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Irish railways locomotives. The GSR renumbered all the broad gauge locomotives into one series with the former Great Southern and Western Railway locomotives retaining their old number. The Ulster Transport Authority, which controlled the railways in Northern Ireland between 1948 and 1966, replaced steam haulage on passenger trains with diesel multiple units, but had only two diesel shunting locomotives, which meant a continued role for steam on freight work. Photographs and information on Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail Locomotives. Down Railway. The two locomotives were built by Beyer, Peacock and Company at their Gorton Foundry in Manchester. Their official name is “Intercity Railcar” and they were built to replace loco-hauled trains. On account of the risk of damage when new (during the Irish Civil War The Córas Iompair Éireann 121 Class was a railway locomotive which was manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. Later advanced steam locomotives were built between 1930s right until the 1940s, these mainly been constructed by the Great Northern and LMS Northern Counties Committee railway companies. 1 long tons; 120. A. The principal operators of main line steam trains in Ireland are the RPSI, and those run at the preserved Downpatrick & Co. 862 tonnes (107. 0 short tons) and have a maximum speed of 102 mph The Córas Iompair Éireann / Iarnród Éireann 071 Class or Northern Ireland Railways 110 Class or Serbian Railways JŽ series 666 is a General Motors Electro-Motive Division EMD JT22CW series diesel–electric locomotive used in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Serbia. The Córas Iompair Éireann 001 Class locomotive was manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers at their Dukinfield Works in Manchester. They are model type JT42HCW, fitted with an EMD 12-710G3B engine of 3,200 hp (2,400 kW), weigh 108. J. Whitehead Signal Box The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) is an Irish railway preservation group which . Our Locomotives power the MKIV & Enterprise InterCity trains and are used to haul freight and permanent way trains during track renewals and maintenance. The GSR had two parallel classification systems – a numerical system which was the lowest number of a locomotive GSR Class 800 "Maeve" wheel and nameplate The Great Southern Railways Class 800 steam locomotives were built principally for express passenger work on the Dublin to Cork main line of that company. The railways wholly in the Irish Free State were merged into one private company — Great Southern Railways — in 1925. As well as a fleet of diesels, it operates three of the nineteen remaining steam locomotives. In 2005, Irish Rail ordered a new type of diesel multiple units for intercity service that was designated class 22000. The Dublin and South Eastern Railway 15 and 16 were a pair of 2-6-0 steam locomotives which were built for the heavy goods (freight) traffic on the Dublin to Wexford main line of the Dublin and South Eastern Railway (DSER). These locomotives were in regular service on the Irish railway network until 2002, with the last two remaining in service until early 2008. The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland was formed in 1964 to preserve Irish steam locomotives, carriages and rolling stock and to operate them on the Irish railway network for everyone to see, appreciate, enjoy and travel on. Beaumont, preparing the drawings. These locomotives were designed under the supervision of E. The 001 Class locomotive was the backbone of mainline passenger and freight train services on the Irish railway network for forty years from 1955 until the mid-1990s when they were replaced by the new 201 Class. C. The Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) / Northern Ireland Railways 201 Class locomotives are the newest and most powerful diesel locomotives operating in Ireland and were built between 1994 and 1995 by General Motors Diesel. Diesel locomotives of Ireland Although prototype diesel locomotives ran in Britain before World War II, the railways of both the Republic and Northern Ireland changed over much more rapidly from steam to diesel traction than those in Britain, due to the island's limited coal reserves and (in the Republic) an ageing steam locomotive fleet. The only preserved 5ft 3in line in the whole of Ireland is the Downpatrick and County Down Railway (DCDR) which utilises around three miles of the ex- BCDR Belfast to Newcastle route. Bredin with his Chief Draughtsman, H. sn h8x fhu sef uhg j6 dzkq urbs bpv uyy