morning in an interesting Twist of
events it's not morning it's
afternoon and the board there at Cony
doesn't list any trains on platform 7 so
we're looking for our train and I can't
see it and a quick check in with Mission
Control thanks Dave tells me that our
plane our train our train plane is
leaving what where are we going from 7
why isn't 7 listed on the board Dave new
platform I think it might have just
saved the day rooll
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St all
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St but before we take you on our journey
today where did we go this morning we
were invited to the Irish Railway record
Society it was a bit like the London
transport Museum but of Irish Railways
it was amazing uh so a little flashback
to this morning and the time we spent
with them we have been welcomed to the
Irish Railway record society which is
just next to Dublin Houston Station this
is an incredible building and I'm here
with Norman Who is the archist societ he
was formed just after the war 1946
gradually um we acquired a lot of
material from the railway companies and
from people who probably wanted to find
a good home for it and eventually in
1983 84 we were given uh the use of this
former Goods office so what kind of
things do you have here Irish Rail have
to keep or rather cie the holding
company have to keep such records as
board
minutes but a lot of the secondary stuff
could very easily have disappeared we
probably over the years there was very
little appreciation of the historical
value of a lot of this material and
we've been able to um save a lot of us
so you really have a whole diverse range
of of um records here are we able cuz I
can see behind you as of a long never
ending Corridor it seems coming and have
a look this is the area of the archive
for General records maps and ledgers
this area has even more maps ledgers and
files in here records of the Dublin
United
traway and this room is full of station
drawings there is also a general library
with hundreds of books and the public
can access this at certain times of the
year that means the library is closing
soon um at the back of the library this
area contains thousands of periodicals
about Irish Railways and Railways abroad
up the top is what I think was Jeff's
favorite room which is the time table
room thousands of timetables beautifully
blound for Irish Railways the last room
we've come to is the lore Library lots
of heavy leather band books but the best
thing are the name plates on the
wall thank you so much to the Irish
Railway record Society this is the team
that we met this morning and now we have
a cup of tea we really have to go and
catch our train there's one train that
we have to get we got to go we got to go
we got this is it this is us going bye
bye
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bye as we depart drum condra we're also
we're on this service
today take us down to ha hatch first
where we were yesterday to change but
we're about to go through the Phoenix
Park tunnel uh which is like the Cur
track which they only think they
reopened last year last November but it
means that trains coming up into Houston
could then of go under Phoenix Park and
come on and be re routed around uh into
Connelly and beond so there's a service
I think that goes from Grand Canal do
down to the services that would normally
come out of Connelly and they either go
to Hazel hatch or Newbridge and that's
what we're on
T 3 car it's
busy 23
car
Onan
tick that's it
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and it's sunny again at Fort
Arlington excellent
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i b just getting some tea
AR is to the rescue we we shouldn't call
it B broy we should call it Barry Brophy
what happened is that we've got a
90minut wait here 1990 minute and the
trolley came down and we think there's
nothing here at B broy sorry Barry
Brophy at all just the trolley came down
the Train's pulling in I was like how
quick can you serve two te's and the
lovely gentleman did it just in time
welcome to
broy we've been talking to Jim in the
ticket office who says there's pretty
much nothing at valy broy it's just a
connecting station but we beg to diff a
Jim we found that if you come outside
Valley broy and look over here in the
field there are some
sheep Mr and Mrs
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sheep what we making such a big fuss
about this well because it's uh it's
awkward line of the day it's just as
awkward uh as limmerick Junction to
Waterford there's two trains a day
there's like the morning 10:00 1 and
there's an evening 7:00 one on that
graphic of of awkward line of the day
just now David has drawn us the nice
water tower that is here as you can see
at Barry
broy all right this is very exciting so
Jim oh Jim's appeared in the background
say say hi Jim hello there hello so
Jim's rather exciting told us that not
only does the Dublin train come down a
court train comes up and they all
connect with the WF train this must be
the busiest your are all day Jim yeah
what else happens at valy broy during
the day no hello there we go what's up
hang on hang I'm excited cuz it's a it's
a new type of train we've been having
the class 22 and 23,000 obviously
there's the the court commuter trains
