Brilliant video. It's sad to see all signal boxes empty today... My late father would have loved to have seen that footage as he worked with CIE all his life...
Great video, my late father Jack Shanley worked in this signal cabin and number 2 cabin on the Galway loop. Mullingar station is now sadly a shadow of its former glory. The Galway platform now derelict. Let us remember all those who worked at Mullingar station, who gave their working life to CIE, including my grandfather Edward Purcell, my uncle Matthew Purcell. RIP to them all. Best Regards Valentine Shanley
Very sad to see the waste that is the Mullingar to Athlone greenway. Should never have been tarmaced over. Mullingar was once a fine junction station. It’s sad to see the dereliction on the Galway side.
Brilliant video. The signalman is PJ Ballesty. Many the evening I spent with PJ back in 2002. Your video captured an interesting feature of the electric token block system(ETS). At 3:23 you can see PJ opening a lock with a key on lever No58. 58 was the starting signal towards Mostrim, now Edgeworthstown. The key is locked in the token instrument and is released when Mostrim releases a staff to Mullingar. This was a safety feature that prevented a signalman from clearing the starting signal without first getting the permission from the signalman in advance. At 11:05 you can see PJ put back No2, advance starting signal to Killucan, lock it normal in the frame, remove the key and then place it in the Killucan token instrument before giving train entering section, 2 bells. Incidentally, No2 was a new semaphore signal commissioned in 2003 following rationalisation of the yard in Mullingar. Great video. If you have anymore please upload them.
Great! Thanks for your lovely video, the carriages have electric motors on their axles , don't they? I used to love the marvellous sound of the engines, I wonder did they go above 5,000 RPM?
That was a wonderful trip back in time. I assume it was a Sunday, due to the up Cravens train. I don't think that there was any station on the Island like Mullingar! I was in the cabin on Good Friday 1998 and took ftge, but nowhere as good as yours. I got very nostalgic.
Brilliant video. It's sad to see all signal boxes empty today... My late father would have loved to have seen that footage as he worked with CIE all his life...
Great video, my late father Jack Shanley worked in this signal cabin and number 2 cabin on the Galway loop. Mullingar station is now sadly a shadow of its former glory. The Galway platform now derelict.
Let us remember all those who worked at Mullingar station, who gave their working life to CIE, including my grandfather Edward Purcell, my uncle Matthew Purcell. RIP to them all.
Best Regards Valentine Shanley
Very sad to see the waste that is the Mullingar to Athlone greenway. Should never have been tarmaced over. Mullingar was once a fine junction station. It’s sad to see the dereliction on the Galway side.
Brilliant video. The signalman is PJ Ballesty. Many the evening I spent with PJ back in 2002.
Your video captured an interesting feature of the electric token block system(ETS). At 3:23 you can see PJ opening a lock with a key on lever No58. 58 was the starting signal towards Mostrim, now Edgeworthstown. The key is locked in the token instrument and is released when Mostrim releases a staff to Mullingar. This was a safety feature that prevented a signalman from clearing the starting signal without first getting the permission from the signalman in advance. At 11:05 you can see PJ put back No2, advance starting signal to Killucan, lock it normal in the frame, remove the key and then place it in the Killucan token instrument before giving train entering section, 2 bells. Incidentally, No2 was a new semaphore signal commissioned in 2003 following rationalisation of the yard in Mullingar.
Great video. If you have anymore please upload them.
Thanks for adding that very interesting. The safety features built into railways needed to be very effective.
Great! Thanks for your lovely video, the carriages have electric motors on their axles , don't they? I used to love the marvellous sound of the engines, I wonder did they go above 5,000 RPM?
The mk2 carriages here are hauled by locomotives so not powered.
I love how the signalman throws the token to the driver
Lovely Footage from the Good Years!😃.
That was a wonderful trip back in time. I assume it was a Sunday, due to the up Cravens train. I don't think that there was any station on the Island like Mullingar! I was in the cabin on Good Friday 1998 and took ftge, but nowhere as good as yours. I got very nostalgic.
Claremorris cabin in its heyday was another substantial cabin with 66 levers and 6 token instruments. A busy cabin like Mullingar was.
Great footage of the cabin and the token instruments.
Great footage much enjoyed
Many a time I drank tea in that cabin. With my father Sean casey signal man
What year was this??
2004 or 2005. The new signalling system wasn't commissioned at the time although it was in place. Mullingar was commissioned in November 2005.