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I thinks it was 079 in Portlaoise. It is definately pilot today. There was a Portlaoise pilot up to the late 1980s it used to work anywhere needed from Tullamore to Roscrea, there used to be a bacon train to Roscrea worked by it. There was also occasional traffic out the stub of the Waterford branch to the Bord na Mona works at Coolnamona and private sidings to an Esso oil terminal and Worsted Mills adjacent to the Sleeper factory
It came back to life in the early 1990s whereby the engine off the fertilizer would stable in the bay platform until either returning with the empties or going out to assist a failed train. Both 071s and 201s often appeared on this. The end for pairs of 141s came when 145 assisted an up Cork which failed near Portlaoise, it in turn failed and I think it and the 201 were replaced by another 2x 141s and these also failed. After that small GMs were effectively banned from rescue duty on the Cork line although they have seen use in Athlone and Waterford since that time.