I find it amazing that we use many different variants of train rather than just one main model, out here in the country they use the intercity trains. And I heard they got 12 or so new trains in from Germany about a week ago.
Well on the Galway to Dublin they use new trains but on Galway to limerick they use an older one then everywhere else it’s very old ones and a bit of the newer ones
Excellent video of a variety of Irish trains, locations and weather! Good capture of the Belmond Grand Hibernian at Clara. Like the soothing background music which is not too loud and intrusive. Thanks for posting.
Tho the DD Enterprise set is now about 1/2 way thru its design life, having already had a refurbishment. In the end, electrification on the main Dublin Belfast line, will have to be considered.
Class video, im trying to learn the different types of trains Irish Rail have, is there anywhere online where I can learn the names of them by any chance?
Historically Irish rail did not receive the level of investment that railways in Poland received , in the UK where I live this is also much the same, hence no domestic high speed rail to date except for Hs1. As I pointed out the nations population makes a difference to the potential viability of any service against financial investment Ireland’s population is very low and the potential for profit very low.
Hi Keith. Yes you're right about the population of Ireland. However, if we look at the statistics, Irish rail carried about 45 million people in 2017 while PKP Intercity (Polish Rail) carried about 42 in the same year. While Irish population is about 4.8M and Polish population is about 38M, I think the viability of the service is self explanatory?
And funny enough if it wasn't for the Brits we'd have no railway at all, the Dumb Irish Government ripped out a good tram system in the 1960s the British installed back in what, the early 1900's maybe ? and spent billions putting in a new one 15 years ago. If Public transport is good enough People will use it but it needs to go to the offices and industrial areas, if it was good enough we wouldn't have the sheer gridlock we have on our roads today but of course another issue with public transport is that little investment was made to create jobs outside of Dublin so too many people flood the roads all to head to Dublin in the mornings and out in the evenings. But apart from Population GDP calculates wealth from companies and is a poor way to determine a countries wealth, the Big Multinationals do provide jobs but the Irish People get saddled with the majority of the tax.
@@o00scorpion00o Irish owned railway companies built the railway system here not the British. The tramways were dismantled in Ireland for the same reasons they were dismantled everywhere else during that period. London was completely absent of trams after 1952 until the turn of the century.
Thanks for posting the video! Train is my favourite mode of transport just after an airplane and I've also been traveling on a train quite a lot lately especially between Limerick and Dublin. My only question is, why aren't most of the lines in Ireland electrified?
@@keithewins992 from where I am (Poland) most of the tracks are electrified. If we take GDP as the measure of wealth and development then Ireland beats Poland by miles. Hardly the economic reasons are to blame?
Unfortunately politicians in Ireland have had a blinkered view of rail travel for many years, investing instead in new roads and motorways. For example, in 1958 they closed what would have been a very profitable line. This was the line from Harcourt Street in Dublin city centre to Bray. It was a double track line that went right through the south Dublin suburbs. Anyone with even a little foresight would have at least kept the route intact but no, roads were the way to go. So there was little chance of electrification while this mindset existed. And also, as already mentioned, the population is small compared to most European countries. Freight services are sparse. In recent years however there has been a large increase in passenger traffic, so I think the government is at last taking notice. A new line to Dublin Airport is planned and also new trains are to be purchased but I fear that this may all be put on hold due to the upcoming economic fallout from the Corona Virus pandemic. Nice video, by the way.
@@kacperpawlowski1149 GDP is not a way to calculate a countries wealth as it includes the wealth of companies and they pay very little tax in Ireland especially the big multinationals, now if they were taxed like they should be then maybe we could do a lot more for our public infrastructure which is very bad. The Irish Government tax the working people hard and house prices and rent is sky high, fuel taxes etc. Not so wealthy people in Ireland when you see how People have to struggle today to put food on the table and pay bills after they pay a mortgage or rent + Child Care, that's even if both Parents can afford to work. I know people who have a pre pay electric meter to stop their electric company sending a big bill, if they have no money for the meter they have no electricity but they have more money for food and rent, there are lots of people with the same system for their Gas heating yet the Government want to keep increasing taxes on energy to combat Climate change while people go cold and sit in the dark. Welcome to Ireland 2021!
