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In July 1948, former Great Western Railway general manager James Milne was appointed by the Irish government to review rail, road and canal transport in the country. Milne was supported by three assistants and three further technical assessors; Oliver Bulleid, then still Chief Mechanical Engineer of British Railways Southern Region , was ...
The coaches ran on 5 ft 3 in gauge versions of British Rail's BT22 Air Suspension bogie, [18] and were air-braked. [19] The Irish Mark 3 coaches were similar, but not identical, to their British counterparts. They had a different electrical system (220/380V, 50 Hz) and were the first Mark 3's to be fitted with automatic swing-plug doors.
1 County Donegal Railways: 1906–1956 10 1932–1959 12 1934–1959 Foyle Valley Railway: Derry 15 1936–1959 Donegal Railway Heritage Centre: Donegal 18 1940–1959 Fintown Railway: Fintown 19 1951–1959 Isle of Man Railway: Isle of Man: 20 712 CIÉ 1962–2005 Irish Traction Group: Downpatrick 713 Downpatrick & Co. Down Railway 1498: 76773 ...
Nos 1 to 23 were from Dublin and Drogheda Railway; Nos. 24 to 41 from the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway; Nos. 43 to circa 78 from the Irish North Western Railway and Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway; Numbers in the eighties from the Newry and Armagh Railway and nos. 100 to 141 from the Ulster Railway. [5]
The Dublin–Cork Main Line is the main InterCity railway route in Ireland between Dublin Heuston and Cork Kent. In 2018, 3.46 million passengers travelled on the line, a 10% increase from 2017 figures. [1]
The first centrepiece of the museum was a Metropolitan-Vickers A Class locomotive, introduced in 1955 by Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) as part of the "dieselisation" programme that helped eliminate steam on Irish railways by April 1963, and was acquired in 1994.
A variety of small classes of diesel locomotives have operated on railways in Northern Ireland. From 2001, most items of rolling stock in use on NIR had 8000 added to their number so as to be part of the Translink number series, which also incorporates their road vehicles. Belfast and County Down Railway (1848–1948) 2; 28 (later used by NCC)
Killorglin To Valentia Railway Part 2. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021 – via YouTube. Murray, K. A.; McNeill, D. B. (1976). The Great Southern & Western Railway. Irish Railway Record Society. ISBN 0-904078-05-1. OCLC 3069424. O'Sullivan, Joan (2010). The railway line from Farranfore to Valentia harbour in Co Kerry. RTÉ.