there's the dart there the dart trains
and then obviously the Loco on the cork
but this is it P
it's something it's not a p but it's
something new I don't know what it is
look nice it says 2819 I don't know what
that
is oh my two carriages that's a little
tiny two Carriage train and you know
what you know what that means don't
you oh we've had this m before have we
yeah oh when did we have it before on
the
dart no this isn't the dart M no no no
no it's the one that down to Cove the
one the Cove oh okay it's still nice
it's a brand new train it's a new top
I'm excited it's a new type of typee of
train and then as people cross the foot
Bridge the train up here we go the train
up from well it must be at least mow
maybe TR is coming in heading for
Dublin so the question is is how many
people will get
on this
train we got five plus us at seven s is
that a
record that
aside from ourselves there five people
on this train just five which makes
seven in total okay and I bet they we're
going to Nina Nina should we take a poll
yeah let's let's do a
poll so what did you just learn from M
car conductor that we're currently going
at 30 mph the train used to go along
this line 60 70 mph and it used to be
the main line to limmerick so um our
conductor said used to work it uh in
the' 70s and it was busy really really
busy line but today it's just seven of
us coming into clock Jordan
controversially three out of the five
passengers look like they're getting off
which will mean there's just two regular
FL
ourselves Jordan four people got off and
then there were three and then there
were three sorry I miscounted three
people got off then there were two plus
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ourselves right Nina station this is it
yeah the Metropolis that is that's the
coner the thriving Hub thanks so much
have a good
night we've got time to take a picture
by the where's the sign want me to take
a picture
go on then really quickly really quickly
toay the
TR very much good night good
night look at that
150 you hear that beeping noise on the
door yeah that's the closest you're
going to get to a Nino noise our our
friend Neil
who donated for this station said could
we run along the platform going n like a
police siren no sorry Neil
you're a lovely
man so Nina a gentleman got on board the
train and that gentleman is Mike hello
Mike uh thanks for chatting to us you
were you were saying to us off camera
that you took this trip today because
you've never written it before despite
the fact that you've lived in limmer for
many years and you were sort of worried
that they might close it soon so I've
lived in Li for over 20 years and I've
always wanted to ride this line and when
I moved to Limer first there was talk
about well this line isn't doing so well
and maybe they're going to close it and
it would be a real shame because it's
you know goes to really nice Villages
and towns and picturesque scenery and
old bridges and you know I think inside
every little every inside every person
there's a little boy or girl who is
interested in Railways and so I've
always wanted to ride this line but I've
never had the chance until today in sort
of organizing your trip out today how
difficult was it because there's not
many services along the line well I I
picked the particular departure time so
that I would it would give me about 2
hours in Nina which is about the right
amount of time that I needed today um
the early morning one wouldn't have
suited me it would have been too early
and the the waiting time would have been
too long and and so on so this one
suited me just fine and uh so I would
have liked to have done it maybe early
in the morning when all the businesses
were open Nina but you know it's okay I
suppose the the downside is that the
commute time between limmerick and Nina
by car is probably 20 minutes whereas by
train it's you know an hour or so um but
it does it does bring you right into the
heart of Nina and it does leave in
convenient place in Limer so it it is
good service in that point of view so I
hope it it prospers and becomes a more
busy line um and I hope it doesn't get
you know doesn't get closed anytime soon
would be a real shame M thanks so much
love very wel talk to you oh it's
raining oh no is it rain it's raining at
bird Hill but we're at bird Hill we're
at bird Hill it's so raining it's so
raining bird Hill
tick all good good one more and then the
line is done woohoo what's the other one
right castle conel castle
Connel Castle conel is there a castle
castle Connel Castle Connel TI there a
little old is it like old little
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signal if it weren't for us Mike you'd
be the you'd be the sole passenger I
would
you'd have the whole train to yourself
stretch
out we made it to Limerick let's get
Mike in our video so Mike's going to
help Mike could you say that's the end
of all the stations episode 10 and we'll
see you tomorrow on all the stations
that's the end of all the stations
episode 10 we'll see you tomorrow for
all the stations bye
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if it weren't for us Mike you'd be the
you'd be the sole
passenger you'd have the whole train to
yourself stretch out you you could
totally just
do
things than
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