Excellent film shot in 2019, showing how well restored and maintained stations in Ireland are now. Please go back to Ireland this summer 2022 now that the covid restrictions of the 2020 and 2021 summers have gone and film again... traffic should be back to pre-2020 levels and people aren't wearing masks any more... The Enterprise sets and locomotives have a special livery and branding with no distinction between IR and NIR sets, and no Irish language used. The previous generation Enterprise sets and locos differed between IR- and NIR-owned although both railways used the same GM locomotive type, with minor differences.
I have just released a new video” A look at Irish railways, May 2022” which was posted on UA-cam on the 18th of June. It was great to come back to Ireland. I hope you enjoy it as much as my previous one.
An interesting statistic, but Poland carries a lot of freight traffic. Ireland has very little freight,only three or four at the very most on any weekday. Electrification would be a huge investment that the Irish government is not in a position to take especially after spending heavily on motorways in recent years. I have enjoyed our interesting debate.
Jessica Tracey it’s a two car diesel unit built by Tokyo car co. And forms the branch train that runs to and from Balina to connect with the mainline trains.
It is an Irish rail mainline express on the Dublin Cork main line. The leading vehicle is a Caf built driving van trailer which leads the train in the Dublin direction. A 200 class General Motors locomotive is pushing from the rear
Simply because the traffic volumes do not justify it. Nothing to do with any government policy or the economy. We've hardly any rail freight, for example.
Tokyo car co. Two car sets,new in the 1980sat about the same time as the British 150s. They are based at Limerick and Cork and operate local trains out of Cork and secondary services from Limerick.
@@keithewins992 thanks Keith! It did strike me that the first one looked very similar to the DARTs we got in the mid 1980s, and I think they were from Tokyu Car Co as well. What about the very streamlined-looking one at 7:15?
Keith Ewins they are class 2800s at 6:50 and don’t operate out of Cork they only operate out of limerick and the train at 7:15 is pushed/hauled by a 201 not 200
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The Irish Rail network is generally rural and single track (except Cork line and ex GNR) so Dublin Connolly is Ireland's busiest location
I find it amazing that we use many different variants of train rather than just one main model, out here in the country they use the intercity trains. And I heard they got 12 or so new trains in from Germany about a week ago.
What Irish trains would be coming from Germany?
Well on the Galway to Dublin they use new trains but on Galway to limerick they use an older one then everywhere else it’s very old ones and a bit of the newer ones
The first generation DART EMUs were manufactured by Linke Hoffmann Busch in Germany.
I definitely think the Mark 4 loco looks the best of them all. Not sure about that livery tho.....maybe a dark green ordark blue would look better
Excellent video of a variety of Irish trains, locations and weather! Good capture of the Belmond Grand Hibernian at Clara. Like the soothing background music which is not too loud and intrusive. Thanks for posting.
The De Deitrich sets are a class of their own. Beautiful.
Tho the DD Enterprise set is now about 1/2 way thru its design life, having already had a refurbishment. In the end, electrification on the main Dublin Belfast line, will have to be considered.
Amazing Collection scenes Keith!😁 Keep up the good work!
Great Video all round, well done, thanks for posting
Balls in hand I agree with you
Cool, great compilation! 🚄🚅🔝👋
That was a fantastic video. Really enjoyed it
Thank you for your kind remarks , so glad you enjoyed it.
Enjoyable video. Thanks for sharing.
Great footage
13:20 they are still the best sounding Loco's anywhere imho - pure power
Amazing video 👍🏻
I got to say catching a 29000 set with the light green livery hauling the dark green livery set is a nice catch
Balls in hand i have to say this is a great video
Brilliant Collection of Scenes Keith!😃.Especially the Tullamore,Clara,Claremorris and Manulla Junction Scenes!.
Balls in hand I agree with you
@@1r1shoperatorgaming70 bruh. Whats that suppose to mean
Great video !
Balls in hand I agree with you
Good video, thanks for sharing
Great video
AND THANKS FOR THE DUBLIN TRAIN I LOVE IT
I love trains best darragh
I’m ur 600th sub
These trains are sooo different to the ones up here in Scotland!!
