Routes not yet travelled

[NIR]

I'm wondering what routes people have not yet travelled, mine are quite a few...

Coleraine - Portrush

Manulla - Ballina

Athenry - Limerick*

Ballybrophy - Limerick

Limerick - Waterford

Wexford - Rosslare Europort

Mallow - Tralee

Cork - Midleton*

Cork - Cobh

Docklands - Broombridge*

Clonsilla - M3 Parkway*

* opened since I lived over there

Ballybrophy - Limerick - Athenry - Waterford is looking particularly interesting...

Edited September 1, 2020 by NIR
add Rosslare Docklands M3

[jhb171achill]

In my case, only the half-mile from Navan to Tara Mines and the Sligo harbour line.....

Edited September 1, 2020 by jhb171achill

[DoctorPan]

So missing routes

 

- Glounthaune - Middleton

- Rosslare - Rosslare Europort

- Killarney - Tralee

- Docklands - Glasnevin Junction

- Belfast - Colarine

- Belfast - Larne

- Cultra - Bangor

 

[jhb171achill]

There are, I know, more than a few on here who did the Derry Road, the County Donegal, Sligo Leitrim, and the Leitrim & Clare narrow gauges.....!

Maybe a thread about best memories from closed lines!

For me, that would be the madman on the Athlone - Mullingar line on the late night mail train, or the graffiti on one of the seats in the Loughrea carriage two days before it closed.....in biro, “FAREWELL TO THE DUNSANDLE EXPRESS”!

And then there was the leaking carriage roof (a clapped-out laminate) in a violently torrential downpour somewhere north of Tuam.......about a quarter of the coach had  to move seats! Lucky there were only about twenty-five passengers on it, and two carriages and a tin van!

[NIR]

16 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Maybe a thread about best memories from closed lines!

Already been done!

 

[jhb171achill]

2 minutes ago, NIR said:

Already been done!

 

And by myself..... looks like I’m a stage further advanced in my dotage. Soon, I will be frolicking in the meadows with the Sweetie Mice and the unicorns.....

[Mick]

I think it's easier for me to list the 2 that I have been on:

Dublin - Galway

Dublin - Cork 

 

Really need to start upping them figures once this covid thing goes away.

 

 

[Noel]

Athenry - Limerick*

Ballybrophy - Limerick

Limerick - Waterford

Westland row - Wexford

[jhb171achill]

I wonder is there any ENTHUSIAST alive now who travelled on any of the lines closed in the 1930s, like Achill, Clifden or Muskerry?

A tiny handful of "ordinary" people, but I dunno about enthusiasts.........

[Mick]

23 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I wonder is there any ENTHUSIAST alive now who travelled on any of the lines closed in the 1930s, like Achill, Clifden or Muskerry?

A tiny handful of "ordinary" people, but I dunno about enthusiasts.........

Did you manage to get on any of the Donegal line? The girlfriend is from that neck of the woods and you see the odd remnant of a railway line, which I'd say would have been beautiful.  

[Galteemore]

My dad did that one a few times just before closure in 59 - managed to get all over the system. It was pretty spectacular all right. I think the trip I envy him most though was on a lifting train near Enniskillen. He made it to Bundoran by train too but biggest regret is probably not getting over the SLNC. 

Edited September 1, 2020 by Galteemore

[airfixfan]

The Burtonport Extension Railway! Epic

[jhb171achill]

4 hours ago, airfixfan said:

The Burtonport Extension Railway! Epic

Senior managed that - on the footplate of one of the 4.8.0s! I think I posted a pic some time ago.....

4 hours ago, Mick said:

Did you manage to get on any of the Donegal line? The girlfriend is from that neck of the woods and you see the odd remnant of a railway line, which I'd say would have been beautiful.  

Sadly, I didn't, Mick. Had I done so I would probably not have remembered as I was pre-school - though I do remember a visit to my great-grandmother's house at the same time (non railway related!) so I like to think that I MIGHT have remembered! I think that my earliest railway memory was the inside of an old wooden GNR carriage, hauled by steam.... and another - no idea where - of standing beside a steam engine, having been told to stay put, and the driver chatted to me while Senior had gone off to talk to someone......

Edited September 1, 2020 by jhb171achill

[DERAILED]

Still haven't done the WRC or Midleton since they reopened - surely proof that I'm an ex.enthusiast. In fact I've never done the WRC or even Limerick/Ennis by regular service train - plenty of times by specials. I did both Red Luas lines as soon as they opened and before they became a scumbag playground.

[minister_for_hardship]

Nothing north of the border save Dub-Belfast, Belfast-Cultra.

Haven't done Westport or Ballina branches. Everything else currently open covered, including mothballed South Wex.

 

[jhb171achill]

When you mention the mothballed South Wexford, I find it depressing to think of places that I HAVE been, which are now no longer possible and in some cases almost completely obliterated!

[NIR]

South Wexford is the one I should have travelled but now can not.

[jhb171achill]

4 hours ago, NIR said:

South Wexford is the one I should have travelled but now can not.

Tis a horrible lesson to learn; with better planning I could have done a few more. My biggest regret is never doing the Derry Road. I could SO easily have done that, the Burma Road and at least part of the North Kerry..... but I wasted too much time instead.....

[David Holman]

Like Mick, it is far easier to list the ones I have done, but if ever somebody invents I time machine then the Swilly, Tralee and Dingle, Valencia Harbour, Derry Road, the tramway section of the Cavan and Leitrim, plus the CVR would all be on my list.

[jhb171achill]

5 hours ago, David Holman said:

Like Mick, it is far easier to list the ones I have done, but if ever somebody invents I time machine then the Swilly, Tralee and Dingle, Valencia Harbour, Derry Road, the tramway section of the Cavan and Leitrim, plus the CVR would all be on my list.

And Achill and Clifden on mine!

[David Holman]

Indeed! Should have included both, but have at least had the pleasure of driving to them in decent weather. More that I can say about the Ring of Kerry - three attempts, but rain and low cloud each time.

[Galteemore]

No one’s mentioned the Sligo Leitrim !

[jhb171achill]

On 9/7/2020 at 8:19 AM, Galteemore said:

No one’s mentioned the Sligo Leitrim !

I was informed that........ (“Too much information” ALERT!) ......

.....I travelled on it - but when I was a “bump”; a few weeks before I was born I travelled from Enniskillen to Sligo and back in Railcar “B” one way, and one of the clattery railbuses the other way.

Damn. No steam.

And I only got an oul “C” the day I went to Loughrea......

(No pleasing some people.....)

Edited September 9, 2020 by jhb171achill