good morning it is Tuesday the 26th of
March it's extremely
Sunny uh welcome to Costa Del bra um
we're at Bray head and I'm
just walking up to the
top why do I always have to do the
walking
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so
Vicki is up
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there whil I'm in charge we getting the
shot down
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here so I'm heading for that
cross steeper than what I thought it
would
be I shall not be defeated
oh there might
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be okay I made it the cross is just up
there to my
left is the incredible incredible
Bray welcome to all the stations
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what do you think it's cute what's cute
it's got new M the train is it's cute
the new quain I think it might be I
don't know the cute green train I do
keep I do want to keep saying cute
rather than quaint why is that I don't
know okay uh we're heading for D yes
we're heading at the dark yes we're
going to meet a man yes called Dan yes
that
rhymes yes like an Irish
Limerick are you ready
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Jeff hi there you know we have our music
that goes
I think we need 20 seconds of that with
interior shots of the D train would you
be okay with
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that don't
kill
chck Kini Kini not
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Kini we've come to where we where are we
where are we uh delke dely where there's
apparently some remains remnants a
little bit history with an atmospheric
Railway we also tipped off by a local
that we're traveling at 10:00 in the
morning now but like 8:30 8:15 it's sort
of like akin to the Jubilee yeah I was
going to say like the northern line at
at CLA yeah it's oh yeah that's worse
that is worse it's it's
red this is dokey station I just wanted
to point out that our you guys are
everywhere I go you guys are there we
are everywhere I don't know who that is
our explorer tickets that we've got the
uh the Rover tickets are valid on the
dart but a lot of people have these they
have leap cards leap with a little frog
now we will be using these when we do um
the Dublin TRS the ls but we just
spotted this poster outside showing you
that in the same way that what we're
used to with tfl in London with Fair
capping the daily cap for an adult is
€950 so that's about £7 to us student
is7 and a child is a child cap is €320
presumably for all day and there's a
weekly cap as well uh so get a a leap
card and that is valid on all the commu
services I believe oh cranky YouTube
will so correct me if I'm wrong in the
Dublin area get a leap card what you
what you taking pictures a snap of what
is it the old tram tracks the old dkey
Tramway this isn't what we came to see
this is this is something bonus but also
there's a castle what where's the castle
time for a quick Vick explores right
this
way this is the first of many visits to
castles in Ireland this is dorky castle
one of seven fortified uh houses within
dorkey it was originally used to store
goods and it was fortified to protect
people from plundering those goods later
in its history it was known as the goats
Castle after the quest of the sheas
family um who lived here and you can
still see their flag uh flying
today I'm rolling I've often wondered
how this works so you you sit
cross-legged set the tripod up and then
just talk yes okay it's nice no don't
let me stop you I like the three goats
have you seen the three goats on the
flag just what's what's the relevance
what's the relevance of the goats like
the coat of arms of of the family tell
me what you tell me so it's the and the
goats were the coat of arms of the what
the family okay you're ruining it now
okay all right it's a nice little castle
though yes we did actually come for the
atmospheric Railway though we don't have
time for the castle there'll be proper
castles later okay there'll be proper
castles this is the proper car can we go
yes okay but it's a small one
not the hardest bit is getting
up
thanks and the little green dark train
rum was blow in that direction which is
pertinent to our story because now it's
going from D to dorky in 1844 it
couldn't do that because it was steam
trains and steam trains wen't powerful
enough to get up the hill it's a huge
gradient right here so they had an
atmospheric Railway installed like to
pump and push the trains up in here this
location so Crossing nowadays is where
the pumping station was and the only
clue left behind that there was an
atmospheric Railway here was a sign
saying atmosph Road
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the train we've come to gleni we did a
little walk yes just wanted to note that
we're on the newer type of DART train
with a slightly different seat formation
and then our next stop is D well
pronounce we're going to meet Dan cool
and you're going to chat to Dan yes
about the fact that it used to be called
Kingstown yes and why and why and all
the history behind it um t on train ging
what does that mean this is a lovely
train
so Dan do you know what Dan looks like I
think that might be him there hello is
that Dan ask this man is this is Dan
hello Dan good to see you Dan har we've
just met
Dan group group group hug Dan y are you
prepared to tell us some history about
I'll give you a bit about the Dublin
king toown railway first of all D Larry
am I saying that correctly everyone in D
call d d officially it's not officially
it's only got one name in Irish Duna so
