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Diana, that one letter you sent here in the mail. I looked at the post date on the envelope. I mentioned it to you that I would be very surprised if something did not happen. That was because I was very much expecting something to happen and what I was expecting had been voiced and spoken about in detail. And what happened later matched 100%, what had been voiced. By the time you got that letter, it had already been established for months that my train would be derailed in Ireland. And how did I know that? This is how. I found out they were going to derail my train. That there would be horrible Carnage and mutilation and dismemberment. I knew that the front of the train would be the most severely damaged. I knew that I would be knocked around but I would come out of it okay. Just after getting this knowledge, and this was when I was in my room in the barracks in Frankfurt Germany, my roommate, Jimmy Rowe, walks in. Okay so I told him that I was going on a eurail trip that summer and that they were going to derail my train. I gave him all the information as you read above. at first he said it was impossible for me to know that. He said it was crazy. He said it sounded paranoid. I told him paranoia had nothing to do with it. It was really going to happen. He asked me if I had told this to anyone else? I told him no I had not. He advised me not to mention this to anybody. He said they would think I was crazy. He asked if I was trying to get a section 8 discharge out of the army. Why would I have done that? I joined the army so I could travel and live in Europe. There I was doing what I wanted to do. Anyway I asked him to do this. I said I know this is going to happen. Just give me some advice and talk to me as though you know that it's going to happen. And guess what, he actually did that. He asked when is it going to happen? I said I don't know only that it will happen when I am there for it to happen. He asked me where will it happen? I told him I do not know that either but only to say that it will happen at the location where I am. After that he asked me where I planned to go on this eurail trip. I told him mainly to Ireland and Rome and Italy. So Jimmy Rose started talking about various incidents that had happened around the continent Continental Europe. Then he started talking about Ireland. He mentioned there had been several suspicious incidents in Ireland. You know what he told me? He said I don't think that you could possibly know anything like this, but, in my opinion if it happens anywhere it will be in Ireland. Jimmy Rowe told me that. I said the same thing. It will happen in Ireland. What was the date of this conversation? The year for 100% sure was 1980. It might have been in the month of April or May. Right at the end of July in 1980 I went on official leave from the army in Frankfurt Germany. I had a backpack. Took the train to Brussels where I spent the night in the hostel. Next day took the train to North coastal France where I caught the overnight ferry to Ross lair harbor on Southeast coastal Ireland. Rossler harbor is just North of old kinsale head and it was off old kinsale head where German u-boats torpedoed the passenger ship Lusitania. From rossler harbor I took the train North to Dublin. Spent a day or two there. Two women from Australia, Claire Lawrence and Enid Pasco, and I took the bus one morning to the main train station in Dublin. On the way to the train station I told them to sit as far to the rear of the train as possible with their backs to the direction of travel. I told them something bad could happen. I think they left it off at first. I told him two or three times to do what I told him that it's not a joke. We got our tickets. Starting from the very rear of the train, I walked forward looking in each window. The first place I saw where I could sit with my back to the direction of travel, I went in and sat there. Ain't it and clear set further to the rear and whether they took my advice or not they would be okay because they were far enough to the rear. We left the station sometime around 10:00 a.m. on August 1st 1980. Approximately two and a half hours later I'm not sure of the time, they derailed the train. By far most of the damage was done to the front of the train. People were horribly mutilated, bodies cut in half, people dismembered, contused over every inch of their bodies, horribly disfigured and profoundly disabled for life. Killed 18 people and injured 70. I was thrown back with enough force that my body tore two sets of steel-bolted train seats right up out of the floor and smashed a steel bolted table flat. I managed to dig myself out of the rubble under which I was partially encased. I got a small group to go into the wreckage and help people in any way they could like treatment for short and stopping bleeding. I got specific help for a young woman I saw in the wreckage. Her left leg was chopped off just below the knee and she was in very bad conditions otherwise. They awarded me the army commendation medal for that. It was supposed to be the soldiers medal which, they say, is the highest metal that can be awarded in peacetime not facing an enemy Force. But that's okay. I did not join the army to get medals. I did not want a medal. I only wanted to travel and live in Europe. Claire and Enid walked up into this town of Buttervent. They saw a man there and told him what I had told them in the bus on the way to the train station. He took them in his vehicle to his house just north of the town. He left them there with his wife. He went back to the Civic center in that town. Later I showed up there. He approached me and asked me who I was and when we established yes I'm John Shaw. He told me Claire and Enid or at his house and he invited me to go there. Okay so I have to get in a train wreck before I get an invitation in Ireland but I figured well what the hell I am here so I told him yes. So we got in his car and went to Velvet town house just north of this town of buttevant. He asked a series of very pointed specific questions. I will tell you what he asked me. Are you a member of any terrorist organization? Have you ever been a member? Do you know anyone who is in a any terrorist organization? Did you know anything about what happened today? Did anybody tell you that this would happen? Have you ever heard of the Irish Republican army? Do you know anybody in the Irish Republican army? Do you know anyone who has had any contact with the Irish Republican army or any terrorist organization? I answered no to everything. I answered no. The fact is the truth would have been yes. I mean, how do you think I knew this was going to happen to begin with? Divine intervention? I just denied everything. Just because you know something it doesn't mean that you have to tell it. Somebody might be asking questions and that's okay. You do not have to answer those questions and you do not have to give them information and that's okay too.

