Geoff Marshall / All The Stations

Had actually recommended to them the Line walkway by the old Blackrock Station. Delighted they explored the area! And even our (beloved.. Hmmm) Bus Eireann routes 202 and 215 got a mention :P

Went back to Tipp station in todays video - they'll have quite significant distorted the stats for the line with those trips!

Careful, you might make Barry Kenny jealous!

1 thing I never copped is that the voice on train is different as Bearla to as Gaeilge. Seems unfair to the Irish language guy, is his voice not good enough in English?

Really enjoying series, Ireland is a bit of a ride to be fair, especially when the sun shines.

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Quite impressed at how well the rail network comes across in the videos.

Lol. Did you watch episode.7. - Bridgetown, the Barrow Bridge and Tramore.

Off topic; The beautiful station at Tramore used to belong to Tramore Fáilte who virtually went bust over the farcical "Celtworld" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtworld visitor project and now lies derelict while the tourist office is now in a tiny building across the road which was closed on the occasion of Geoff's visit.

Episode.10. on the Nenagh branch is a laugh too.

Tramore would be perfect for low cost light rail, which could also serve the airport if there's ever a serious suggestion of new services.

Efforts should be put in to pushing for practical reuse of old lines (although the Tramore line isn't just sitting there anymore obviously) ahead of pie in the sky projects. Cork and Limerick also have former trackbeds and extant disused lines where light rail would make sense

However - Celtworld wasn't tacky tourist tat. It suffered from being too dear to go to, no internet / TripAdvisor to guide people to it and the awful roads to Waterford then making it an impractical school tour destination. The idea is not terrible, the location for the time was. It probably wasn't given long enough to try make it work.

If you want misguided tourist attractions, the Baileys visitor centre at Leopardstown racecourse wins outright. Even with the Luas now it's still an awful location for a Dublin attraction - but that was nearly a decade away when it opened.

Geoff looks bored already and wants to get home. Ireland is like a longer visit to Wales. The more I see, the more Irish railways looks like it is......Dead from the neck up.

I'd guess there's a difference between something he's likely wanted to do forever (the UK one) and something that was just suggested enough times they decided to do it. From the Instagram stuff I get the feeling he quite enjoyed doing the Luas which would probably be a bit closer to his usual Underground connected stuff.

Also, the awkward stations all have at least 2 services each way 5 days a week and we've no parliamentary services, or good figures for least used - the rail census is not valid for extrapolating that - so that robs some of the intrigue. There's been no country walks between stations, no one train a week nightmares to visit, etc etc.

I see by their twitter/instagram that they're now in Norn Iron. I think it's interesting that when they were in Wales and Scotland the stations had dual language signs and (was it Wales only?) dual language announcements. Not so for the North...

Use to watch his underground & london train videos, were interesting but talk about obsessed