21st Century Railway - RTÉ 1

robclay26 · 26-11-2012 10:04pm

Talked such sh!te on it! Simple solutions just are never considered to the rail problems.

bikeman1 · 26-11-2012 10:49pm

More of the same crap as before! At least we got to see all those lovely 3d design walkthroughs that they spent millions on.

Seeing Dick Fearn on there spouting out more rubbish and trying to use the motorways as an excuse for falling demand, just made me frustrated.

Well at least that's the 90 mins of free advertising for IE over.

Meanwhile in the real world it's back to an overpriced average service that doesn't meet the demands of most people.

LivelineDipso · 26-11-2012 11:37pm

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Brilliant! I love pre computerised graphic design. You can see how the artist used a real airbursh to blend the images.

All you get on the RTE Guide now are RTE 'stars' looking as if we give a toss about them.

Judgement Day · 27-11-2012 9:48pm

The third and, thank God, final episode is now on the RTE Player here: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10090689/ Possibly less mind crushing than the first two but I still consider it half an hour of my life wasted.

Wicklowandy · 28-11-2012 3:35am

I am facinated by trains and find the built history fabulous, but it sure aint my specialist subject;)

But after watching all of this on rte player, i cant believe that this isnt a paid for presentation on behalf of irish rail.

This could have been great, but instead was some of the laziest bland tv ive seen.

And that guy from west on track, let alone the irish rail 'management' reinforces the truth that senior management in the public sector wouldnt last a week in the real world.

dublinman1990 · 22-07-2013 3:22pm

RTE & Imagine Films should be ashamed of themselves putting this on Irish TV.

I have to say that it was a pure load of sensationalist rubbish that was not very well thought out when it was done with IE.

In Episode 2 of the series which I watched again last Friday; I thought the impression that you would get a train directly from Cork to either Galway or Waterford is still misleading.

There are no direct railway lines to these destinations. I know that people living in Cork would have to connect to Galway via Limerick Junction to get to Limerick to go towards Ennis & than beyond to Galway.

I don't know about a direct connection from Waterford to Cork now by train today. That is still a mystery. The clowns who made that series are still lacking in their brains of the idea you still have to connect to Waterford by train via Limerick Junction to switch trains if going from Cork.

Why did they not apply that theory when they shown it on TV. Those connections today still have not changed with not even of a whimper of fantasy thrown in for good measure.

Seanieboy98 · 09-12-2013 8:35pm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

isn't all of Ireland's rail 20th century or older. still using 20th century tech for signalling, locomotives, dmu/emu etc
what exactly is 21st century about any aspect of Irish rail other than the dates the happen to run trains?

No is the short answer there. Anyway, there is a difference between the 1900s and the 1990s. You can't just say the 20th Century is out of date' and 21st Century is modern. Every European country uses something from the 20th Century.

GTE · 11-12-2013 2:03am

I guess what annoys people is different from person to person.

I need my sound engineers hat on for this, there is a reconstruction scene in episode 1 where people are applauding the sod cutting for a new railway project many a year ago, in the middle of a field now!

The applauding sound they used is from people standing a large room. It is little details like that which would keep me up at night if I was working on something like this.

It must be said, it is an indicator to some other production issues. Anyway, I know you guys care about content more than production values

Grandeeod · 11-12-2013 6:18pm

I may have said this before but this production was started in 2004. The original footage was reworked. New footage and interviews were shot. Original interviews were scrapped. It is nothing more than pro IE rubbish.

highdef · 14-12-2013 10:03pm

I think these videos might be part of what Judgement Day is speaking of. Most of the following seem to be from around 1979:

Here's an interesting one from Bray:

Preparation of the Dublin to Cork train:

Cross border shopping in 1968:

Interview with a train driver in 1989 on the Jo Maxi SHow:

21st Century Railway - RTÉ 1

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