Thursday the 4th of April we're at Aon
we're heading down to Talore where we're
going to reverse uh head up to balar Via
Westport and Manila Junction with a
special stop at Castle R let's do
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St quick Map update today's trip is very
easy we go down from aone to Talore
reverse then come back up through aone
we go all the way through to Westport
then come back and then we do the
Intriguing manula Junction with a little
train that takes us up to B
hour I'm Facebook living and filming
hello Jeff with the big camera H meta as
Jeff would say so we're coming into the
station now I wonder where you were say
hi to Facebook I didn't know where you
were the changing weather of Ireland it
was
hailing 2 minutes ago now The Sun Shines
out
I can't tell what it is it's not a
castle there's a sign that says it's
like a business park it might be like
local Council offices I think it's just
an old historic building but Vicki not a
castle which is why I'm doing this bit
and and not
her train here woohoo
we got on the train at telmore and we
met the lovely Autumn hi Autumn
greetings greetings how do you feel
about the railways Autumn trains are the
best I Like Trains we will shortly be
arriving they do need to be improved
though great aome thanks I think you're
getting off there yeah thank you see
you in a break with addition which means
I have to discuss castles later Vicki is
now going to tell you about some of her
favorite features yeah of this train
cannot wait on right castles you
literally canot we're currently
traveling on an icr train and consistent
features that we have spotted whilst
traveling on these types of trains over
the last week or so are reservations
which we're going to try out tomorrow so
when you book your ticket you can
reserve a seat and your name will appear
um at the top here so we're going to try
that tomorrow toilets on every train
often trolley service uh where they
provide a little menu on your table as
well um but perhaps best of all always
always a socket so you can charge your
phone
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com what
coming cast ra rocking up who we seeing
here Vicky who we see in here Vicki who
we see here Vick a lovely man called sha
a lovely man called sha has uh what I
believe is the largest Personal
Collection of Railway memor here in the
country that's quite a claim sh will be
on your screens shortly
hello how you doing I'd shake your hand
but but one hand's got the camera in and
the other hand's got Vick who have we
met hello so this is Sean whose
wonderful collection we're going to see
this is Michael he's the ST Master and
Michael you're work here okay you
telling them how amazing Irish rways are
yes they are
incredible r a car you're own a car two
strange men I'm sure my mom told me not
to do this Mom I'm sorry she definitely
told me not to do my mom you're told you
not to get into strange men's cars get
in your car
but thank
you so we made it to for in under Hell's
Kitchen in the castle Ray ra raway
Museum and we just have to shuffle
Shuffle Shuff Shuffle because behind us
there's an actual There's an actual
train Carriage inside the bar and you're
going to talk to Sean and find out find
out why why why so why Sean do you have
a train carriage in what was once a bar
the locomotive I bought it from cie but
when I was a young lad going to Dublin I
seen all the steam engins up for
scrapping so I said if I was old enough
at the time if I had actually approached
them would have got one no but I was
very lucky that CEO at the time was jaid
Waters and he was from moo so I actually
when I applied for then this year I
could have it it only cost
1600 from to buy the scrap fell but the
whole job at that time 20 years ago cost
140,000 so behind this wall there's more
there's more to see a full Museum on the
fire side there's already just so much
to see sure when I was a young lad back
in the 50s I used to go up and down with
this hor and cart and that's where my
interest started so we still got to go
into the Muse I know there's more to say
Vicki it's not just the front of the
train it's the whole
Carriage
what it's the whole
Carriage that's good
right Sean you got the whole Carriage
yeah yeah the whole the whole this R
engine was here actually got you a hat
okay great it's a
cie hat which was the company
before uh Aaron Road Aon Sean what does
cie stand for crushing everyone
this is the castle re am I saying it
right Castle re Castle re raway Museum
it's full of loads of brilliant R
artifacts to either ring or email Sean
uh here's 302 set to music of all the
things you can see in this amazing
Museum
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really
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going here
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later feel like there so much here we
can't quite do it justice in one video
