[Thomas J Stamp]

Oisin that link is into the members section and not the canteen.

Just to quote from my post in it:

As a start go to wikipedia, there is a great entry on Irish Rail there is a link to a sub entry on irish locomotives, loads of info there. Also go to Irish Railway News (google it and they will come) head to the general section and trawl through the topics stopping off at ones that look like "what types of trains operating in ireland" and such like, plenty of into there.

And my definition of a 201 locomotive:

"Big orange bastards bought by IE around 1994 you can see them pulling trains to Cork, Galway, Westport, Tralee and Limerick and Belfast. Glorified freight train not really suitable for passenger work. Too heavy to cross the shannon on the sligo line so it cant do freight over there. Badly used on the Belfast line to provide electric power to all the carraiges resulting in them breaking down. More Technical (hello Mr Gleeson): History, weight, speeds, axle loadings, HEP, mid-life refurbishment programme all have to be mentioned. BTW there was also a class 201 loco in the 50's."

As the evening start drawing in I think this wouldnt be a bad idea and we might do it as a general announcement or a sticky. Problem is that really we could do one that can be as big as this site itself and still not solve some qustions.

Rest assured, while we try to keep things as non-technical as we can we are aware that committee members and others can lapse into technobabble if only for the want of using shorthand when typing replies. We do try not to, dont be shy is asking within a thread "what's a 181 loco" or "you said a 2700, what's that?"

Older viewers will remember my first thread on the old board: How fast can a 201 class loco actually go?. We've all been there.