exception of the Dublin - Cork and Dublin - Belfast routes are operated by new 22000 class DMU intercity railcars, the dublin - Belfast route is operated by 6 201 river class loco's specialaly converted for cross border operation's, these 201's are attched to Diedetrich push pull sets with the 201 class loco on the Belfast end, 14 more 201 class loco's have been converted for push pull operation's and work the dublin - cork route along with SVT mark 4 coaches. 12 201 class loco's where not converted for push pull use and are now in storage around the country, suprisingly we still hold a full compliment of 071 class loco's at present too, but these are bound to duties such as permanant way trains and the last remaing goods route in ireland Tara Mines - Alexandra road, 071 class loco's are also used as pilot loco's in yards up and down the country too, unfortuneately all the Metrovick's and 141 class loco's have been scrapped, with only 3 181 class loco's remaining, these are consigned to yard pilot work, as mentioned above the IRPS have the only 2 remaining 121 class loco's in the country, with the sulzer twins also having been scrapped, with plans to place 125 MPH DMU's on the belfast and cork routes before 2014 and with the Tara mine closing next year, loco operations in Ireland are drawing to a close, from 2014 permanent way trains will be the only loco hauled trains in ireland. For anyone interested in having a look for the book the ISBN: 9780711033108 Log in to reply |