The Córas Iompair Éireann601 Classlocomotives were built in 1956-1957, by Motorenfabrik Deutz at Cologne, Germany. They were 3 small shunting locomotives (601,602,603) of B wheel arrangement and were fitted with a Deutz F/A8L 714 engine of 130hp, with Voith hydraulic transmission. They weighed only 18 tons and had a maximum speed of 20mph. They were withdrawn from service between 1965 and 1972, and one of these locomotives, number G601, has been preserved by the Irish Traction Group and is based at Carrick-on-Suir. Image File history File linksMetadata CIE-G601. ... Image File history File linksMetadata CIE-G601. ... Córas Iompair Éireann[1] (CIÉ) is a statutory authority which is owned by the Irish Government. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... Deutz AG is a German engine manufacturer. ... Cologne (German: ; Kölsch: Kölle /ˈkÅ“É«É™/) is Germanys fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than... Córas Iompair Éireann 001 Class locomotive. ...
However, a permanent solution was found by converting the entire class with General Motors engines from 1969 (a similar process was also undergone by the 001Class).
From 1984 the class was replaced by electric multiple units operating the newly-electrified Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) services, and the remaining examples were all withdrawn over the following two years (the first having been withdrawn in 1973, and the last in 1986).
Prior to 1961, almost all Irish diesel locomotives had been built in the British Isles (the 601Classlocomotives being the exception), but from then on GM became the normal supplier for CIÃ locomotives, and later for Northern Ireland Railways locomotives too.
By 1995, the 121Class was displaced from most passenger routes by the 201class.
Hundreds of railway enthusiasts from throughout Ireland and Britain gathered in Sligo to bid a fond farewell to 124 and 134, âthe Class of 121', the oldest surviving locomotives in the Irish Rail fleet.
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