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this Monday the first of April April
Fool's Day hello do it weekend in
Waterford is over where we going today
at Dublin fire and Kilkenny
that's it nice simple easy should we do
it let's do it
to the trains all of them
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when we came in on Friday night it was
dark it gets the end of the river now we
can see it two things to note
incredibly sad Joseph Plunkett whom this
station is named after I was reading the
his Irish history book over the weekend
before he was executed as part of the
the 1916 uprising he was married for
just 15 minutes they allow them to be
married before his execution read up on
the history it's very sad and somber for
a Monday morning slightly more
excitingly getting back to the trains we
noticed on this train this morning
there's not a first-class there's a
premier class it's a bit like when we
did and the Gerald train and Wales made
our third class they have business class
anyway gone our way and Vicky is going
to explain that now good today nice new
teacher thanks we're travelling
currently on the line from Waterford up
to Dublin and we're gonna get out of
Kilkenny we have a very tricky
pronunciation of the station after Kimi
yes not the actual name is it or
something but yeah so we should be at a
local do that definitely on the way and
then we'd be in the day we end the day
back at Dublin I've also got a new
t-shirt
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once you got out
you may recall when you signed up to
watch all the stations are in the small
print we did endeavor to get a picture /
video clip every station which is why
this it's Thomas Council hello almost
expected I forgot me right at the phone
Thomas town and back on the chain
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we've got to kill Kenny we've given Paul
one of our Flyers calls now going to
look at our website why'd you not the
railways Paul you do not the railways
right good money
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well I can already see the cursor is
there time to get because yes I will
make time
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there are literally a hundred things I
want to do Thank You Kenny
but we can't do them all I've downloaded
a map of the medieval mile and we're
gonna see how much I can traverse on
what sites I can discover sanjana's
Priory
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assistant John's bridger supposed to be
a castle and here somewhere
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the medieval Mile Museum is the official
start of the medieval mile tour it's
inside this beautiful converted 13th
century Church and it tells you the
story of Kilkenny
from its medieval origins the town hall
behind me and was built in 1761 and this
columned arcade area was originally a
marketplace Kilkenny is also the
location of the first recorded person to
have been convicted and killed for the
crime of witchcraft
Alice kettle of who lived in this house
behind me was accused of witchcraft
along with several other of her
associates but it wasn't Alice who
eventually burnt at the stake it was her
servant petronella de mith who was
tortured and confessed to witchcraft and
she died on the 3rd of November 13:24
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Coquina is just full of these tiny
treasure troves little alleyways nooks
and crannies the hole in the wall looks
like an amazing cafe coffee place it's
just got no time there's no time
Kilkenny castle is just incredible
surprisingly it is unlike the other
castles we've seen so far on our journey
this is actually a norman style castle
the Normans came to island in the 12th
century and Kilkenny was one of the
curses they originally built first of
all it was a wooden fortress and later
rebuilt in stone
this here in kilkenny station is the old
station button the line used to carry on
back in the day along to the port leash
no more but the remains of the old
station still here that's it quick train
fact maybe we should put it quick train
crackers on my whistle
got to get my train
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nuna blog which is known as I can't sell
it to I've only learned to say muna of
York what does it actually know it's big
Aniston I think oh my god when so much
trouble
the point is noon of York is what it's
officially called on a map apparently
nobody calls it that from my defense it
is lunchtime so that how is that a
defense oh it's not filming
it's not a good look to film so I'm an
eating or drinking I always say this
know why because it's true
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Carlo tick we've met ed hey guys you
brought us a bag of goodies yeah are you
from Carlo I live in Kerala it was an
amazing fact about and if you're
watching this I really think we had more
time and I was going to get ed to give
us some fact about our ad you legit Oh
well you're gonna be fine
Kildare thank you for traveling with
your brother thank you for having us
I've got a change in Newbridge after
this our train goes fast fast fast to
Dublin I don't know why I said like that
sometimes so this is when I was cases
where a train long-distance train and
then goes fast and doesn't stop at the
sort of the stopping services we're
