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JOURNAL 179 CONTENTS	AUTHOR	PAGE
North Wall	Michael H C Baker	138
Obituaries		147
Brian Davies - Railway Artist		149
Observations & Errata		150
Principles of Road/Rail Operation - The Unilok	Andrew J. Waldron	151
Golf Course Funicular Railways	Andrew J. Waldron	152
Producing the Journal	Michael J. Walsh	157
Interview, Internet and History	Peter Rigney	159
Industrial and Minor Railways	J Coleman	162
Tralee to Castleisland, Dingle and Fenit	John O'Meara	168
Review		184
Irish Railway News – National		185

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Saturday 25th May 2013.	New Railcar Depot at Adelaide. An outing has been arranged (by kind permission) to visit the new Railcar Depot at Adelaide in Belfast. (Booking Form)
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IRRS Journal 179
October 2012

NEWS
*Service Cuts* In August, newspapers reported that IÉ had applied to the NTA to cut frequencies of InterCity services to/from Dublin. Eight InterCity journeys out of one hundred and sixty mere mentioned. The context was that the number of rail passengers has dropped by 25% over the last five years due to recession and to faster and cheaper services on the new motorway network. IÉ said “Where there are trains that are greatly under-utilised, it may be necessary for us to amend the schedules accordingly. Regarding the Dublin-Sligo line IÉ said "The busiest times daily are the commuting focused hours (morning arrivals into Dublin, afternoon/ early evening departures from Dublin), and Friday afternoon (Dublin-Sligo) and Sunday afternoon (Sligo-Dublin), would be the busiest times of the week. Journeys beyond the commuter belt on the 19:05 would be very low, indicating a limited demand for late evening services at present." IÉ said 1.23m passenger journeys were made on the line in 2011 and that "year-to-date 2012 sees demand largely unchanged”. Read More	*071-Class* Body rebuilding work continues on 087 in Inchicore. Read More *201-Class* In September, 228 was undergoing its 4-yearly overhaul. 223 was a bout to have its 2-yearly overhaul finished. Read More New 3-car 22000-Class ICRs On Friday 17 August, 3-car sets 22010 and 22011 were delivered to Dublin Port. They remained in Dublin Port until hauled to Heuston Station by 082 the following Tuesday. The sets had been returned to Rotem following discovery of corrosion damage caused by contaminants aboard the ship delivering them to Dublin 4 years earlier. Set 22060 entered traffic on Thursday 12 July and 22061 entered service on Wednesday 18 July. This left 3-car sets 22059, 22010 and 22011 to enter service at time of going to press. Read More IMPORTANT NOTICE TO MEMBERS - PayPal You may now pay your annual subscription to the IRRS through PayPal. Should you wish to to use this facility simply send your email address to membership@irrs.ie	2700-Class The following sets had been withdrawn from traffic and stored by Monday 25 June: 2701/02, 2703/04, 2705/06, 2709/10, 2713/14, 2717/18, 2721/20, 2723/26, 2753 and 2609/2716. This left the following sets available for service: 2707/08, 2711/12, 2715/24, 2719/22 and 2751. These final members of the class were withdrawn from traffic and stored after three sets (2711/12, 2715/24, 2719/22) had been retained for the Volvo Ocean Boat Race and Galway Race Festival in July and early August 2012. The last passenger working of the class was on Friday 10 August. Read More 80-class In advance of the leaf fall season NIR’s Sandite train operated crew training and trial runs on the Larne line, commencing with York Rd-Whitehead and return on Tuesday 11 September. The train consists of 8090 + 8097 + 8752 + 8094, the same vehicles as finished last year’s operations. Spray equipment is located in 8097, which is painted all-over yellow Read More	450-class Members of the class remained stored as noted in JOURNAL 178. Read More 3000-class Set usage has gone down with the introduction of more 4000-class sets. Spare sets are regularly stored at Adelaide but are rotated into and out of service to keep them fully available. Read More 4000-class The final set, 4020, was delivered to Belfast on Tuesday 3 July and entered service on Monday 3 September. Set 4016 entered service on Monday 30 July and set 4017 on Tuesday 28 August. The final sets were cleared for service in August, with sets 4018 and 4019 entering service on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 September respectively.Read More Enterprise Sets The first of the Mk III Electric Generator Vans (EGV) providing light, heat and power supplies to De Dietrich carriages entered service on Monday 10 September when 89604 (formerly 7604, full European Vehicle Number (EVN) 55-60-89-89604-8) was included in the consist of the 06:50 Belfast-Dublin. It is anticipated that the reliability of locomotives will improve as they will not have to operate the engine continuously at full speed of 900rpm to provide 50Hz electricity (Head End Power) regardless of locomotive speed. Read More

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