The 071's sounded quite different back then (the NIR 111's still sound the same), there was some mod to the prime mover made in the 1990s (645 E3??). Great bit of video Tom.
Is engine/dynamic braking the reason the locomotive revs up just as it is stopping? Great video, always loved travelling from Cork to Dublin with a 071 hauling.
No dynamic braking but when the brake application goes down to around 4 bar air brake or 10 inches of vacuum brake the engine revs up to speed up the compressor/ exhauster to realease the brake and charge the main res.
These trains are class act
God the amount of times I was in that South cabin
The 071's sounded quite different back then (the NIR 111's still sound the same), there was some mod to the prime mover made in the 1990s (645 E3??). Great bit of video Tom.
Great video Tom
your footage is unreal for 1990, that must have been an expensive camera.
It was a bit , it was a JVC GR 60 VHS-C.
@@RYNT1157 wasn't that Docs camera in back to the future?
Is engine/dynamic braking the reason the locomotive revs up just as it is stopping? Great video, always loved travelling from Cork to Dublin with a 071 hauling.
No dynamic braking but when the brake application goes down to around 4 bar air brake or 10 inches of vacuum brake the engine revs up to speed up the compressor/ exhauster to realease the brake and charge the main res.
@@RYNT1157 Ah that makes sense, thanks a million for explaining that to me, a mystery solved.
The turbo chargers were changed to different type in the 80s - 90s.
A Heuston to Limerick service via Limerick Jct , Friday only I think at the time.
Tom what would you have worked back down after working that 1845 up
13:20 to Cork next day.
9:12 - did some Cravens wear the IR four-rail logo?
That repull had a few of them confused... Why was that? Was plat 3 shorter?
Yes it was .
@@RYNT1157 thanks Tom... Love the videos.
what service is the train with the two 121s at Lim Jct?
Where was that siding located at 5 mins into the video?
Rathpeacon about 3 miles out , all are gone now.
Ah yes, thanks for the reply Tom