if you ever watch a news or anything
formal you'll see they'll call it dun
but everyone calls it dun which is just
the Irish version of it
dun um wasn't called that originally it
was called King town there wasn't really
anything here before the harbor was
built about just over 200 years ago now
they decided to build a big Harbor here
which is the one you see now now there's
a small settlement around here called
Duna at the time but there really wasn't
anything near the size you see today
King George came over to visit and it
was named after him kwn so the place is
renamed for the first time then and they
needed to get people from the harbor
into Dublin which is what prompted the
building of the Railway the Dublin and
Kingstown Railway now there were earlier
passenger Railways in the UK but this
was the first one that was really a
short distance people traveling in and
out for work and stuff and so what's it
like um traveling from dun lry now what
is it is it a busy line in the morning
it can be incredibly busy absolutely
Heaven just standing space only you're
trying to shoulder yourself in when it's
a day like this kind of around midday
it's so gorgeous because you come around
Bray hedge you look out over Kini Bay
then you're into Dublin Bay and you see
all that and if you continue around to
hope it's one of the most gorgeous bits
of way of getting in and out of town in
any place I've been I love this
absolutely love this we've got the
weather for it as well oh yeah you do
don't you Dan thank you so much that's
no problem thank
you this is sort Hill
ising oh my God look at the sign hold it
out look at that look at that we have
met this young this young gentleman
called Harry who made us a sign at C
Point as the train departs Harry give me
an amazing fact about C Point Station
it's the leasy station on the whole
entire Dart Network that's amaz that is
amazing we've done the least you
stations should we get Vicki to measure
it in feet I I think we should 1 2 3
four five and Harry is adjudicating to
make sure that she's doing it properly
is is she doing is she doing it properly
six 7 8 9 I'm going to cut away now and
just assume that they W I'll see you at
the other end of the platform
57 they're doing it trust me they're
doing it they're doing it 40 15 60
8485 so 585 so Harry the official C
Point count in Vicky Feast is
585 that is forever recorded right you
yeah can I give my brother a shout out
can you give your brother a shout out of
course you can can I give I just want to
say thanks to my brother for me he told
me to do this so yeah what's your
brother's name em the Ryan okay and you
have a younger brother or sister too M
sister okay you should give her a shout
out as well I want to give my sister a
shout out as well okay bye bye bye
guys bye Vicki bye Jeff bye and
that did you break your heart that was
Harry and that is how and that is how to
dece Harry and Pamela should be here for
every every en lighting pass as long as
they bring anyway we've still got 10
more stations until we we're heading to
Dublin we're heading to like Dublin
proper big big city Dublin ready for
that cool
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okay Pierce and we're getting out at
Pierce uh and here we're going to go
to do something else
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so we got a pierce station uh we
actually went to uh a little press
presentation about Metro Link so a
couple of screen grabs on screen now
about the metro line that they want to
build the metro line in Dublin to
connect up to the airport and swords and
Beyond and then we're coming out to the
house house I've pronounced that wrong
Branch host thank you Vicky but we've
deliberately left it to the evening Rush
Hour commuter time because we wanted to
sort of experience what it's like
traveling and doubling at the commu time
so I think the train we're about to get
on might be quite busy my busy face
that's your busy face VI is it is it
busy
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St stage
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that's satton and the water has opened
up ho is next which is a little Charming
uh fishing
Village right on the edge of the
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water ah the seagulls are
back I have seagulls in Ireland too
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so I'm trying to get up
to uh what I think is an 18th century
martello tower now a
museum I'm finding a bit difficult to
find a way up apparently in between to
find
a entrance in between two houses
but well there's the old
church behind me is a mtell tower a
small defensive structure built in the
19th century today the Martell Tower
here in Hope is home to the herdy gery
radio
Museum the room
church here in hoath is that of St
Mary's ABY and there has been a church
on that site here since the 11th century
that was it that was our day we end up
leaving from host I can't say it so
we're going to get the train back to
Dublin where we stay the night and
tomorrow we're heading for uh TR that
will be tomorrow's video thank you for
watching thank you so much to all the
Irish trains the eron raron trains thank
that
one bye
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stations all all stations all all the
stations all all
I'm rolling I've often wondered how this
works what do you crawl down so you sit
down you find somewhere to sit on the
floor yeah and you just point yeah you
need to do that
again that's not on my nose yeah that's
the
that's good job I love you love you too