CIÉ - Passenger + Freight trains @ Mallow - Waterford (1967)

[@klingklangwerk3319]

Wonderful video of bygone days. The new and streamlined trains are not as nostalgic as these old diesels and passenger trains. Love these. The video is very much appreciated

[@mairesavage6815]

Beautiful tribute to the great Generation that came before us😢🎉@paddy sullivan 📼 1990s Cork

[@winterishere9828]

all gone, so sad

[@atlanticcoastexpress]

Marvellous! What an incredible debt we owe to the cine film enthusiasts who recorded this for us! The film was very expensive and (in my old 8mm sound camera anyway) I seem to remember that the reel of film just about managed to record four minutes of 'action'. Many thanks to the original camera operator...you've helped to preserve memories of this lost line that is now mostly turned in to a footpath/cycle way. Unfortunately, I can't remember the ride on the train I had with my father in the 1950s on the way to visit relatives via Rosslare and Waterford to Mallow as I was only five...but this film makes up for it. Thank you. Rob.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks very much Rob for that lovely comment, glad you liked the film.

[@RYNT1157]

Great Film by the late Tony Price. Both Tony and Joe St Leger have left a legacy of rail scenes now gone. It was great to know both of them and projected their films at the Cork Area IRRS. I miss that now.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Thanks Tom, both Joe and Tony, huge amount of time and effort they put into recording the everyday scenes which we now cherish.

[@matthewschildt6199]

Thank you so much for using my music. All the best - Matthew Schildt

[@dannyoconnor824]

It’s a beautiful piece Matthew!

[@brennocksllp1270]

My Dad came from Dungarvan. I have happy childhood holiday memories of seeing this line in action.

[@myscene2010]

Thank you for sharing. Great record of the sadly lost Mallow Waterford Railway line. The route would have been a fabulous greenway.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

+myscene2010 thanks, it was wonderfully scenic route indeed, part of it (Dungarvan-Waterford) is now the Deise Greenway for cyclists.

[@bcoffey]

Indeed and I have cycled the section from Dungarvan to the tunnel at Ballyvoyle. It's becoming a hugely popular amenity with little but word of mouth promoting it.

[@clontarfer]

Thanks Ciaran of IRRS for doing all this.

[@alanbennett2672]

fantastic video & great music also Matthew ! thanks for sharing.

[@RYNT1157]

Projected that film many times for Tony at the munster area IRRS meetings a few times.There is another part of it which I hope will be shown , it was filmed from the cab of A9 on a goods into Waterford the driver was Harry Acheson Waterford.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

+Tom Ryan Thanks Tom for that info, Tony's Dungarvan-Waterford cab ride on locomotive A9 will be up soon, so I can add that detail, hopefully after the next upload which is another IRRS steam-era tour, just keep the variety :)

[@pauljohnston6790]

Great piece of film, thanks for sharing,

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

+Paul Johnston Thanks, glad you liked it.

[@michaelfaulkner8959]

GREAT TO SEE THIS VERY INTERESTING FOOTAGE OF THE WATERFORD TO MALLOW LINE,THANKS FOR SHARING.

[@irishrailtrains]

Brilliant footage!

[@tomfitzpatrick7335]

I don't like seeing those tracks gone

[@matthewschildt6199]

Thanks for using my music. Best - Matthew Schildt

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Beautiful music thanks Matthew, I see you have other tracks too which I must look into.

[@anotherluckyone]

Music sounds great. Thank you.!

[@manusmacgearailt667]

Fair play to you, I’m assuming you composed it all? If you wouldn’t mind do you have a link to sheet music for that piece, I would love to learn it on piano - it has a dreamy, jazzy feel to it, something you could play at an old fashioned bar or jazz music club....

[@matthewschildt6199]

@@manusmacgearailt667 Thank you and glad you like the music. This is a track called "Dusk, Central Park" from my album Open Spaces. I do not have sheet music for it, unfortunately, though I may have the chords somewhere if that would be helpful.

[@manusmacgearailt667]

Matthew Schildt That would be cool, do you just improvise the melody based on a variation of repeated themes and chord progressions then?

[@S24W2]

There was a signal post not far from the red iron bridge, on the south side, I used to climb the ladder as a child, my father used to tell me 'the fat controller' lived in the what is actually the lamp! Lol. How naive children can be! I went up recently to see if the signal post was still there but sadly its gone along with the line!

[@ado75]

Excellent archive film

[@michaelfaulkner8959]

Great Footage Of The Waterford To Mallow Line Well Done To Tony Price in Doing This Film on The Railway.

[@caffjohn]

Looks like the Metro-vick @ 6:10 is getting brought home in disgrace... The GM re-engine was a great decision, I'd say it was expensive especially when GM made CIE use their generator sets.

[@martinwalsh3228]

No more closed railway lines should be turned into greenways to should be reopened to trains.

[@ewanduffy]

5:42 - is that a generator van at the front of the train or a short passenger carriage?

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

It's one of the CIE built 4-wheel heating/luggage vans.

[@ShamrockHomes]

could i use some of this video and add drone video of it today. a little comparison.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

That would be fine Daithí, just please credit the IRRS video accordingly if used.

[@manusmacgearailt667]

What’s the name of the piano music in the background? I searched the artist you put in the description but found no jazz/dreamy piano solo such as this.

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

I have just checked the audio applied to the video, which was selected at the time from KZbin's Audio Library, but it says it is no longer available, sorry I do no any more about the artist.

[@manusmacgearailt667]

Irish Railway Record Society Thanks for checking, it’s shame it’s no longer available since it was a truly beautiful piece.

[@matthewschildt6199]

Hello - glad you like the music! This is a track of mine called "Dusk, Central Park" from my album Open Spaces. Thanks and all the best, Matthew Schildt

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

@@matthewschildt6199 Thanks Matthew, will be checking that out, likewise have always felf your music is people's most favourite on this particular video.

[@BIGJAFFA80]

A double header @ 6.14

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

It may have been a failure as sorts(!), it was an unusual formation of a Sulzer and a C Class locomotive (most unreliable).

[@garyd862]

Did they have to turn the 121s around to do the return?

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Yes they were nearly always turned for return journeys.

[@garyd862]

Irish Railway Record Society I'd say turntables were more commonplace back then!

[@IrishRailwayRecordSociety]

Yes originally they planned to remove all the turntables when the diesels came but then they ended up retaining them to specially turn the 121 Class locomotives!

[@garyd862]

Irish Railway Record Society cheers for the insight, always had me wondering!