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Naming conventions for train stations and lines

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  • #122
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    Limerick Junction opened in 1848 when there would have been little of any importance around there. So naming it Barronstown might have been better. There used to be a racecourse next to the station but it looks abandoned judging by Google maps..

    Railway construction at the time it opened had great difficulty getting access to land near cities as the local landowners would not cooperate. Hence many stations are not well placed and routes built tended to be less than direct. Judging by the M17 and M18, times have not changed much.



  • #123
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123207127#Comment_123207127

    The racecourse is still active, and indeed doesn't even look vaguely abandoned on Google Maps?

    Your posts on this thread are incredibly confused and confusing.



  • #124
    KrisW1001
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123207127#Comment_123207127

    That’s Tipperary Racecourse. Next meeting 24. April, 2005.

    I’m not claiming to be a local - I’ve only ever passed through here on the way somewhere else, but the lack of knowledge about this area on show in the last few posts is surprising.



  • #125
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123207147#Comment_123207147

    Quote: That’s Tipperary Racecourse. Next meeting 24. April, 2005.

    That is twenty years ago!

    No meetings for 2025 due to new all weather development of the course. I was there once and my bet came in last in the bumper.



  • #126
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123207246#Comment_123207246

    It's a typo. The website lists 24th April 2025; and three in May listed.

    Either way, it is very much not abandoned.



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  • #127
    KrisW1001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,409 ✭✭✭KrisW1001


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123207246#Comment_123207246

    You didn't consider for one second that that was a typo?

    They're still stating April 2025 on their own website. But if that's been postponed for renovation work, it's hardly the "abandoned" racecourse you described it as.

    There's nothing wrong with the words "my mistake", you know... I use them all the time myself.



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