IRRS Diesel Railtour @ Cork, Cobh & Midleton (20-7-2013)

[@itfcsam]

Superb collection of clips. I was on that yesterday - my first visit to.Ireland. Glad there are some good videos of the train passing

[@colmanboylan9514]

Great footage and that noise is so musical here with a new paint job too

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks Colman 👍

[@turkeygeorge401]

I was also on that. Was a great tour. Traveled from South wales to do it! A bit different to the usual 37 tours I do in the UK

[@EuropeanRailChannel]

Great videos! It was a really great railtour.

[@TransitWorld]

Great Video. I was in Midleton when you were taking the shot of 071 approaching.

[@irishrailtrains]

Excellent video man, I love the way it got everyone excited at Midelton and Cork.

[@Johndeereman2k11]

It was the first railtour to Midleton since 1984 and its the first loco hauled passenger train since 1988!!

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks DB! You should have popped over and said hi, would have been nice to meet you :)

[@Johndeereman2k11]

SO you were the person on the top of the Midleton platform with the tripod!

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks for that :) The silver/black/yellow livery was introduced in late 2007, the grey livery is now slowly replacing that. Only a handful of 071s have been repainted so far.

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks, it was indeed, very well organised :)

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks for that Peter, I tried to get in as many spots as possible whilst keeping an eye on time. Was lucky catching it at Rathpeacon, missed a turn in the city & the one-way system did it's best to screw me up :/ And as for the last comment, coming from a married man, disgraceful!! :D

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks m8 & hope you enjoyed yourself, was a nice day out :)

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it, seemed everyone had a great time :)

[@finnyusIRL]

Absolutely fantastic video !

[@TheIrishMainline]

Glad you liked it Finbarr! Was a fun day out :)

[@TransitWorld]

Didn't notice you at the time with all the people taking photos, sorry about that. Nice one and liked :)

[@franburke]

Great video man!

[@irishtrainsliftvids]

Nice video Danny, got that myself at Heuston when it ran !

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks! I saw your vid alright :)

[@Mattslade6024]

great vid. iv never been to ireland. the train look very different to the one by me in south wales

[@TheIrishMainline]

Glad you enjoyed yourself, there's a few steam tours coming up in August, you'd be more than welcome to pop over for them :)

[@Johndeereman2k11]

I would have liked to meet up with you and DB too! Midleton is my local train station.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Great view 4:12. That battleship grey livery looks quite impressive, although I don't know why they need to use that complicated Euro-number system.

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks. Even the Cravens have those riduculous numbers on show. Not likely to see either wandering around the UK or eastern European networks anytime soon so all a bit pointless! :P

[@steveban6503]

Looks like a scaled down version of our N Class. Reckon a 071 would sound awesome with a 5 - Chime horn

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks Fran :)

[@irishrailtrains]

Oh my, its must be soo rare to see a light engine in Midelton.

[@martinwalsh3228]

Closed railway lines in Co, Cork should be reopened to stop Pollution, Car Accidents, Road Deaths & Pollution.

[@Johndeereman2k11]

VERY RARE because Midleton is a dead end station. Only times locos come to midleton is fro the sperry and the weedsprayer.

[@Johndeereman2k11]

Hopefully I was at the bottom of Platform 1 in Midleton and I was there for a while I should have came up!

[@TheIrishMainline]

No prob m8, might see you again sometime :)

[@TheIrishMainline]

Thanks Matt, would be worth your while to come over for a railtour. Normal day to day passenger services are now railcar (DMU) dominated except for a bit of loco haulage on the Dublin - Cork route.

[@Bludore]

Hi. Nice filming. Is that a new livery for the class 071's?

[@TheIrishMainline]

Cool, look forward to seeing it :)

[@TheIrishMainline]

Hehe thanks! You'd never know Ken Fox was driving would you? :D

[@TheIrishMainline]

I'm not familiar with that loco m8, where does it run?

[@dashcamdude6690]

It a shame the run around points at cobh were all ripped up

[@irishrailtrains]

Ah well then its very rare, Mildenton reminds me of the Howth Branch, you barely see any light engines only day.

[@TheIrishMainline]

Cool, might see you another time m8 :)

[@Johndeereman2k11]

Foxer was flat out!! :D

[@Johndeereman2k11]

@ 4:10 onwards that was EPIC :D

[@csalem]

Nice video

[@TheIrishMainline]

Glad you enjoyed it thanks.

[@TheIrishMainline]

lol well that's one way of putting it I suppose :)

[@TheIrishMainline]

T'was indeed :D

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

A blue train in Cork?? What the feck!! What next ... a Black and Tan one???? I’m joking!! 🤭😊😉