hello do it I have a carriage all to
myself this morning um I have jumped
back on the Waterford to uh limmerick
Junction Branch I'm going to get it out
at tiporary to have a look around last
night it was dark as we came in so this
morning wanted to have a look at the
scenery along this line um you're very
welcome to all the stations
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St look at the beautiful
scenery you'll
notice no Jeff and that's because Jeff
is having his own adventure this morning
I meanwhile have come to the beach and
it's lovely I've uh come down the road
uh 7 miles uh on a bus from Waterford to
tror Seaside town of tror and I'm not
here to relax and have a nice cream I'm
here in search of the Old Railway
building that's here and evidence of the
old Waterford to Tramore
Railway I've turned the corner oh I
looked up on Google out I was heading
for the tourist information I can see
the tourist information there and as
I've turned the corner and I'm about to
cross the road the tourist information
I've seen this building here and I'm
thinking well that looks like a railway
building and this looks like the sort of
place which was once formerly a railway
car park that's got to be the railway
station
right okay we are pulling in to
Tipperary
station this is it this
tari
okay so one of the main reasons why we
wanted to come to tiporary station is
that I know tieri from the wartime song
it's a long long way to
tieri and it felt like we couldn't come
to tipari and not get out here and
explore exp that so I'm going to see in
true Vicky explore style if I can get
into the town of tipari and back again
for the train back to Waterford within
the
hour yeah the Heritage Trail is located
on Railway Square found it I'm going to
go in the tourist info anyway and there
does appear to
be like a walk you can do
interesting oh man
it is only
open man of Fridays and it is a
Saturday I'll go back to the sign who
says it always rains in Ireland we've
had nothing but like gorgeous sunny
weather I love
it that's tempered fate now it now it'll
now start raining like in 10 minutes
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you'll probably be familiar with the
song It's a Long Way to Tipperary it has
long been associated with the first
world war it was however a popular
musical tune even before the War Began
its connection to the war however was
perhaps started by an article in the
Daily Mail in 1914 which reported that
the Conor regiment an Irish regiment
based in gway used to sing the song in
France to boost
morale over the years the people of
tipari have understandably become a
little bit upset about their constant
connection to war and so in
1983 they started the tiporary Peace
Prize the idea being to promote peace
through music and discussion tiporary is
of course much more than just the song
itself the town has medieval Origins and
you can take various walks around the
town to go to key locations and find out
about notable people who have lived
here I made it back I'm on the train
that was tiporary
I wonder what Jeff's been up to I'm back
at the Heritage sign
cuz the tourist info was closed tror
basically uh is a beautiful little
Seaside town so Waterford is in Land by
about 7 mils and back in 1853 they
opened up this separate Railway but the
thing is the thing is it was a separate
Railway it was never connected to the
main Railway Network at Waterford and
that probably led to its demise and in
1960 right at the end actually on the
31st of December it closed and buses
became the preferred method of Transport
there's a brilliant fact I found online
where
the rubber compan rubber company did a
sneaky thing where the last scheduled
train never ran so that people couldn't
protest that the last train was actually
around 2:00 in the afternoon but it
brought thousands of people down to the
seaside so there's black and white
pictures here of people you know
enjoying a good old Irish I was going to
say British a good old Irish day out um
at the seaside uh coming down from
Waterford to tror but it closed in 1960
and all that's left uh is this Railway
building the old station building the
bus station is now next to it and a line
area here I guess the railway tracks and
buffers used to be tror Railway the W
and T The Waterford and tror
Railway no
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more you can totally walk I haven't seen
anything that says don't walk here I've
not seen any sign just to make it clear
there have been no signs that say not do
not inter or no trespassing hey Vicki
yes
there's a help point please wait please
wait I don't think it's been used in a
very long time do you want to do you
want to give it a go give it it says
press and hold there's nothing to press
or hold talk us through where the
facilities are used to be oh okay where
did you think they used to be stuff
platform
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one uh we have lighting uh
Street lighting platform lighting rather
I believe this used to be the shelter
which probably contained a
telephone uh so you could uh make a
quick
call um Services were one train a day in
either direction you're just making up
now aren't you I think that's actually
true it was uh two trains a day one in
each direction as you can see from the
local foliage the community rail
partnership here have been working hard
on their flower beds
they've gone for a wildf flower
feel sorry I'm having an Upton moment
and also you never saw we had a British
red car still moment where we readjusted
the sign but this sign is clearly I
think needs to
be it's not oh it's rusted it's not
going to move I was trying to rotate it
round oh but it ain't moving but if
there was do you think there two
platform I think I was just saying I
think there were clearly there was a
there was a passing Loop here so it's
facing the right way it probably was
facing that way abandoned
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station I'm having a strange day uh
yesterday there's a gentleman to my
right laughing yesterday I was on the
radio and we were chatting about the
abandoned Waterford to
rosair
line there's a river to the east of
Waterford now is it the back the what's
it called uh the River Shore the River
Shore here but the bridge is called the
Barrow Bridge the Barrow bridge I became
aware of an Old Railway Bridge and then
after being on the radio uh the nice
gentleman called Jeff got my number
don't know how uh just randomly text me
to say I'm free tomorrow Jeff his name
is Jeff as well shall I drive you and
we'll see if we can go and find the old
bridge which is why I find myself in a
car with with this man here there's the
river and we're heading for to take a
ferry to drive up an Old Country Lane
and to try and find the Old Railway
Bridge it's a crazy
day
no this place is nuts during the summer
so this is a little Crossing called
passage East passage
East um
an old guy used roll across the
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river shouldn't have done that should I
or maybe I
should I didn't use this bloody fairy
for a what
the my God I think he said go go to to
his yeah
so this is the river and the bridge is
somewhere up there I'm on a boat not a
train
cool it's very exciting we just ignored
the GPS when it said turn left and turn
right and I'm using my own map M and the
bridge is just 2 minutes
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away okay and the bridge there it there
it is there it is there it is it's just
there it is is it where there the bridge
is there it's definitely the bridge
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all
my all Myer told all
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you may be familiar with the song It's a
Long Way to tipari which has become
known
as oh why can't I do this stop thinking
about it stop thinking about it so
what's great is we now have a car alarm
a car just there it's going off
come on temporary
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a
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