Train porn

Tow

Demoing pointing at signs and signals etc, which is required in Japan. It helps to keep drivers alert and reduce accidents.

TranslatorPS

It's all the more hilarious considering that they've installed the simulator from the Shiki Crew Department, which staffed* the Tobu Tojo Line, which itself has had cab signalling in place on about 63 km of its 75 km length since spring of 2015. Tobu Tojo drivers barely do any pointing and calling anymore because the only thing they'd have to point at is the speedometer.

*) the crew base itself was mysteriously closed on 14 July last year, with all of its staff, at least 150 people, relocated to the other two bases on the line.

Well that probably explains where they got the simulator from.

Glaceon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR3VolUyMyg

Nice bit of 071 noise. Anyone know what might have been wrong here?

Tow

They left the handbrake on :-)

funny advert

https://youtu.be/iN7naLLeB0A

Eiretrains

The 2023 archive film show featuring lines in Limerick & Kerry (plus the DSE) during the 1970s and 80s:

https://youtu.be/V14kiY-5KfY

Beta Ray Bill

Seen this a week or to ago

Basically the Story goes that that freight train stalled on Blair hill and needed a helper. (I don't know why it stalled, I'm assuming mechanical fault). 4014 Big Boy was on that road at the time and the dispatcher asked if they could help...

Almost like a story from Thomas the Tank Engine about the reliable old steam train, having to pick up after an unreliable diesel 🤣

Great to see it doing some work, serious piece of machinery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icgH_3dXdOU&t=7s

Itssoeasy

https://youtu.be/9wJejg8NxIM

A video about the electrification of the ECML in 1989. Amazing work and it was done on time.

91wx763

A couple of minutes of B122 class with sound, alas no sound from the Sulzer B106 though from 6 minutes in in this video about Ennis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDI6ef8Ab8o

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120945378#Comment_120945378

Such a shame, I’ve never heard a B101 in action. Any footage I’ve seen has been silent.

Glaceon

Automatic gauge change while in motion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDkGUnqLXUk

cml387

I don't this has been posted. A cab ride in West Cork on a lifting train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hofx9guumkM&t=114s

Hotblack Desiato

I read that as 'tilting train' 🤔

Charles Babbage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121346181#Comment_121346181

Great find. it is a pity that such a record has not surfaced for the other lines.

Itssoeasy

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Manic Moran

A photo of the weird. Unusual manufacturer using unusual technology in an unusual paint scheme.

elevendroids

Interesting and very nicely shot 2023 video from German TV (SWR) railway documentary series "Eisenbahn-Romantik" ("Railway Romance") - "Die irische Ostküste" (The Irish East Coast).

Starting in Rosslare Port, going up to Dublin - traveling on board the ICR and DART. Apart from beautiful views and some history, features insights into the CTC operations, DART maintenance depot in Fairview, interviews with the drivers, traffic controllers, mechanics etc.

Unfortunately no English subtitles.

Translated description:

Ireland is still more of an insider tip for rail fans. There are not many routes, but some are all the more beautiful. The one on the east coast is particularly attractive.

From Rosslare in the south-east, the route first runs parallel to the coast and then along rivers into the mountains. Back by the sea, the long beaches and spectacular cliffs at Greystones are impressive. On Ireland's oldest train line along Dublin Bay, we reach the capital and finally the Howth peninsula.

We travel with rail expert Oliver Doyle, first on the Intercity and then on the DART commuter train. He takes us to places that shaped his career on the railroads, such as the port in Rosslare and the central signal box in Dublin.

What impresses the rail traveler on the journey close to the sea is a challenge for the railroad workers. During an inspection trip with the chief engineer of Irish Rail, we find out how they try to master the erosion and make the line safe.

We broadcast this episode, number 1056, for the first time on 17.11.2023 under the title: The Irish East Coast - From Rosslare to Dublin. #railway romance #swr 

All statements and facts correspond to the status at that time and have not been updated since then. 

Fancy more railroads?

Unfortunately, I don't have enough "karma" to post proper embedded links - search YouTube for "Neue Folge: Die irische Ostküste - Von Rosslare Richtung Dublin", or use video ID "Tpkmlxjs1aY".

If someone could post a proper link below that would be great :-)

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121504549#Comment_121504549

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpkmlxjs1aY&feature=youtu.be

Here you go 😊

cml387

This is just beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK5pxtsrBw8&t=780s

cml387

I hate people dropping a video and not describing what's in it 😄

It's called The Long Drag and is a film shot in 1964 along the Settle-Carlisle line

myfreespirit

This is a photo of a long-closed station on the MGWR line, named Ferns Lock. The date of the photo is not known, but probably originates some time in the 1960's or perhaps earlier. The signal cabin and station house are long demolished, but the station platform survived into the 1980's before Irish Rail removed all traces of the station

Apologies for the poor quality of the image - the original photo is blurry unfortunately