Irish Railway Film Show - "From Cork to Mayo and the Suir Valley" by Joe St Leger/Ciarán Cooney

[@oceanfroggie]

Pure treasure. Thank you. Future generations will also be indebted to Joe St Ledge for his film coverage. Compiling and Digitising this material and saving it to the cloud (KZbin) is excellent.

[@5052Kevin]

As a UK IRRS member who due to geography, never gets to a meeting, this is one of the very few benefits of Covid-19, being able to these fascinating films on-line. Well done to everyone concerned for all the hard work, that no doubt, went into digitising collating and editing the footage and of course the wonderful body of work left to us by Joe St Leger

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks Kevin, appreciate that, glad you enjoyed the films of Joe St Leger., Rgds Ciarán.

[@deldirk7123]

Amazing. Very kind to put this on youtube. I hadn't been able to get to meetings even before the Covid restrictions

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks glad you enjoyed it.

[@Georgeconna32]

unreal stuff there lads. Interesting to see the work involved in transferring these to digital. Fair play to the chap doing this behind the scenes!

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks George, glad you enjoyed it and appreciate those comments, it's a labour of love ;) Rgs Ciarán.

[@RYNT1157]

Great work on this Ciaran it was a great online show. Been able to watch it again now on the big screen on You Tube , fabulous.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks again Tom, glad you could make it to the live show and that you enjoyed it!

[@foggyireland]

Thanks folks. My grandfather was station master in Clonmel during WW2 and my uncle also worked for CIE.

[@patfoley1783]

Very good to see joe what a lovely man👍

[@29AT102Martin]

thanks for sharing joe did a great few clips on the cork-youghal line before it was dismantled during the mid 70.s till its demise in 1988 , great to see d old clips

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks Martin, yes Joe was out for nearly anything unusual on the Youghal line in those days!

[@markwringe2826]

Thank you so much for putting this online. It's the first time I've ever been able to 'attend' an IRRS meeting. The bonus film was fascinating, top and tail steam for motorway construction, what a thought. And I loved the Loughrea footage, having once walked the trackbed.

[@malcolmwillis6157]

This is wonderful. Thank you for all your hard work on this Ciaran.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks Malcolm, appreciate that, glad you enjoyed it! Rgds Ciarán.

[@086DEN]

Great stuff, just letting you know that was the North cabin at Limerick Junction, the man on duty beside Joe was PJ Slattery, a gentleman. The South cabin was red brick

[@RYNT1157]

I was thinking it was him.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

That's great, thanks for letting me know, I've heard of that signalman before and that he was very accommodating for the likes of Joe and other railway photographers.

[@dannyturner774]

Great video.. great variety of freight and locos.. pity it's not like that today🙈

[@martinbitter4162]

Shunting a Ballybrophy. Amazing.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Indeed it used to be a great place for shunting, as a lot of the Limerick traffic was exchanged with those on the Cork main line.

[@MrBO109]

Superb video - Might credit the late and legendary Micheal O'Suilleabhain's Woodbrook at 1:03.

[@paulhopkins4129]

Superb!

[@martinwalsh3228]

The reopening of the Western Rail Corridor would shorten journey times by train would connect Connacht with Ulster too cut down on Pollution, Car Accidents, Traffic Jams & Road Deaths even to have a 24 hour train service in Summer Time & St. Stephen's Day trains.

[@clonSanG]

Brilliant footage I just found it now I live in dungarvan and why the took that line from Waterford to dungarvan and onwards is beyond me much need to take cars off the road would make good revenue btw that bridge is the longest span bridge in Europe still in existence or turn table bridge funny my girlfriend father who is 82 road the train many a time and remember s it fondly and quigly magnesite some great video s of it going around the bay near clonee dungarvan