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Have you ever walked a railway line to explore?

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  • 21-01-2010 1:27am
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    drunken_munky52
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    This is important for me to know. I need to know if others felt the same way when then were young, if they kept walking a railway line, wanting to find out what it was like beyond the next bend? I had it easy enough as a boy, with the Ennis to Galway line abandoned for years, I could explore without fear. Walked so far with my mates one day that we had to get a taxi back in the evening. Some trip! And I even had this curiosity before I watched "Standby Me".


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    Jumpy
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    Have you even SEEN the video?

    Are you insane.


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    My name is URL
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    Yeah I done it a few times, sure it's safe enough if you stay off the tracks


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    Sulmac
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    Walked along the closed railway line in Tuam for a few kilometres a couple of years back. Found what appeared to be an abandoned tree nursery (specialising in Christmas Trees), though that was about the height of it.

    I am the kind to wander off and explore things randomly, though.


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    bitemybanger
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    Walk a disused one frequently


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    AlmightyCushion
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    We used to do it the whole time when we were kids. Spent most our summers on the tracks. We didn't have the advantage of an abandoned track though, nearly had a few close calls.


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    smythwicks
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    drunken_munky52 wrote: »
    I need to know if others felt the same way when then were young, I even had this curiosity before I watched "Standby Me".

    Oh my:eek:


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    Who_owns_this?
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    Yep - we used to walk along the railway lines. We hopped on the tracks in Roselawn and walked near the canal chatting endlessly. We could hear the trains coming from ages away and hopped to safety well before it got dangerous.
    This was only about 5 years ago. Good times!


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    drunken_munky52
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    The Ennis/Athenry line is re-opening shortly. I still have a stretch to walk tough, come out of my folks home and walk half about 3/4 mile up the Limerick direction until I hit Clareabbey. This walk is one that always keeps me rooted in childhood.


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    AnonoBoy
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    When I was younger and I wanted to explore I just went over to this one guy's house. We called him 'Creepy Hands John'.


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    InKonspikuou2
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    I've walked a total of 10 hours on railway tracks. 6 hours just outside Cali in Colombia and around 4 hours on the way to Machu Picchu. Hate it cause the gaps weren't all the same so you couldn't walk at a decent pace.


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    Jet Black
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    ''Standby Me''
    The story of a man that never unplugged his television.

    Yeah I walked them with my dad about 15 years ago. They were disused and was kind of creepy how quiet it was.


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    ascanbe
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYUG8elGsMM


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    sea_monkey
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    stand by me is all well and good

    but have you seen creep?

    im just happy we dont have any trains where i live haha


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    Misty Chaos
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    Yeah, when I was younger, I sometimes walked the track on the then unused Midleton - Cork route, never really got that far, though, nettles usually got in my way. :pac:


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    mikom
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    drunken_munky52 wrote: »
    And I even had this curiosity before I watched "Standby Me".

    Cool movie............... but I preferred "Hibernate me" or even Restart me".


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    Fizman
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    Jumpy wrote: »
    Have you even SEEN the video?

    Are you insane.

    I refuse to travel by rail as a result of that you know!


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    Fizman
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    mikom wrote: »
    Cool movie............... but I preferred "Hibernate me" or even Restart me".

    I read on IMDB that in 2012 we have 'Shutdown Me'. Michael Bay apparently. Looking forward to it.


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    Insect Overlord
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SukTBSJJ4KM


    After seeing this, never again :(


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    KingLoser
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    Aye, used to walk the old Kilmeaden to Waterford railway when I was small.


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    #21
    Thomas828
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    There's a path in North London that runs from Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace via Highgate. It used to be a railway track. I've walked up and down that line countless times.


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    dylano_k
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    Jumpy wrote: »
    Have you even SEEN the video?

    Are you insane.

    This one??
    If you look close towards the end you see the train kill and old woman:eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWwPP6HFzQ


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    Das Kitty
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    mikemac wrote: »
    Not an abandoned railway but if you know Galway you know the shortcut from Renmore to the train station.

    It's pitch black at night, you'll hear someone walking towards you long before you see them
    Worked as a hotel night porter and walked that route every night and carried a torch to see where I was going.

    Sadly, a few months after I left Galway a Swiss student was murdered nearby :(

    I wouldn't recommend anyone walk that route at night. I did it but no girl should ever. No lighting at all!

    She was murdered in the daytime.

    We used to walk/cycle along there as kids, there's a walkway, you're not actually on the track. We used to put pennies down to be flattened. There was usually some sort of weirdo around but those days there were always loads of people walking it.

    Exploration-wise we'd sometimes crawl along the back wall between our back gardens and those of the estate to the back, really weird seeing back gardens of people you only knew to see for some reason, we gave up our adventure when we spotted some perv fapping in his upstairs landing window watching us!

    I also remember us trying to find an entrance into a nearby subterranean set of tunnels, glad we didn't find one now.


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    Br4tPr1nc3
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    ive walked them to get home at times,
    because it was a more direct route than heading other ways,
    and for the ah sure why not factor.


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    The_B_Man
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    Check this out:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055626095

    All you need to know!


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