JOURNAL
170 October 2009
Contents |
Accident
at Church Road, North Wall, 10th November 1944
John O'Meara |
Glounthaune - Midleton Re-opening
Oliver
Doyle |
Railcar
Stopping Places
Richard Maund |
The
Class 22000 Intercity Railcars
Peter Smyth |
| Irish
Railway News |
| 2010 |
Dublin
Programme |
| 11th
February |
A
History of the Shannon Bridge at Drumsna
Oliver Doyle |
| 25th
February |
The
Stolen Railway
Joe Coleman |
| 11th
March |
Annual
Film Show
Tony Price & Liam Mooney |
|
|
| 2010 |
Outings |
| 17th
March |
Outing
to Inspect the New Drumsna bridge
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| 24th
April |
Outing
to Western Corridor Railway
Athenry to Ennis |
| 15th
May |
Outing
to the Lartigue Monorail in Listowel. |
| 19th
Jun |
Outing
to the
Steam
Museum
in Straffan |
| 2nd
Aug |
Visit to
York Road
and Fortwilliam Depots on the N.I.
Network. |
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ROLLING
STOCK
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Mk
III
;
The final
scheduled locomotive hauled working of the 10:35 Athlone-Westport and
14:25 Westport-Dublin took place on Sunday 12 July using 226 + 6 Mk III +
EGV. 6-car ICR 22042 worked the link the following Sunday.
More
201-Class
227 and 228 were in York Rd Depot in August for fitting of TPWS. With
201-205 and 210-213 in storage in Inchicore, 214 was the sole remaining
orange liveried 201-class in service during the summer, but it was also
stored by 21 August..More
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INFRASTRUCTURE
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Portarlington-Athlone
A new
replacement turnout was installed at the Dublin end of Geashill on Sunday
9 August.
Limerick-Ballybrophy
Re-laying with CWR on concrete sleepers took place in June and July
working east from Kilmastulla. During Monday-Friday possessions the 10:10
Ballybrophy-Limerick was substituted by bus. As re-laying progressed the
points for Silvermines Junction were removed and replaced by plain track
from 31 July.
Limerick-Waterford In
July and August, re-laying with CWR on concrete sleepers took place
between MP70-71 and
MP723/4-733/4
with a view to closing gaps in CWR between MP70 and Dunkitt Viaduct. About
three-quarters of the Limerick Junction-Waterford line has now been
re-laid with CWR.
Waterford
On
9 August the relatively new and unused manganese turnout to the New Ross
branch at Abbey Junction was taken out for use elsewhere. Abbey Junction
ground frame was also taken out of use. The branch is now disconnected.
The connection to Gouldings sidings at Waterford West was also removed on
9 August. More
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| DIESEL
RAILCARS
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22000-Class
Deliveries
6-car
standard-class ICR set 22044 was delivered to Waterford Belview on Friday
12 June. 6-car standard class set
22045, which is the last set of the original 183 vehicle order, was
delivered to Belview Port, Waterford, on Thursday 20 August 2009.
More
22000-Class Workings
The final 6-car ICR fitted with Premier Class seating, 22040, entered
traffic on Thursday 21 May working the 17:25 Dublin-Limerick.
On Friday 29 May, the second Mallow-Tralee link was converted to a 3-car
ICR link. This left the 22:00 Cork-Tralee and 05:25 Tralee-Cork as the
only links worked by 2600/2700-class railcars.
.More
22000-Class Routes The
class is now cleared to operate Ballybrophy-Killonan Junction,
Limerick-Ennis and Cork-Cobh/Midleton.More
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