@@SouthernYard Actually the building in the left of the bridge is Kilsaran Concrete which is still there. I got dropped off at that bridge from a special on the way back from Westport at about 6am one Sunday morning in 1990 I'm guessing 22nd April. I had worked the dining car to Westport the previous Saturday then we hung around Heuston for a special put on for the musical Cats in the Point Depot. Think we left around midnight on the Saturday with a double train that split in Athlone. The Mayo auldwans were gasping for tae and were unforgiving that this trolley boy had already fed & watered the Galway crowd before I could feed and water them. I was actually a military apprentice in the Air Corps and worked my Easter holidays in Irish Rail while living in Baldonnel airbase. For that double Mayo in a day trip I got £25 for 25 hours work. I asked the guard to ask the driver to drop me off at the bridge to walk up to Baldonnel and he obliged. There were old stone steps up from the demolished Lucan South station.
all 18 071s are still around the mk 3 stock was all scrapped in 2010 and 2014. there are about 11 cravens saved and some mk 2d stock was saved by the rpsi. the 141s are still around but most were scrapped and few saved. there is only 2 121s in preservation
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Orange 071s, Cravens and Mk 2 and 3 stock 🎂
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Is that old Adamstown Bridge @06:44 and the site of Lucan South station on the right?
I think so. It’s changed a bit since then around those parts.
@@SouthernYard Actually the building in the left of the bridge is Kilsaran Concrete which is still there.
I got dropped off at that bridge from a special on the way back from Westport at about 6am one Sunday morning in 1990 I'm guessing 22nd April.
I had worked the dining car to Westport the previous Saturday then we hung around Heuston for a special put on for the musical Cats in the Point Depot. Think we left around midnight on the Saturday with a double train that split in Athlone.
The Mayo auldwans were gasping for tae and were unforgiving that this trolley boy had already fed & watered the Galway crowd before I could feed and water them.
I was actually a military apprentice in the Air Corps and worked my Easter holidays in Irish Rail while living in Baldonnel airbase.
For that double Mayo in a day trip I got £25 for 25 hours work.
I asked the guard to ask the driver to drop me off at the bridge to walk up to Baldonnel and he obliged.
There were old stone steps up from the demolished Lucan South station.
Where did all these trains end up?
all 18 071s are still around the mk 3 stock was all scrapped in 2010 and 2014. there are about 11 cravens saved and some mk 2d stock was saved by the rpsi. the 141s are still around but most were scrapped and few saved. there is only 2 121s in preservation