Irish train jokes

[Broithe]

[heirflick]

come on broithe, there has to be a good story to this one!

[Broithe]

come on broithe, there has to be a good story to this one!

I've no idea - I've seen it a few times....

 

Just seems very odd.

[minister_for_hardship]

Not a joke as such, more a funny story.

 

Back in the day at Limerick Junction there used be staff dorms, this one was an awful rat-infested kip with a reputation for being haunted.

 

Apparantly, one night a staff member supposed to be booked in there for the night, ran up to that station and swore he wouldn't stay the night at any cost.

 

Said he'd looked in the window and saw the Devil, Old Nick himself....poking the fires of Hell with his pr*ck.

 

Apparantly, there was a driver already in residence, who happened to have a goatee beard and a penchant for sleeping in the nip, had gotten out of bed to poke the fire.

[Broithe]

Living in England, I'm used to the rather pompous announcements that you get here - e.g., "The train now approaching Platform Three is the delayed fourteen fifty three Virgin Cross Country service to Manchester Piccadilly, calling at ...etc"

 

Rather a different style at Portlaoise, where I once heard "That's the Cork train coming in now."

[minister_for_hardship]

English vistor stepping off a train in turn of the century Ireland, takes a deep lung-full of country air:

"Isn't this invigorating?"

 

Porter:

"No, it's in Tipperary"

[heirflick]

could only happen here