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Geoff Marshall / All The Stations

The Black Oil

I've a lot of time for this guy's videos. Find them fun and informative - they show a public transport system that's very well-developed. He seems to have a lot of contacts/behind the scenes access too. Anyway, Ireland is on their list for 2019, it'll be interesting to see what they make of things in this part of the world.

Any other fans here?

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TallGlass

dulpit wrote: »

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...

There is no Irish language act in NI as far as I am aware. SF wanted to bring it in, which would introduce this.

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-language-act-explainer-3851417-Feb2018/

Arlene Foster it seems is more interested in a Polish Language act.

dulpit

TallGlass wrote: »

There is no Irish language act in NI as far as I am aware. SF wanted to bring it in, which would introduce this.

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-language-act-explainer-3851417-Feb2018/

Arlene Foster it seems is more interested in a Polish Language act.

No I get that, I just think it's funny that the DUP want to be the same as the rest of the UK, except for all the times they don't... :rolleyes:

L1011

Credit Checker Moose wrote: »

So Roscrea and Tara Street remain shunned.

Roscrea was served by the Ballybrophy service they took. Tara Street I'm expecting to be used in a joke of some kind

Credit Checker Moose

They didn't show Roscrea which is odd as it is a block post and a nice little station.

Grandeeod

Looking tired and bored by it all. Struggling really. Started well enough, but its going downhill now. Maybe the Enterprise and Norn Iron will perk them up a bit.

goingnowhere

L1011 wrote: »

Roscrea was served by the Ballybrophy service they took. Tara Street I'm expecting to be used in a joke of some kind

Tara Street is the Isle of Wight gag revisited.

Roscrea they could not have been missed out

Drumcondra was covered as there was a trip through the Phoenix Park

The Black Oil

Picked up by RTE News https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0409/1041714-railway-couple/

Thrashssacre

goingnowhere wrote: »

Tara Street is the Isle of Wight gag revisited.

Roscrea they could not have been missed out

Drumcondra was covered as there was a trip through the Phoenix Park

Don’t think clondalkin/fonthill featured either.

L1011

There's a few stations that didn't make the edit but they definitely were on a train serving it. Tara Street however has not been shown as served yet, but it's obvious enough that it'll be shown at the end or a few weeks later

TallGlass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8R9zfNwBE

Luas today!

Ursus Horribilis

I've been watching these from the start and still can't make up my mind about them. What they're doing is admirable but it also makes it frustratingly superficial. Perhaps they didn't have more time to spare but the series would've benefited from them slowing down and exploring more places. Some of the ones where they spent more time were a bit random too. Seems like the only reason Vicki went to look at Tipp Town (not the nicest destination on our railway network) was because of the old song. There's nothing much in Longford apart from St Mel's cathedral. I wondered why Geoff didn't just ask someone what the non-castle in Tullamore was (it's the remains of a jail) or how to pronounce some of the tongue-tangling placenames. Did they not listen to the train announcements? Naas being called Nass is a schoolboy error. When they do slow down, it makes for better watching; that segment where they went to the railway museum in Castlerea being a case in point.

Lord Glentoran

neris wrote: »

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

We’re posting on a sub board called Train and Rail Systems. I suspect that most of us aren’t here for the ironic detachment.

The Black Oil

I don't have an issue with the obsession. They're not Youtubers constantly begging for subscribers, likes or with the cap out for Patreon money.

TallGlass

The Black Oil wrote: »

I don't have an issue with the obsession. They're not Youtubers constantly begging for subscribers, likes or with the cap out for Patreon money.

Believe it or not, he seems to have actually from what I can tell, toned it down a fair bit! (Based on watching a video of him on YouTube trying to do all the tube stations in a world record back in 2003).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ujIOMlofXI

TallGlass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBPG3m7vKg

EP15 - Dart to Malahide, Commuter to Drogheda and then Enterprise onto NI

goingnowhere

They did go to Tara Street, latest video on a DART northbound out of Tara Street, its there for the eagle eyed

Anesthetize

Tara Street there after the credits in the latest video.

Credit Checker Moose

Still no Roscrea.

L1011

Credit Checker Moose wrote: »

Still no Roscrea.

The service that they were on that went through Roscrea was filmed and it was marked on the map. It was done. Not every single station is shown in the edited videos.

bren2002

L1011 wrote: »

The service that they were on that went through Roscrea was filmed and it was marked on the map. It was done. Not every single station is shown in the edited videos.

Same for Sandycove & Glasthule I suppose, it's skipped in the Bray to Dublin video.

TallGlass

They where on the Ray Darcy show today

Del.Monte

TallGlass wrote: »

They where on the Ray Darcy show today

Darcy thinks Waterford has nice station.

devnull

I saw the first few episodes fully but the later videos I didn't watch fully, skipped through decent sections of them.

They seem to skip from one thing to the next quite often, not going into anything in any great depth, and generally Geoff looked pretty disinterested a lot of the times and made it feel like a chore.

Like others have said they should have slowed down a bit, explored things a bit more and gone into more detail, it just feels like they've raised some money on Kickstarter and now want to do it quickly as possible to say they did it rather than actually being interested.

The UK version was much much better if you ask me.

Ursus Horribilis

I thought the Luas one was particularly poor. It was full of filler and something they seem to have undertaken just because it was there. And going by the way they do things, it had to be all or nothing. If they'd got out at some of the stops (e.g. Museum, Stephen's Green, the remnants of Broadstone station) and explored the area it would've been better. Is there really anything to be gained by going out to the Red Cow Car Park other than saying you were there?

The Black Oil

I don't disagree on the pacing aspect. Perhaps had they stuck to one or two editors and released stuff every second day, or something it might have been better. However, I did enjoy it and we only got about 30 seconds of Barry Kenny.

Mint Sauce

I actually enjoy his youtube videos of the Underground, and British Rail. Far from a train anorak/nerd (sorry guys

), but probably just have an interest as being from there. Looking forward to watching a few of these ones, to see what he makes of our Network.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

devnull wrote: »

I saw the first few episodes fully but the later videos I didn't watch fully, skipped through decent sections of them.

They seem to skip from one thing to the next quite often, not going into anything in any great depth, and generally Geoff looked pretty disinterested a lot of the times and made it feel like a chore.

Like others have said they should have slowed down a bit, explored things a bit more and gone into more detail, it just feels like they've raised some money on Kickstarter and now want to do it quickly as possible to say they did it rather than actually being interested.

The UK version was much much better if you ask me.

Didn't they make like 25k from the Kickstarter? Mental money! Wonder did they spend it all.

CarlosHarpic

They picked the most unappealing towns to explore: tipperary, balbriggan and longford!

Del.Monte

CarlosHarpic wrote: »

They picked the most unappealing towns to explore: tipperary, balbriggan and longford!

At least they spared me by not stopping to view Dromod.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

CarlosHarpic wrote: »

They picked the most unappealing towns to explore: tipperary, balbriggan and longford!

They should've done a bit more research on the places they were getting out at and exploring.