@Christian Bridger yeah yeah, now fuck off to a comedy club to tell your jokes elsewhere..
@@thereisnobean8537 I bet comments above you are from same person using alternate accounts.
@@arijitpalit2756 they're bots I think. I've seen them on alot of comments on railway videos and stuff like that..
Nice film!
Balls in hand I agree with you
@@1r1shoperatorgaming70 bruh
Good job keep in touch
Class video, im trying to learn the different types of trains Irish Rail have, is there anywhere online where I can learn the names of them by any chance?
Mark O brien enter Iarnród Éireann into google search. Comes up with a Wikipedia breakdown.
The DART trains in Green livery are very popular around Dublin aren’t they.
well it is the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART)
3:18 100% sounds like a British Rail Class 158
The Irish Rail class 22000 does sound similar to the 158. The 29000 class sounds even more similar.
Historically Irish rail did not receive the level of investment that railways in Poland received , in the UK where I live this is also much the same, hence no domestic high speed rail to date except for Hs1. As I pointed out the nations population makes a difference to the potential viability of any service against financial investment Ireland’s population is very low and the potential for profit very low.
Hi Keith. Yes you're right about the population of Ireland. However, if we look at the statistics, Irish rail carried about 45 million people in 2017 while PKP Intercity (Polish Rail) carried about 42 in the same year. While Irish population is about 4.8M and Polish population is about 38M, I think the viability of the service is self explanatory?
And funny enough if it wasn't for the Brits we'd have no railway at all, the Dumb Irish Government ripped out a good tram system in the 1960s the British installed back in what, the early 1900's maybe ? and spent billions putting in a new one 15 years ago.
If Public transport is good enough People will use it but it needs to go to the offices and industrial areas, if it was good enough we wouldn't have the sheer gridlock we have on our roads today but of course another issue with public transport is that little investment was made to create jobs outside of Dublin so too many people flood the roads all to head to Dublin in the mornings and out in the evenings.
But apart from Population GDP calculates wealth from companies and is a poor way to determine a countries wealth, the Big Multinationals do provide jobs but the Irish People get saddled with the majority of the tax.
@@o00scorpion00o Irish owned railway companies built the railway system here not the British. The tramways were dismantled in Ireland for the same reasons they were dismantled everywhere else during that period. London was completely absent of trams after 1952 until the turn of the century.
Yesssss
Thanks for posting the video! Train is my favourite mode of transport just after an airplane and I've also been traveling on a train quite a lot lately especially between Limerick and Dublin. My only question is, why aren't most of the lines in Ireland electrified?
Sadly the Irish economy linked to the population makes this unaffordable but with new technologies who knows what the future will bring.
@@keithewins992 from where I am (Poland) most of the tracks are electrified. If we take GDP as the measure of wealth and development then Ireland beats Poland by miles. Hardly the economic reasons are to blame?
Balls in hand I agree with you
Unfortunately politicians in Ireland have had a blinkered view of rail travel for many years, investing instead in new roads and motorways. For example, in 1958 they closed what would have been a very profitable line. This was the line from Harcourt Street in Dublin city centre to Bray. It was a double track line that went right through the south Dublin suburbs. Anyone with even a little foresight would have at least kept the route intact but no, roads were the way to go. So there was little chance of electrification while this mindset existed. And also, as already mentioned, the population is small compared to most European countries. Freight services are sparse. In recent years however there has been a large increase in passenger traffic, so I think the government is at last taking notice. A new line to Dublin Airport is planned and also new trains are to be purchased but I fear that this may all be put on hold due to the upcoming economic fallout from the Corona Virus pandemic. Nice video, by the way.
@@kacperpawlowski1149 GDP is not a way to calculate a countries wealth as it includes the wealth of companies and they pay very little tax in Ireland especially the big multinationals, now if they were taxed like they should be then maybe we could do a lot more for our public infrastructure which is very bad.