ly you set this up how how where why
should people come and visit the amazing
Shan why
because it's amazing oh yeah that's why
it's just um so many incredible
artifacts um about Islands Railways from
everything from the tiny little tickets
up to an actual locomotive like and
everything in between he's got
everything yeah with you like track
signals trains time taes uniform signage
anything he's collected everything the
wonderful Sean come to Castle re and uh
come visit yes Sean you're a brilliant
thank you very much God bless you God
bless you too thank you so much have a
great you have an amazing place you have
an amazing Place take care bye bye bye
bye byebye and that's how to do Castle
Ray oh Sean if you're watching this you
you're brilliant your collection's
amazing everyone should come and uh see
it and our train is a few minutes late
which meant that we actually made it we
made it
yay going to jump out valy hunis Ticky
tick tick
tick valy hunis valy
hunis like
that CLA Morris on the other side
there's actually an item platform looks
like there are three platforms here CLA
Morris this is CLA
Morris we're at Mana Junction but we'll
make a fuss of this properly after you
madam on the way back and I found out
from our guard that the reason why CLA
Morris had that third platform is that
the shuttle to Balon up
this is the shuttle used to run from CLA
Morris and not the near the junction so
everyone is changing as you can see bye
ladies thank you so much these were
great they were great they're changing
for the Bonar train which we will catch
on the way back down once we've been to
Westport so we'll do make a fuss with
this when when uh when we come
back it's going to take off Castle Bar
the county town of County Mayo has links
to Lord Luc and there's a Lucan Street
here in Castle bar and a nice station
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too we made it to Westport we're told
that the station isn't anywhere really
near the town which is a shame cuz my my
friend Fred turned up and you are saying
that the town is lovely but what you can
see from the station is the Tesco all
you can see from the station is the
supermarket this is actually one of the
most beautiful towns in Ireland right
and voted uh on occasion as the best
place to live in the whole of Ireland
but what you're going to see from the
station as I remember is Tesco and the
bus station if you're lucky and by the
way it's County Mayo it's raining that's
necessary and the line used to go
further to where Fred don't get it wrong
well it we going past a place called
muris which is at the foot of crow
Patrick and then onto lburg I'm guessing
but that's definitely a job for Mr
Google but in the 1960s they did a
beaching in Ireland and they closed a
lot of railway lines they wish they
hadn't closed now so they would probably
wish just as we do in England and in the
United Kingdom that these lines were
still open but right now Westport is the
end of the line so Lord alter Mount and
the alter Mount family used to own
Westport house I don't think they do
anymore and what about this red writing
here is that some ancient gaic
inscription is that yeah absolutely yes
that's that's one of the oldest signs in
the west of Ireland absolutely um that
will be
Tes and uh do you know what you see that
quite a lot that is a historic Irish
sign along with Aldi and leel Mana
Junction Manila Junction is going live
on the Periscope I'm doing filming let
me say goodbye to our friend Fred thank
you so much goodbye Jeff bye see you
again I'm off to feed the dogs that's FR
everyone that's everyone this is manula
Junction this is the little train this
is a weird station it's like dovey
Junction in Wales you can't get to this
by Road there's no Public Access it's
purely here for you to
change from the main line to the branch
line to take you out
uh to valenar so I think we got like 4
minutes until this
leaves and I think that was it that was
it that was fast
man the driver was just waiting for us
to get on and then he was gone this is
what it looks like when I'm filming by
the way do it again Jeff uh it's this
did you see the old
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sign nice
buffers that's the end of day I've lost
count balonar uh this is a lovely
station lots of lovely Heritage it's
quite quaint and the line used to go
further freight line still does uh early
start tomorrow indeed going to get a bus
over to
slgo head back to Dublin thanks for
watching thank you see you again all the
stations bye Credit
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stations stations
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here comes the
train we've never done an intro before
where the trains rolled in live in the
background have we I'm not sure Thursday
the 4th of April we're at aone we're
heading down to Talore where we're going
to reverse