Geoff Marshall / All The Stations

The Black Oil · 07-04-2019 7:23pm

I remember Celtworld. Didn't expect it to have its down Wiki page.

Credit Checker Moose · 07-04-2019 7:30pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=094AZp6ZyrE

L1011 · 08-04-2019 7:25pm

Nice to see the Hells Kitchen collection is still intact and maintained even if the pub still isn't trading as far as I know (was certainly no spirits on the optics for instance)

Grandeeod · 08-04-2019 9:34pm

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.

Thrashssacre · 08-04-2019 9:39pm

Grandeeod wrote: »

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.

He certainly doesn’t seem to have the same enthusiasm as he did during a lot of the previous all the stations, suppose he has a greater knowledge of the network on his end and is more involved with it. Plus I mean realistically Ireland’s network isn’t exactly exciting even to someone seeing it for the first time. The fleet is a lot more uniform

L1011 · 08-04-2019 9:51pm

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.

Del.Monte · 09-04-2019 10:43am

Still enjoying the series but I spotted this on the wall of a pub during the Galway visit! The curse of being a pedant.

dulpit · 09-04-2019 11:32am

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...

Credit Checker Moose · 09-04-2019 11:36am

So Roscrea and Tara Street remain shunned.

neris · 09-04-2019 11:41am

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

TallGlass · 09-04-2019 11:44am

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 11:52am

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 2:05pm

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 2:48pm

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

Grandeeod · 09-04-2019 9:44pm

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 10:26pm

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 7:46am

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

Thrashssacre · 10-04-2019 10:20am

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 12:29pm

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 7:04pm

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

Luas today!

Ursus Horribilis · 10-04-2019 10:58pm

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 9:11am

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 1:25pm

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 3:59pm

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 7:23pm

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

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

goingnowhere · 11-04-2019 7:47pm

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 9:24pm

Tara Street there after the credits in the latest video.

Credit Checker Moose · 11-04-2019 9:31pm

Still no Roscrea.

L1011 · 11-04-2019 10:04pm

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 10:34pm

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 6:14pm

They where on the Ray Darcy show today

Del.Monte · 12-04-2019 6:50pm

TallGlass wrote: »

They where on the Ray Darcy show today

Darcy thinks Waterford has nice station.

devnull · 12-04-2019 7:05pm

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 8:01pm

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 8:04pm

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 9:33pm

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 10:44pm

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 · 13-04-2019 12:18am

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

Del.Monte · 13-04-2019 12:30pm

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 3:20pm

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.

Lord Glentoran · 13-04-2019 4:01pm

Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote: »

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

Clearly the timetable decided where they were going - Cahir Castle would have been impossible to do with the turnaround between the outward and return journey from Waterford.

Ursus Horribilis · 13-04-2019 4:18pm

Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote: »

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

They could have done with talking to an Irish person back at the planning stage. They rattled through so many places that had interesting buildings/features they could've easily got to from the railway station.

Stephen15 · 13-04-2019 9:50pm

Episode 16 visiting the Bangor and Larne lines on the Belfast suburban network is now up I thought it was one of the better ones so far.

Credit Checker Moose · 13-04-2019 9:59pm

They missed out Downpatrick.

Del.Monte · 14-04-2019 8:05pm

Another thing - like the inexcusably bad spelling on the pub in Galway - that drives me potty is this.

I haven't been in Bangor since the 1980s and I seem to remember the station was a right dump - now we have an impressive new structure but there's a letter missing from the name. I wonder how long it has been missing? Surely it is not beyond the wit of those designing these structures to make sure that replacement letters are readily available or that the lettering in the first place is simple and can be sourced virtually anywhere. The crumbling edge of quality.

PS I know that it probably isn't noticed by anybody apart from me but attention to detail is everything in my little world.

Letter on its way to Translink.

Grandeeod · 14-04-2019 9:24pm

Geoff seems to think Translink has a better railway!

Quick connections etc. etc. According to last nights episode anyway. I accept Irish Rail is mucky as feck, but Translink and it's Unionist butchered rail network???? How bizarre! Sorry folks, but this pair have absolutely no knowledge of how it all panned out. Respect lost. Sorry.

Ursus Horribilis · 14-04-2019 9:44pm

It's the superficiality of it that killed it for me. I like the idea of what they did but the end result was a bit sloppy and disappointing.

goingnowhere · 14-04-2019 9:44pm

Translink is head and shoulders above Irish Rail when it comes to customer experience.

They keep things simple and low tech and have a fleet of trains suited to the job

Grandeeod · 14-04-2019 10:35pm

goingnowhere wrote: »

Translink is head and shoulders above Irish Rail when it comes to customer experience.

They keep things simple and low tech and have a fleet of trains suited to the job

But Geoffs comments as a comparison just come across as a pro UK load of baloney. I say this as a big critic of Irish Rail. Yet again, Translink as a comparison??

Jamie2k9 · 14-04-2019 11:18pm

Grandeeod wrote: »

Geoff seems to think Translink has a better railway!

Quick connections etc. etc. According to last nights episode anyway. I accept Irish Rail is mucky as feck, but Translink and it's Unionist butchered rail network???? How bizarre! Sorry folks, but this pair have absolutely no knowledge of how it all panned out. Respect lost. Sorry.

Your reading to much into the comments...

I have not done much travel with NIR however in some respects they have a better railway. Frequency is typically 30-60 minutes on all routes off peak and even more during peak hours. Of course this is possible because of the network size and density of population in NI.

Down here we are operating a timetable almost 6.5 years old with services been slotted in here and there and continue to ignore major issues. Minimal changes could deliver an enhanced services and make better use of resources but they are not particularly interested in that.

Geoff Marshall / All The Stations

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