The Irish Government tax the working people hard and house prices and rent is sky high, fuel taxes etc. Not so wealthy people in Ireland when you see how People have to struggle today to put food on the table and pay bills after they pay a mortgage or rent + Child Care, that's even if both Parents can afford to work. I know people who have a pre pay electric meter to stop their electric company sending a big bill, if they have no money for the meter they have no electricity but they have more money for food and rent, there are lots of people with the same system for their Gas heating yet the Government want to keep increasing taxes on energy to combat Climate change while people go cold and sit in the dark. Welcome to Ireland 2021!
Dataset you live in Dublin and this is craig
Excellent film shot in 2019, showing how well restored and maintained stations in Ireland are now. Please go back to Ireland this summer 2022 now that the covid restrictions of the 2020 and 2021 summers have gone and film again... traffic should be back to pre-2020 levels and people aren't wearing masks any more...
The Enterprise sets and locomotives have a special livery and branding with no distinction between IR and NIR sets, and no Irish language used. The previous generation Enterprise sets and locos differed between IR- and NIR-owned although both railways used the same GM locomotive type, with minor differences.
I have just released a new video” A look at Irish railways, May 2022” which was posted on UA-cam on the 18th of June. It was great to come back to Ireland. I hope you enjoy it as much as my previous one.
Must've been a Thursday in Clara for the BGH to be working Down.
This was posted on my b day lol
The front of the trains has a part which is yellow looks familiar to British trains :/
Yeah that’s why I said it was
What camera do you use? Do you change any of the settings cos the picture comes out great!
I use an I phone and standard Apple editing. They really are great.
@@keithewins992 Which iPhone?
DS Intel I phone 6
An interesting statistic, but Poland carries a lot of freight traffic. Ireland has very little freight,only three or four at the very most on any weekday. Electrification would be a huge investment that the Irish government is not in a position to take especially after spending heavily on motorways in recent years. I have enjoyed our interesting debate.
Thanks Keith. Hopefully with the recent plan to purchase around 600 electric/battery powered units by Irish Rail that might change in the future.
What train type is it at 5:34, it's tiny!
Jessica Tracey it’s a two car diesel unit built by Tokyo car co. And forms the branch train that runs to and from Balina to connect with the mainline trains.
Tokyu 2800 Class. You can tell it apart from a Tokyu 2600 Class by the lack of cab-end corridor connections on the front and rear.
Does anyone ever get a heart attach by at train there so scary
These trains are so strange to me. I'm used to English trains.
7:05 what kind of train is that
It is an Irish rail mainline express on the Dublin Cork main line. The leading vehicle is a Caf built driving van trailer which leads the train in the Dublin direction. A 200 class General Motors locomotive is pushing from the rear
Keith Ewins 201 class not 200
Irish Railway Trains I stand corrected thanks for pointing out my unintentional slip up.
Keith Ewins no bother at all
The front end shown here is a Mk4, the rear is a 201 Locomotive.
6:50 I never saw these trains, are they in the west or something
These units operate the Ballina branch and local services from Limerick and west coast service through to Galway from Limerick.
They are like the second newest trains they are usualy the only ones I ever see
They look like the 2600 without the black cab-end gangways.
Simply because the traffic volumes do not justify it. Nothing to do with any government policy or the economy. We've hardly any rail freight, for example.
5:55
Gosh, thought they would have looked just like Britain’s trains!
Gosh!!You do realise Ireland is not in Britain or British?Why should you think its trains would be like theirs??
i come from ireland!!!!!!
Are the two trains at 6:50 and 7:15 new? I don't remember seeing them before...
Tokyo car co. Two car sets,new in the 1980sat about the same time as the British 150s. They are based at Limerick and Cork and operate local trains out of Cork and secondary services from Limerick.
@@keithewins992 thanks Keith! It did strike me that the first one looked very similar to the DARTs we got in the mid 1980s, and I think they were from Tokyu Car Co as well. What about the very streamlined-looking one at 7:15?
batlin this is a CAF Spanish built driving trailer and train which is hauled or pushed by a GM built 200 class.
@@keithewins992 awesome! I hope to see it in Dublin sometime.
Keith Ewins they are class 2800s at 6:50 and don’t operate out of Cork they only operate out of limerick and the train at 7:15 is pushed/hauled by a 201 not 200
the first train is just ugly