Geoff Marshall / All The Stations

TallGlass · 09-04-2019 10:44AM

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 · 09-04-2019 10:52AM

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 · 09-04-2019 01:05PM

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 · 09-04-2019 01:48PM

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

Grandeeod · 09-04-2019 08:44PM

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 · 09-04-2019 09:26PM

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 · 10-04-2019 06:46AM

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

Thrashssacre · 10-04-2019 09:20AM

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 · 10-04-2019 11:29AM

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 · 10-04-2019 06:04PM

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

Luas today!

Ursus Horribilis · 10-04-2019 09:58PM

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 · 11-04-2019 08:11AM

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 · 11-04-2019 12:25PM

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 · 11-04-2019 02:59PM

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 · 11-04-2019 06:23PM

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

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

goingnowhere · 11-04-2019 06:47PM

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

Anesthetize · 11-04-2019 08:24PM

Tara Street there after the credits in the latest video.

Credit Checker Moose · 11-04-2019 08:31PM

Still no Roscrea.

L1011 · 11-04-2019 09:04PM

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 · 11-04-2019 09:34PM

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 · 12-04-2019 05:14PM

They where on the Ray Darcy show today

Del.Monte · 12-04-2019 05:50PM

TallGlass wrote: »

They where on the Ray Darcy show today

Darcy thinks Waterford has nice station.

devnull · 12-04-2019 06:05PM

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 · 12-04-2019 07:01PM

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 · 12-04-2019 07:04PM

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 · 12-04-2019 08:33PM

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 · 12-04-2019 09:44PM

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 · 12-04-2019 11:18PM

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

Del.Monte · 13-04-2019 11:30AM

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 · 13-04-2019 02:20PM

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.

Geoff Marshall / All The Stations

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