78 locomotive is flying it

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Famine

F1 HORN!

218 Has now been converted to run on HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil)

I had the privilege of meeting Oliver Doyle. A really decent fine fellow, and a very knowledgeable railwayman.

Regardless of politics, I wish every government across the globe had a pro-rail chap like Albert Reynolds. What a marvellous asset to Ireland, that man is.

Great video the ballast regulator horn sounds like one of the ones on the 2800/2600s

It's beggers believe why scrap these lovely coaches they have aleast another 20 years maybe restore them for special avents

Some nice footage of Inchicore sidings

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Great video with some wonderful characters. I was lucky enough to spot Ballyronan station when I was diverted going from Rathfriland to Banbridge when the road was closed for repairs. It has a timeless, other-worldly feel to it. Very well preserved.

Looks like yer man Clancy. I used the 'expresses' to and from the ferry at Rosslare. They had restaurant cars. Nothing better than getting off the ferry and going almost immediately to the train , for breakfast. Today's trip is pretty miserable , by car, but with some fine roads.

You can see the rpsi set there

A man from Offaly he lives in Kilkenny he use to do jobs for my father he said to my father I hear trains in borris my father said that's impossible he said trains stopped going to borris 30 years ago I can hear trains in borris too I can hear the old diesel locomotive in borris from a distance

What a smooth ride on those MK2 coaches

What an insane waste. :( IE is still running 29000 rattleboxes around the country when people could be riding these instead. Crazy.

The orange trains will be back in fashion again

Joe Meagher also appeared in New Horizons Volume 1 Ireland by Telerail

Hi Danny, it’s Luke here, just checking with you to see how you’re doing. How are you doing?

Great day's great footage

Great video, the opening clip is legendary!

I’m so glad the Harcourt Street line has now mostly been revived as part of the Luas. We need to keep reopening the disused railway lines across the country.

So stupid of them to close the railways. I’m just glad the Harcourt Street line has been revived as the Luas.

Extend the Fintown railway to Letterkenny!

Beautiful trains not bloody rail cars 😢

Reopen Irish railways!

These beautiful train coaches should still be in use and should of been upgraded instead of the current stock of damn railcars which look more like Dublins LUAS than actual trains.

This is a wonderful video. I was visiting the line this week and have learned there are now hopes of restoring services, as part of the All-Island Strategic Rail Review. Sadly most of the stations have been demolished, only Wellingtonbridge appears to retain its characteristic station island building, the footbridge and the signal box. The video nicely shows the platform design at other intermediate stations, all more-or-less the same. I dream that they can restore not only the service but the character of this lovely line. Looking forward to more news and developments. This is one line that should be open and offering connecting the South-East to the west of the country - so long as they get a convenient and reliable timetable!

Very cool

I have wonderful memories of Carrick and the sad feeling of getting on the train back to the ferry.

Rip Tom o’Mahoney he died in 2021

What model of train is that ?

great video

We need more freight in Ireland

The railway line between those 2 towns needs to be reopened.

they should increase the freqency of the route so that way more people would use the train

I would prefer if they opened those old tracks again.

Well Belmond didn't last long here. It seems exclusivity doesn't sell that well for this market. Who wants to pay €10k/week to sleep in a coach on a dreary commercial goods siding beside 40ft containers when the alternative is sea, lake or mountain views from any of the 5 star hotels?

Good stuff Danny! 👍 I love the capture at 9:03

What a great story from Albert Reynolds. Wonderful, when Irish politicians like Reynolds and LeMass had some integrity and cared about Irish People, our culture and our way of life. Our current crop of leaders are basically criminals, bought and paid for through the unelected criminals of the EU. And other than that yes, I love trains ever since my Dad's friend drove one out of 'Amien's Street' Station in the early 60s and fried bacon and eggs on the coal shovel. Then Albert gave us the DART in the 1980s and it was badly needed.

I drive a lamborghini tractor she's pours away happy as pig in muck on the road into town

All over the island of Ireland closed railway lines should reopen as soon as possible.

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Eliminated in "1952," probably during Mars transit in Scorpio.

I smile when see the locomotive run around at kilkenny railway station

Lovely footage. Seeing yer man smoking while working in the control car at 1:45 was gas, brings me right back to the 80s/90s when I was a kid.

Hope your keeping well Danny

I use go to dublin on the train with my granny