Luckily nobody was hurt and Thomas was sent to back to Tidmouth Shed.

GoogleMapsStreetView - found by the trees behind.

This was one of the big crashes leading to the phasing out of wood frame rolling stock, wasn't it?

Here it is on the rails again: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/CIE_E42...

@diemotonetgorden Perhaps it was Dodge the Diesel?!

Very little out there about this event!

Alternative Streetview.

It's not in the accident archive. The nearest one is Mullingar in 1963.

See this from @35617390@N03 photostream @35617390@N03/3359860214/in/photostream and this ? @35617390@N03/3359860208/in/photostream/

From Wikipedia: The first of the class made its debut in early October 1962 on pilot duties in the Dublin area and although they had a design maximum speed of 100 km/h (60 mph), experience (notably the derailment of a trial train hauled by E421) showed that they did not ride well when travelling at speeds over 40 km/h (25 mph) and so henceforth were limited to that speed and used simply for shunting duties instead. They were numbered E421–E434, and were withdrawn from service between 1979 and 1983. Three of these locomotives have been preserved, as follows: E421 and E432: Owned by and based at the Downpatrick & County Down Railway, Northern Ireland [1]. E421 is operational;

So this crash was during a trial run before the class was brought into service.

@gnmcauley Excellent, Niall. Just running out to grab an emergency coffee, will peruse the national newspapers on my return, and report back...

From Irish Press on Saturday, 8 September 1962:

Lines cut when train jumps rails When a C.I.E. test train jumped the rails a few hundred yards on the Dublin side of Droichead Nua yesterday, traffic on the main Dublin-Cork line was brought to a standstill. Break-down crews from Kildare, with a rail-crance, were last night endeavouring to open up single line traffic at the scene of the accident, which happened in the erly afternoon. None of the seven people who were on the train -- six employees of C.I.E. and a German engineer -- was injured. The diesel locomotive of the train mounted the supporting bank of a road bridge which spans the railway line, and ended up in an almost perpendicular position. There were five coaches on the train, which was returning to Dublin on a routine test run from Kildare. The first coach was almost completely wrecked and all of the other coaches were damaged. Both sides of the line were torn up, sleepers smashed and signal wires severed. The Cork-Dublin side of the track was severely buckled for the 200 yeards leading up to the point where the derailment took place. ... A major pile-up was just avoided, as another test train on a run from Dublin to Portlaoise had just passed the Dublin-bound train when it ran off the rails.

I crave your indulgence as this is completely off topic, but given the whole horse meat extravaganza, couldn't resist this - also from Irish Press on Saturday, 8 September 1962 (this is why I try to avoid newspapers, they suck you in for hours):

Hide and hair in meat tin A piece of bovine hide, with black hair, found in a tin of meat resulted in a fine of £10, with £14-7-6 costs, for Messrs Oxo Ltd. at Coleraine Petty Sessions yesterday. The firm, charged with selling, through a shopkeeper, a tin of corned beef which was not of the required standards, admitted the offence. Mr. Montgomery (Messrs. McKinty and Wright, Belfast) for the firm, said they had done everything in their power to find out how it had happened, so that there would be no possibility of the same thing happening again. Mr. J.L. Baxter, for Derry Health Committee, prosecuting, said they took a very serious view of the happening because the extraneous matter was of such an objectionable nature.

@nlireland Somebody in Coleraine was not thick skinned it seems:-)

Can we take it that the job wasn't OXO? Your new information has changed our train of thought.

@nlireland Hours? Days weeks more like.

@johnspooner Ah yes, a fellow addict! Though I think you are a hopeless case, completely beyond any form of rehabilitation...

@swordscookie @75556178@N05 On the plus side, it was actually beef in the tin of corned beef!

@nlireland I foresee a new Limerick! @beachcomberaustralia Lots of options: Spam, scam, thank you ma'am

@79549245@N06 Your turn! My Poetic Licence is overdue for renewal.

@beachcomberaustralia See, you've revitalised the Limerick tradition! You'll have to set up a Summer School. @79549245@N06 And please do keep it (relatively) clean - we're a before the watershed website... ;)

@beachcomberaustralia @nlireland It would be task that I would fail miserably, I bow to your superior ability in this area. The following is my latest attempt! A limerick fan from Australia regarded his work as a failure: his verses were fine until the fourth line ?

@nlireland Ha! I had to look up before the watershed !

@79549245@N06 Brillia..

Hi lads. Another off topic note from a thread over at TheJournal.ie (not on horse meat). Apparently someone accidentally included a bunch of old photos in with a clothing donation to Age Action. And are trying to reunite them with the owner. Perhaps unsurprisingly some of the commenters at TheJournal mentioned Carol and her faithful "Flickroonies" (cough) as possible sources of help. Anyone want to apply their investigative talents to try and identify/source the owner of these: www.thejournal.ie/age-action-photo-albums-found-820107-Ma...

Mean while back at the photograph,this railway bridge is called "Sex`s bridge",called after a Sex family who farmed nearby,this family are still in Newbridge.

@20727502@N00 Thanks and well done for sharing! Though "can't remember the admin's name"?! *Flounces off in high dudgeon* :D

@65379774@N02 Have added Sex's Bridge as a tag, thank you. Though major ooh-er when I googled "Sex's Bridge, Kildare" - backed away very swiftly!

@nlireland You should probably search for text rather than images.

Great choice Carol, just a quick one to tax your brain! Are there many shots in the archive of the NLI of the Harcourt street station crash at the early part of the last centurary, think it was around 1912??? Just curious!

I live in an estate beside Sex Bridge, the next bridge is Mooneys bridge. We do have strange names.

and here are the Sex's of Morristownbiller in 1901 www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002584140/

@69751036@N08 I am originaly from Newbridge, have seen this photo before and I think there may be a Monahan in it.I rem the older James Monaghan and his son James they worked on the railway.

@nlireland ewww. Waiter, there's some cow hide in my corned beef.

What of the driver? Hope he recovered fully.

terrible !

@79549245@N06 If I think of a good one, I'll mail yer...:-)

@79549245@N06 @beachcomberaustralia A Limerick fan from Australia, regarded his work as a failure! His verses were fine, until the fourth line. He'd lost his paraphernalia...

@photoken04 Hi Ken. Not many shots, but they're in our Sparkes Collection. Have a look at this link to past NLI Newsletters for a good view of one of these very dramatic photos (Click on Summer 2008) from 14 February 1900...

@nlireland Ha ha ho hum! Meanwhile, back at this train-wreck-of-a-photo, was the engine going backwards at the time to end up on the embankment like that?

@nlireland good last line but not as good as @beachcomberaustralia ...... How about So he prayed to the muse Thalia

@79549245@N06 Bowing to your superior Limericking abilities!

The story goes that there was a manager named Hannigan at Newbridge whose job was to send a report on this crash to CIE.HQ. He got his knuckles wrapped for being too long winded in his report, so the next time a train jumped the tracks he sent a report that read: Off Again On Again Gone Again Hannigan.

I have no relatives by that name, but I asked around and there was a James "slicey" Monaghan who worked on the railways about that time, he could be our guy.