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Tamping machine

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 21 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Barretstown (or Barrettstown) is in Kildare?
  • O Mac said:
    The machine would have held the track up while a series of vibrating prongs were lowered to rattled the ballast/stones under the sleepers. And if its not too early here's a YouTube of the going's on. youtu.be/j60braEk5c8?t=1m15s
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The line is still twin tracked, and still very straight near Barretstown, Co. Kildare, if that is where we are.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Apparently for packing stones under railway sleepers. A ganger in the signal maintenance department of the then C.I.E. was killed at Dundrum Station in Tipperary when a tamping machine was reversing, and the man was inspecting pins in the sleepers. (Nenagh Guardian, 21 April 1962) In 1966, British Railways planned to save £5 million every year by replacing pick-and-shovel gangs (reducing line maintenance staff from 23,000 to 16,000) with Tamping Machines. They were made by Rolls-Royce at their Shrewsbury factory. Theirs was called the Duomatic Levelling and Tamping Machine. (Irish Press, 1 September 1966) Could ours be a Rolls-Royce model?
  • derangedlemur said:
    I think the device might be following it, not preceeding it. I'd guess from the three optical instruments on it that it's checking the camber.

Down and Out in Longford

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  • 32 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    12 March 1974 was a Tuesday ... not a Good News Day for A36R
  • beachcomber australia said:
    It happened on 27 February, a while before. Details here - irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/2432-longford-derailment/

    "... Fortunately there were no major injuries largely due to there being no passengers in the two carriages that went down the embankment. Only the driver was removed to hospital, for precautionary reasons. One passenger received medical attention at Longford station but was fit enough to continue their journey to Dublin. ... "
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "josefstadt" on the above site has a few colour photos of the recovery operation. Can anyone spot Mr O'Dea in his photos?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Date pre 4/6 May, according to
    “A36R, which had come to rest in a very awkward position, was not recovered until the weekend of 4 / 5 May, by which time a large amount of the locomotive’s brass and copper had been removed by persons from a local ‘caravan park’!
  • Foxglove said:
    .... resting...not sleeping

Peelers and horse apples at the Kings Bridge

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 18 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Monday 10 April happened in 1882, 1893, 1899, 1905, 1911 etc. Guessing 1893 from the look of it ...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Renamed Dublin Heuston 10/04/1966
  • O Mac said:
    There was something going on that day as this other, a lot busier, photograph shows four DMP men out in the road. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000067437
  • John Spooner said:
    beachcomber australia In 1899 the prices for the special passenger train were 7s (first or second class) and 2s 6d (third class) (Freeman's Journal - Saturday 01 April 1899) In 1893 the races were later in April (24th, 25th, 26th)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    JS presscuttings Yes; it says "1899" on the Killarney poster!