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Have our train stations come under British rule?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I would welcome the Brits with open arms to rule our train services instead of Iarnrod Eireann

    British railway services aren't much better than ours.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    I would welcome the Brits with open arms to rule our train services instead of Iarnrod Eireann

    First Capital Connect for the Maynooth franchise.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    British railway services aren't much better than ours.

    They are, I used to live there, always thought they were excellent, maybe I just got lucky


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    First Capital Connect for the Maynooth franchise.

    Cork Cobh & Middleton will be getting that ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    somefeen wrote: »
    I suppose you calls it boxing day as well? Oh yeah I know your type "oh its boxing day in the British isles, let go down to railway station and listen to the queens speech after a game if cricket and a glass of Pimms!"
    Treasonous. Charles Haughey would be turning in his grave!!

    Train station is a US/lazy Irish media name for railway station - in much the same way as the media refer to all rail passengers as commuters. Dublin suburban railway stations are routinely described as DART stations whereas they are railway stations and in many cases served by other trains as well as the DART service.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    They are, I used to live there, always thought they were excellent, maybe I just got lucky

    I was born and raised there and the rail service was always ****ing dismal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,635 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    I would welcome the Brits with open arms to rule our train services instead of Iarnrod Eireann

    I think they would be up for a swap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Reputable Rog


    Turnipman wrote: »
    This lad?

    billy-connolly.jpg

    Your all wrong, it's this guy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭server down


    They are, I used to live there, always thought they were excellent, maybe I just got lucky

    You did. Their privatised service is ****e. And increasing in price way beyond inflation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte



    Repeated ad nauseum with lots of other ****e during the journey to add to the overall chaos. :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭server down


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Train station is a US/lazy Irish media name for railway station - in much the same way as the media refer to all rail passengers as commuters. Dublin suburban railway stations are routinely described as DART stations whereas they are railway stations and in many cases served by other trains as well as the DART service.

    In the great train station vs railway station war of 2017 I stayed neutral.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Your all wrong, it's this guy

    The different types of train tickets should be red, yellow and black.

    Train Ticket.....should I have said Railway Ticket :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio



    Why do people waste their time making videos like this?? Never understood it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I don't care as long as I can understand the announcement. More often than they're unintelligible, even when the speaker isn't slurping and horsing his or her way through the mug of tay and the choccy Hob Nobs. All the unneccessary reams of Irish on the on board announcements only serve to p1ss me off and disturb me from my slumber.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,787 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Why do people waste their time making videos like this?? Never understood it.

    That's not a person, it's a comedian.

    https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/entertainment/bernard-casey-talks-comedy-creativity-and-the-future-35594016.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio



    I would have thought being funny was a prerequisite for being a comedian. Shows what I know. Has he any other “hilarious” everyday announcements??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Reputable Rog


    I'd like see the Belgians run our railways.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tSKg6lIXRcw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,787 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Are the announcements in Belgian?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Reputable Rog


    Are the announcements in Belgian?

    Depends on your definition of Belgian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,635 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Your all wrong, it's this guy

    Service gets suspended a bit too often.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Presume they were the ones to first build the railways in Ireland?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,787 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Depends on your definition of Belgian.

    A hypothetical extinct Indo-European language, supposed to have been spoken distinct from Celtic in late prehistory, in certain parts of what has become known as Gaul.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭indioblack


    I notice there's an announcement to stay behind the yellow line over the PA systems in Pearse and Connolly Stations by a woman with an English accent and the announcement is only in English. Have our train stations come under British rule the last couple of weeks?

    They haven't gone away you know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Train station is a US/lazy Irish media name for railway station - in much the same way as the media refer to all rail passengers as commuters. Dublin suburban railway stations are routinely described as DART stations whereas they are railway stations and in many cases served by other trains as well as the DART service.

    I actually never noticed that before.
    So is it a bit like airplane / aeroplane?

    Would train station also be technically incorrect seeing as not all the vehicles going through it will be trains. As in some of the dart services and luas services are not trains but one single vehicle travelling on rails?

    Why am I even thinking about this?
    Is this what learning feels like? I'm not sure I like it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    At least the last CEO of Irish Rail - a Brit - left a legacy of greatly improved signage. The clear, clean British Rail style signs are a vast improvement on the multitude of poor CIE/IE offerings down the decades. CIE/IE don't do clear or made to last.

    Connolly%2Bold.jpg


    PS I like trains/railways in AH much more fun than the over moderated C+T Forum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    If a Train Station is a Railway Station should a Bus Station be a
    Road Station?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    If a Train Station is a Railway Station should a Bus Station be a
    Road Station?

    An autobahn stop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,058 ✭✭✭✭SeanW


    I wish the Brits would take over our railway system. We could replace the above with this
    ...

    TL:DW version:

    Nordy trains announce only "The next stop is X"
    If it's feeling really talkative, it might say "This is the train for Y, the next is stop is X".

    Or, if it's feeling really, REALLY talkative, the Passenger Info System will say something like
    "The next stop is X. Change here for (useful stuff at station X)".

    https://u24.gov.ua/
    Join NAFO today:

    Help us in helping Ukraine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    cisk wrote: »
    Do you mean Westland row?

    Staisiun na bPiarsach?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭indioblack


    I was born and raised there and the rail service was always ****ing dismal.

    So was I and my experience of British Railways, [as it was then], was more positive. I had to use the train as part of my journey to and from school and in four years I was only delayed a couple of times. Even in winter, [real winters with three or four feet of snow - not the dusting that stops trains today], I was able to reach my destination.
    Best of all - some were still steam trains - noisy, smelly, dirty - fun!


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