changing to the stopping service so we
can knock out things like in salads and
mass and hazel hatch and somewhere we're
going to change the stopper to the
suburban Dublin stopper as we head back
into Dublin and I've got no idea because
it is unlike an adjacent platform or
over a footbridge so we're about to find
out
so that we get a lovely lady in the
platform down there has told us that our
trains the stopping service that's come
up from Portia leach the one that's on
over on that other Bay platform and
platform three is the rare service that
goes through the tunnel and doesn't go
into Houston it goes around through the
tunnel and into Connolly and down to
Grand Canal Dock we should catch that we
should get the the tunnel train
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which is the new bridge at Newbridge
city making a tacky new bridge joke can
I just get a nerdy filmmakers thing the
frequency at which the dot matrix
displays work on the platform and the
trains and different to the British ones
and it messes up with the default frame
rate of McKellen camera I don't have
this problem in Britain if I wanted to
make it look good I'd have to shoot
manual sorry on the plus side have you
noticed how we've had zero hassle zero
hassle off staff for taking photos and
filming in Britain all the time you get
like what you're doing
all right here take a picture I had a
guy approached me on the train wrath
wrath small station and I thought oh
he's gonna come and tell me sneakers you
should be filming trains I was like here
we're doing a project and I was about to
get a fly anyway if you get to the front
of the Train you'll see another one
passed by it's a great job so here the
staff don't tell you what they literally
encourage you and give you tips Irish
rail thanks
we're at hazel hatch and salvage which
looks fairly new new platforms Utica
office and we heard a rumor that there
was the TfL style roundel here so he put
a question out on Twitter and everyone
said yes it's here in the new ticket
office so you ready Jeff I'm ready it's
a national railway heritage award the
mandir underground accessibility award
presented to Aaron owed Aaron for hazel
hatch and Salvage station restoration by
Lord Adonis oh that's really interesting
why would London Underground award a
station in a completely different
country
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Oh quaint his Adams turn Vicki if you've
got a scale of cute yes you quaint yeah
quaint quaint quaint yeah I put it on
this sketch yeah on the functional
status go maximum function
we're arriving back into Dublin me
Austin but that is not the end of our
day
we're gonna meet someone someone special
so our mystery guest has brought us down
the side of Houston station we're gonna
have a chat my mystery gets name is
Michael coming good evening good it be
nice to meet you you might not recognize
him that you might by face but you might
default get me to say something could
you say something that people might
recognize you guys the next station is
Dublin central that does the
announcements the English one this intro
yes only Irish Road train exactly how do
you get that job it was just being in
the right place at the right time I was
in a radio studio I was back in 1996 the
train station that's a long time since
I've done some that one so that's why it
was a bit of a memory I made a joke that
you expose you in the studio for three
days you were like there was sea weed
through every station name every 1,600
words
second sense like what one two
we have to do the different intonations
and they then edit the computer stitches
the Montek said then goes the next step
okay Wow okay do you have a favorite
station name on the Irish well that's an
interesting matter yeah the next station
is Lansdowne Road please stand clear of
the closing doors now that's on the dot
that's in the dark gate closing doors
it's the dark I think is that one yeah I
know the other one of course is this a
welcome aboard announcement when you
come on the train so on the dot is there
in mind the gap as well because there is
that that's the most hurdle and that's
but that's dark specific isn't it which
is at which excites make is a bit like
the tube on the underground mind the gap
mind the gap that's all I usually have
to say in people go I've heard this guy
somewhere before mind the gap there is
one as well and things like the cork
station because there's a bit of a gap
there yeah here it's specifically but
for the most part that's it hundreds and
hundreds of times a day and no I'm not
on a performance fee that would be
really good back home in London in
England yes there's this security phrase
that I understand is is it genuinely but
it also drives us nuts right people will
never forgive me if I don't get you to
say okay see it's a it's sorted what it
actually is is if you see something
suspicious please call the police okay
let's do the short version you ready
yeah okay here it is see it
sorted Michael is a pleasure thank you
so much careful playing the guy my age
you can wave goodbye to my daughter you
will see tomorrow we're going to
Limerick by the neener line the very
strange two trains of dates the next
station is Burt Hill thank you for
watching all the stations
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the time of Kilkenny was built it's
clearly built at some
you