Wellingtonbridge
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Northern Loco on the Beet!
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It was clear and bright in Wellingtonbridge, County Wexford on 13 December 2003 when we visited to observe Irish Rail’s sugar beet operations.
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Heeding a prophecy of doom: Irish Rail 129 at Wellingtonbridge, Co. Wexford.
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December 23, 2002 was a cold, wet, dark and mucky; in other words, typical sugar beet weather. We were visiting the cabin at Wellingtonbridge, watching the machine load beet into ancient-looking four-wheel corrugated wagons. A steady ‘thump, thump, thump’ as…
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DAILY Post: Irish Rail at Taylorstown Viaduct, December 8, 2001
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A Classic Photograph from A Dozen Years Ago Today. It was just 12 years ago—December 8, 2001—that I stood in the damp grassy field overlooking Taylorstown Viaduct, Co. Wexford, to make this image of freshly painted General Motors 141s leading…
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Daily Post: Irish Rail, Wellingtonbridge, County Wexford, December 2005
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A Look at the Final Beet Season. Between September and January Irish Rail moved sugar beet from a loading facility at Wellingtonbridge to a processing factory in Mallow county Cork. In the last beet season, six days a week Wellingtonbridge…
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Indian Summer for the Irish Rail Class 121‑Part 3
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General Motors Single Cab Diesels Wander Far and Wide in their Final Years. In their final few years of service, Irish Rail 124 and 134 worked a great variety of services. For me, simple knowing these two engines were…
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Irish Rail—Cherryville Junction, 6 December 2003
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In 2003, Irish Rail operated its sugar beet trains via Kildare because the normal routing between Waterford and Limerick Junction was closed as result of a bridge collapse at Cahir, County Tipperary. On December 6, 2003, I was in place…