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minister_for_hardship
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Theres a tight chicane underneath the motorway. 5T is massively oversized and expensive for the needs of the Suir Valley. I'm sure if there was ever a suggestion that 5T were to leave Tralee there'd be a host of objections from people who cared about it all of a sudden.
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I'm afraid that's the way it is. Simply put there's neither interest nor motivation to do anything.
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Reading between the lines, not going to happen.
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No I dont believe it is.
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The inevitable greenway to be opened on what was the DNGR is to be called the Great Eastern Greenway as an obvious rip off of the so-called Great Western Greenway, thus both obliterating reference to the DNGR and sowing confusion. "The Great Eastern Railway used run here, yeah?"
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Still better than Inda. -
There was some nice LSR footage but yes, I found myself reaching for my phone during the boring bits or when a random with a trad instrument rocked up. It should be called Endas Greenways or whatever that translates to as theres precious little railway content.
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Yes. Many times.
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By some miracle, all the archive footage for the West Clare episode was indeed West Clare. Not metre gauge Indian Pacifics.
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Glorified security guards. I don't think they had powers of arrest like proper transport police.
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Did Cultra paint anything in the right colours?!
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If we did new builds and turntables here, ideally you would need a decent go most places 4-6-0 or Woolworth, that can be trusted not to hold up services for the normals on the modern network and haul plenty bums on seats. A new build MGWR loco or one of those crimson WLWR yokes slathered in copper and brass would be a fine sight, but without any kind of a decent distance go-somewhere-to-somewhere-else private preserved line, theres not much call for things like that.
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Shinty. It's all a bit the same. Lads chasing a ball around a field.
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Even a simple "who built this railway?" and not even get this half right. How do you even do this? Alright I'm off to watch that Liverpool United play sportsball with Celtic Rangers.
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Why bother asking experts, poor Jhb and others to contribute material, wasting their time, just make up stuff?
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That old chestnut just HAD to be wheeled out. I couldn't see them not using it.
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How on earth did RTE manage documentaries in the past without dropping such clangers? I don't remember Ironing the Land or Off the Beaten Track being like this.
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And a background of 'Great Western Railway' posters. The still photos look correct, which is something i guess.
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Achill branch now "narrow gauge".
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Media reaction was generally positive with Kenny doing a reasonable, if uninspiring job of it. Comparisons with a series fronted by another ex politician are inevitable. I don't think it was intended to be anything more than staycation chewing gum, scenery and some sound bites.
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It is as easy to do a thing right as wrong. I don't see the point of asking folks like Jhb, who know their beans, to contribute and then just ignore their input and do your own mish mash interpretation. A friend of mine (non enthusiast) watched it and said it looked lovely but said didn't learn all that much about the railway.
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A Kreigslok heading to Achill, maybe a Pannier tank on the Swilly?
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You weren't seeing things.
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GNRI 83 and Lough Swilly clips as well in a Waterford focused episode, but shoving in a brace of A4s is the ultimate case of any old choo choo will do. I don't think there was a single mention why it was built or that it was a boat train route. It just struck me as very rushed, drone shots and short interviews shoehorned into a half hour slot, basically an ad for greenways.
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Little known fact: Streaks were bought from BR, regauged and used on the Rosslare boat trains.
