Ireland

Classic Train Journeys - Ireland (65-mins) (DVD)

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With cameras placed inside the driver’s cab and in helicopters flying overhead, you get a privileged seat on this thrilling journey around the coasts, along the plains and through the mountains of the Emerald Isle.

Highlights include:

• Rosslare to Dublin East Coast Line

• Tullamore Steam Special

• The Westport Line

• Dublin to Sligo

• The Cavan and Leitrim narrow gauge railway

• The Lartigue Monorailway

• Mallow to Tralee

• Tralee and Blennerville Steam Railway

and much much more. So sit back and let the train take the strain and enjoy this magic carpet ride on some of the world’s most beautiful railways.

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The Enterprise: Dublin to Belfast (110-mins) (DVD)

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The Dublin to Belfast route is 113½ miles long. Our journey begins at Dublin’s Connolly Station. For the first few miles we proceed through the rapidly re-generating suburbs under the wires of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit.

At Malahide we leave the wires behind us as our train runs over a magnificent causeway and alongside the sea at Skerries.

Drogheda is the first stop. Back in 1845 trains could go no further until the wide River Boyne was bridged by a large viaduct completed a whole ten years later. Now you can see the box girder viaduct from the cab. The next stop is Dundalk, following which we face a similar long drag to that on the Settle and Carlisle line in England. Now we cross the border into Northern Ireland calling first at Newry.

Immediately beyond the utilitarian station we cross Craigmore viaduct - Ireland’s highest. The scenery is no less spectacular as the line meanders through Poyntzpass. The final intermediate stop is at Portadown, now we have a free run all the way into Belfast Central.

This is a route of great interest with double line throughout. Our 90 mile an hour express was filmed mostly in sunshine. Much of the history of this interesting and scenic route is related by Henry Kelly.

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Dublin to Sligo (114-mins) (DVD)

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In 2004, trains on the Intercity route from Dublin to Sligo were still hauled by diesel locomotives. However, 2004 is destined to be their penultimate year of operation before route modernisation and the inauguration of DMU traction. Bearing this in mind and the popularity of the Rosslare DEV produced last year, Irish Rail invited Video 125 back to record this classic line before the changes take place.

Our train of Mk 2 coaches - hauled by class 071 locomotive 088, starts its journey in one of the terminal platforms at Dublin’s Connolly Station. The line follows the course of the Royal Canal most of the way to Mullingar, the railway having actually purchased the canal before building the line.

After leaving the western suburbs of the capital, the line is controlled by time-honoured electric key token block sections and semaphore signalling. Many level crossing gates are still opened and shut by hand. As well as seeing this scenic line from the driver’s cab, there are the usual trackside shots, shots of the drivers at work, shots of the signalmen at work and aerial shots taken from a helicopter accompanying our train all the way to the west coast town of Sligo.

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Rosslare To Dublin (106-mins) (DVD)

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This is one of the most interesting and spectacular routes running up the east coast from Rosslare Europort to Dublin Connolly .

After running round its train, our class 071 diesel sets off with a rake of Mk 2 coaches. At first the line skirts the coastline alongside the Irish Sea. At Wexford our train slows to walking pace as it traverses the long street running section next to the harbour. Turning inland, the line follows the course of the River Slaney offering up further magnificent views from the cab.There are only three trains a day on this route and we pass one of them at Enniscorthy.

At Wicklow we are back on the coast for a high speed section on long welded track. The overhead wire heralds the start of the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) at Greystones. Soon we encounter the most difficult section to build, at Bray Head. Here the much-photographed tunnels cling on to the side of the sheer rockface. Photographers rarely get the chance to see the tunnels from the driving cab let alone from a helicopter flying alongside.

Running through Dun Laoghaire (Dun Leary) the Irish equivalent of the Cote D'Azur, we enter the Dublin conurbation. This was the very first railway in Ireland, dating from 1834. Half a dozen or so level crossings close for our passage before we pass through Dublin Pearse station, the original southern terminus, and arrive at Connolly Station in the heart of Ireland's capital.

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BELFAST - LONDONDERRY (??-mins) ()

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DUBLIN - CORK DVD (??-mins) ()

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