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good morning good morning good morning
good morning I don't know the
rest while Vicki sings that let me tell
you it's Wednesday the 27th of March
2019 we're at Dublin Houston we're
heading west and south on the 11:00 cork
train to mow and TR including awkward
station of the day temp more you want to
say it welcome to all the
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stations
St all
St is it me or is it distinctly
blue tint to this train think the
windows are slightly T tinted dear video
editors I think it's down today and this
isn't an ass sign you can put this in
down um if you want to kind of debl the
video at this point yeah good
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luck yeah whilst we wait for our blue
tinted train to leave you got a picture
of the of the plaque of sha Houston I do
know my Irish history I know why Houston
Station is named as it is how however
however like a million people all right
20 on Twitter were like you should make
the joke about Houston Houston with an O
Texas and that if the train was late or
delayed then you could be like Houston
we have a
problem read your Irish history and look
up sha Houston uh sha Houston was born
in Dublin and he worked as a clerk with
the Great Southern and Western Railway
company he led the fina Aon contingent
that Ed hundreds of rifles um at hoath
in July 1914 during Easter 1916 he was a
captain in the Irish
volunteers um and he held out for 2 days
against overwhelming odds until forces
to surrender he was executed on the 8th
of May
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1916 so I picked up some paper time
table cuz I love a paper timetable and I
love that it's it's so simple it's just
like a single piece of paper folded the
Ros air line is just a single piece of
paper not even folded but you can see
here that the 11:00 train is the only
one that stops at templemore that gets
three services a day the two the other
two aren't until later uh this evening
also some people have been asking what
tickets we've been using and we've got
these these cost €160 they're called
Irish explorers and over a period of 15
days you manually write in the date that
you wish to travel and you can travel on
from 5 days out of 15 these differ
slightly from the trer tickets that you
can get which just allow you four
contiguous days of travel in a row
anyway we are using Irish explorers I'm
also excited cuz we're on a local hold
train did you realize there's a loc at
the front so it's a proper train it's a
proper train it's locco h carriages and
I believe that there's a buffet and
first class on board so later on I'm
going to go for a little wand and find
the buffet in first class we're on a
property train got a coffee not tea on
the go it's a good day it's a it's a
good the sun's out it's a blue tinted
Sun but the sun is
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out so this is Port leash
how was your Port leash experience sunny
sunny um have you seen what's behind you
Jeff I have not seen
that Irish Rail had there some more
trains oh my work my light what so it's
flashing Temple more it's flashing red
as the next stop oh that's really good
isn't it
we will shortly arrive at Temple thank
you traveling with
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there the Sun is bright the sky is blue
Temple Mo we love you tick oh they're
putting a ramp down so we got a few
seconds at Temple more Awkward station
of the day complete the fact about
templemore that everyone says it's where
the Gard training station is do you
think it has the lowest crime rate in
Island it probably has the lowest crime
rate in irland but Temple M
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tick Limer Junction tick tick tick tick
uh it's a complicated thing for the
train sort of coming in and out however
that is the train to Limerick itself
limmer Junction nowhere near
limeri the catering snack bar which is
located towards the rear of the train is
now open do you hear that snack
bar it's time to find the snack
bar so in there is first class
it's the two Corridor one style
suating uh so I'm not going to go in
don't have a ticket uh our explorer
tickets are only standard class but the
snack bar is
here two bar teas please thank you we've
discovered in
Ireland there's two types of tea barries
and lions it's a little bit like PG tips
versus Yorkshire in Britain
and Irish Ralph seems to serve Bar's tea
and not
VES make it that what you will milk
sugar just milk please uh
550 thank thank you very
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much Charlie bille is where they make
the
cheese um and on their website they say
do eat charville in 1 cm fix ABS don't
apologize for it banish the
Bland banish the Bland yeah so we should
get some charville cheese and try it out
and banish the Bland and banish the
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Bland thank you for traveling with ear
on road Aaron please change here at mow
for your connecting Trend you taken a
copy of go rail magazine get one go rail
go
rail I don't know who Gavin James is but
take a copy it's a timetable connection
so even though we're about 5 minutes
late it should uh it should be waiting
for us yes yes do you remember what the
world was like when it wasn't tinted
blue no me
neither and
that so this is our train this is our
driver that's the train we were just
done so we can't go until that train has
gone
first welcome to mow
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we're at rmore
station uh we've had we had a lot of
double track on the way down to uh to
mow here it's a little bit single track
uh and now CSO that's the customer
service operative tells us that we
definitely won't leave until the one up
from TR comes up so we're going to we're
going to stand here for a few
minutes this is quaint no it's cute you
but you've switched the cute but I think
it was cute and now it's quaint it's
tipped into
the I I think I think it's cuz we've
come into the South the Southwest so so
maybe instead of a scale that is like
180° maybe it's actually it's a 360°
Circle it's like cute cute cute cute
quain but you're giving wrath more some
quaintness yeah okay cuz look at the Old
Iron Bridge Old Iron Bridge lovely
signal
box level crossing train
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we saw the train come in I mean I'm just
glad not to be in a blue tinted world
anymore it occurred to me it's a bit
like the Matrix you know in The Matrix
everything has got a slight green tint
to it oh sure yeah I don't think I'm as
familiar with the Matrix as you are so
the Houston toor Service is like the
Matrix but just with a blue
hue blue hue blue hue maybe that could
be the title of today's episode blue hue
that's fun to say
it was a lady driver it was a lady
driver it was a lady I told I said Thank
You driver so we made it to Kanani with
a gorgeous old sign where interestingly
the train comes in yeah and then it has
to reverse out again yeah and then it
has to change directions again to go
around the curve of track to carry on up
up
to thany so much okay thank you so much
okay you're you're on now enjoy okay
okay bye
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okay so Kanani station is nice and all
it's cute the town is cute but there is
another reason why we chose to get out
at an would you like to introduce that
reason welcome to Russ Castle
taada can I go look around no we haven't
got any
time yeah we've got time let's do it
let's
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go this is the incredible Ross castle it
was built in the 15th century uh by the
odonahue clan it's what's known as a
fortified Tower house um which is very
different to the kind of normal castles
that we have in the UK it's very tall
Square Tower um the lower floors have
the arrow slits for uh archers and
Defenders to to fire out of at the top
you get the uh living apartments the the
great Halls they also have what are
called
mashal um which if you can just see here
is the overhanging section corner of the
tower here which allowed Defenders to
throw things directly down onto enemies
blow fortified Tower houses like this
were built by Irish Lords uh to deny
Authority and control over their land
the history of Ross castle is a
centuries old struggle between Irish
Lords and Irish control and the English
wanting to gain control of
Ireland Rosas is on the edge of what is
now known as Lo lean and it's said that
the chieftain odonahue uh is just
sleeping at the bottom of the lock um
and every seven years he awakes and he
rides around the lock on a magnificent
white Steed and if you're lucky enough
to see him um it will bring you good
fortune and good luck for the rest of
your
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life not today
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Dan
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we've arrived at
TR 3 minutes
early what an ni R 3 minutes early um
tomorrow we do uh Cork and Cove which
I'm very much looking forward to and a
bit of local Irish bent uh that we've
heard is that if you're from Cork they
say that that is the true capital of
Ireland so we'll be joining in with the
Irish banter you're gonna get us kicked
out of no I just want to have some of
that fun the local commuter system in
Cove uh spelled c o BH tricky and we'll
do that tomorrow you right you're right
all right see you then thank this is
episode four or five now I've lost track
already lost track already bye bye from
TR bye from TR
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