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good morning good morning it is Monday
the 25th of March 2019 where are we Jeff
rosair EUR report in Ireland for all the
stations Ireland uh 198 stations we're
staring here in the Southeast Corner
going to work our way around irland and
Northern Island for the next 2 and 1/
half weeks are you excited there's going
to be m to the Irish trains all of them
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just before the train leaves this
morning I wanted to come to the end of
the
platform uh you can't really see it from
here and I didn't have enough time to
walk around oh and now I've got a
perfect view of the Irish fairies and
that's what I was going to say is that
the train line used to curve off here it
used to go like across there so imagine
it coming down and used to curve across
there across there across there across
there and used to go right down to where
the fairies are boat
side anyway let's get a train
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Vicky hello we're about to do officially
leave station number one we are I'm
going to do in Instagram story you're
doing Instagram all right I'm just going
to get on
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video Vicky hello an important thing yes
we're going to be seeing a lot of
this we're going to be seeing a lot of
this blue they're talking Irish
your thoughts your instant thoughts on
the mikette is it is it really a mikette
no mikette is a French word for carpet
so the texture of mikette is is like a
very hardwearing carpet so it's like a
Woolen material this is upholstery um
but it's very nice the color's nice it's
uh it's uh comfy have you posted it on
Instagram not yet cuz you poting the
camera in
my something that happened on all the
stations in Britain is that it was
impossible to get a shot of all 2563
stations the videos would have been just
dominated by that but with only only 198
stations here in Ireland and Northern
Ireland uh we're going to definitely
Endeavor to have a clip of every single
station in the videos which means here's
a bit of Ross L Str for
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you is that right wa what you smiling at
I'm having fun it's only been 5
minutes so back in 2017 something we did
was awkward station of the day so I'm
about to put a tweet out and then uh you
then send in your graphics which you
design and the winning one appears on
the screen now cuz today we're only
doing 11 stations we're going to come up
the line from rosle ort we're not going
all the way to Dublin today we're going
to go to somewhere called uh greystones
then reverse to knock out a station
called kill cool which only gets two
trains in the morning going north and
three stops in the evening going south
and we've got a reverse from greystones
through Kil to wilo reverse again to go
up to bra for the night to catch one of
those evening Services through Kil call
so uh the winning graphic will be on the
screen sometime around now
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um we're approaching Wexford what what
happens at Wexford uh so at Wexford the
train as it is now goes along the key
the parade there were no barriers uh
between the train and the public and
luckily at the weekend we were here to
experience for
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ourselves we're right on the key some
people have been calling it the parade
in Wexford and you can hear in the
background uh the train is coming and
there are no barriers between the public
and the train itself the train has to go
through a very sedate fix M hour um
walking place a bit like having a tram
uh going through the center of City
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so you can see the train right behind me
and the tracks are just
there if I ran I could probably overtake
it but I have just had breakfast
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and it's cool and it's
cool and it's cool looks like
that something very exciting has just
happened in the
distance we heard the we heard the
clinking of the cups we heard it before
we saw it yeah we heard the in
it's a trolley of China and Crockery
Here Comes
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breakfast it's
busy yeah g let's go foot
Bridge it's getting busier what's the
time oh it's half l so people are
obviously on their way to work on their
way to college or school so yeah numbers
are picking up
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service I don't know what that means
what does fa F Fel
mean I don't know uh let's get down Sun
Let's Get Down sun it's 8:40 in the
morning we haven't had breakfast yet
we've made it to AR which is near to the
Village of aoka it's 15 minutes the road
so we get breakfast in in in ARL and
then uh I suspect a Vicki explores in
aoga the village of avoka is probably
best known um as the filming location
for Bal kiss Angel which was a TV show
on BBC in the UK and
rte1 in Ireland and it told the story of
uh an English priest from Manchester who
came to take over look after the church
here um in what was called bica angel
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one of the most famous filming locations
for Bal angel in avoka is Fitzgerald's
Pub where assumpta Fitzgerald
worked it's not too early is
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it Vicki come join me on the bench you
need to do the uh the passenger figures
for the least used station in avoka oh
they are cuz we're on the bench zero H
there used to be a station here mhm no
more closed many many years ago but the
train line goes through sorry to do the
finger thing but this is clearly an
abandoned platform of the old aoka
station and also you've done the balik
angel thing but it's not just famous for
B Angel what else is it famous for uh it
used to be copper mining here for many
many uh hundreds of years uh there is
just up the road the hand weav Mill
which I think we should go and see well
let's go do that now do it now go go
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go the hand Weaver meal here in avoka um
has been here since 1723 it was a co-op
meal where local farmers could come and
bring their wool and have it spun today
you can uh come and have look around for
free you can see the Weavers in action
and then you can even buy a product made
here uh in the shop they also have a
lovely Cafe with a great
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chocolate I was on do you think that
Weavers get more fluff in their belly
button than the normal
people I B something from the
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shop okay we got to go catch the train
now sorry back to the
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station train number two
we go 45
minutes up to greystones and then we
reverse cuz we're doing the kill called
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Shuffle r
drum tick I do believe that was our
first tick W drum again tick I haven't I
can't believe it's taken me until W drum
to
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tick it's just got super Scenic out the
window cuz we're right by the coastline
and we're about to go through kill Co
Scenic it's the the DART train is there
that's the little DART train oh my God
look at my except we're not getting it
we're not getting it yet no we have to
get off this side yeah so we're at
greystones we got to go back and then
later we'll then get I don't know
whether we change you again but this is
where the dark drains terminate this is
the southern Point yeah but we're right
by
we're right by the beach do matrix it's
our first do Matrix indicator right it's
in red not
orange uh and we got to wait for the
train
going south but it is right by the sea
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uh whilst we're waiting for our train we
met a chap called Marcus who told us
that these Railways you see here through
this great that lead to Nowhere used to
lead to a railway turntable which is now
where the car park is great fact Markus
thanks
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this is the big kill cor M all day has
been building to this are you going to
jump out and take a photo and there are
people getting off at kill coal
look yeah it stops here in an hour again
you on camera yeah that's all say hi he
how's it
going welcome to the goose P Republic
see you later is see you man take
breaches on the way back okay take care
K
cool take
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so this is Wicklow we've got to wait
here for an hour and a
bit time for
tea it's
cute hang on it's cute is it quaint uh
we haven't had the quaint word out yet
oh maybe quaint is cute in Ireland
light is fading it's getting dark which
never happened in 217 cuz we did it at
the height of Summer but the clocks do
go forward next week during our trip the
clocks go forward and it and it'll be
lighter in the evening that that's a
great thing except oh on with the day we
do tiporary waterfood might be dark then
but we're is that CU it's a long way to
tiporary it's cuz it's a long way to
okay uh the light is fading our train is
approaching we'll leave with a fading
shot of our train it's the end of the
first day of travel second video two but
end of day one on the trains it's been a
12-hour day it's been awesome amazing
thank you Island thank you Island we'll
see you tomorrow
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it's
all
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all it is Monday uh it is the 25th let's
do that again we'll be back we back on
Fourth 3 second silence this one D this
one this will be the
B good morning good morning it is Monday
the 25th of
March that was my line