There’s A Train In The Bar - Episode 12, 4th April - Athlone to Ballina
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- Опубликовано: 7 апр 2019
- Out of Athlone down to Tullamore, the back again up to Westport before turning around again and heading to Manulla Junction for Ballina. In between all that to-ing and fro-ing there's time to visit the largest personal collection of train memorabilia in the country.
All The Stations - Ireland sees Vicki & Geoff exploring the length and breadth of the Iarnród Éireann and Northern Ireland Railways networks - to all 198 stations. Along the way, they'll meet the communities connected to the lines, interview local people and those who work on the railways, to find out about their experiences of travelling by train.
Download the All The Stations theme tune from iTunes here: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/all... (other stores are available...)
To The Book! "The Railway Adventures" is published by September Publishing and was released in October 2018. It accompanies the 2017 'All The Stations' adventure, when we travelled to all 2,563 railway stations in Great Britain. Available here: www.amzn.com/1910463876
You can see a progress map and station count on the website: www.allthestations.co.uk/
Am I the only person who gets nervous the doors will close every time Geoff jumps off to film each station.
Me too
Hope he pays attention.
If he stays close enough, that infernal beeping should give him enough time to leap back on. Probably landing in a heap on the floor with the door bouncing open off of a foot. Having never tried it, I presume the doors are like tube trains, if they meet resistance they open.
Causes delays if the doors reopen. But yes they should reopen, after getting a bit squashed. Depends how sensitive the sensors are.
But I prefer him actually TOUCHING the station instead of merely looking at it through the door, more authentic.
Geoff kept calling the A55 diesel locomotive a carriage. It didn't look like Sean liked that as he kept calling it a carriage. Brilliant Museum and a wonderful gent.
I don’t know how it didn’t click it was a locomotive….2 cabs….not many windows…..and Sean constantly reminding them!
Vicki should get a pacer in her back garden now
Yes
She doesn't have a garden!!
@@carolinegreenwell9086 in her house
A front end about a foot deep would be very do-able ! Are they heading for the scrapyard anytime soon ? Do hope some will be preserved, remember they outlasted their design life a number of times !
In a previous video wasn't it mentioned that there is an abandoned Pacer front end buried in a tunnel under Manchester Victoria station..........?
Props for Fred's pronunciation of "Lidl".
You should have stopped at Westport, one of the best places in Ireland. The railway that went beyond the town headed out to Achill and is now the Great Western Greenway.
Castlerea Railway Museum ... what an absolute gem
Looks amazing, must do some research to see if a day trip from Cork is possible, taking account of the bus times to get to and from Cork, otherwise there must be a B&B in Castlerea.
@@tonys1636 Tullys Hotel is open in Castlerea!.
@@trainsinireland5063 Might give it a go over this Bank Holiday after some research into relevant time tables.
Is Hells Kitchen no longer a pub??
Used to be great to drop in for a beer...... and if lucky, get given the keys to walk through the A to view the collection...
Call Castlerea my home for 26+ years and I've never seen it once. I'm shocked..
Sean's The Star ,hope visitor numbers go through
the roof.
Chris Sassen I differently want to go and see the railway museum.
According to the Irish Rail map I printed, you have now been to every station Irish Rail serves directly from Dublin Heuston station. Congratulations!
its prounounced CASTLE-RAY Vicki, but you're forgiven. exceptional
The further you go on this gentle tour, the more fascinating it becomes. Great to meet the incredible Sean and his must-visit museum!
Love All the stations:Ireland Next geoff and vicki should do All the buses in great Britain and Ireland
There's more than meets the eye at Claremorris Station (9:15 to 9:30). Claremorris is an important junction on the Dublin - Westport/Ballina line where there is a presently disused railway connection south to Galway via Tuam and Athenry. This is the subject of an ongoing campaign by West on Track to reopen the line as part of the Western Rail Corridor infrastructure. In former times Claremorris had a rail freight depot and was the main train staging point for pilgrimage passengers to connect to road services to Knock Shrine. A service on a reduced scale is still in place today. The reopening of the line is currently the subject of a government-funded review. There may be a few more to add to the 198 stations in the near future.
I was waiting for the first "I like trains" of All the Stations! :D :D
Sean/Shaun’s museum is amazing! I could easily get lost there for a day, if not two, taking it all in.
Vicki & Geoff, when are you coming back to my native Ireland? I’ve enjoyed this entire series so much that I’m rewatching it here in Manchester U.K., as the Irish government is planning increased investment in the Irish railways - we are hoping that they will extend the M3 Parkway line to Navan, so all they need now is to extend the LUAS Trams to the Irish Ferries & Stena Terminals at Dublin Port via Dublin Docklands Rail Station, which will make coming home to Ireland on SailRail via Holyhead so much easier 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Geoff - A55 is (or was) a diesel 'A class' locomotive and not a carriage
Your "carriage" in the museum is a locomotive btw.
I had to rewind to confirm there was a Deutsche Bahn sign at 7:23. Sean has an extensive collection, but then he does have an entire carriage inside his bar.
It's actually a locomotive, it's just had tables and chairs put in where the engine room is
10:46 looks like they could have done with the automatic wheelchair ramp.
Vicki looks fierce at the controls.
1,600 to buy the locomotive? And 40,000 to have it installed? Shawn is my kind of crazy.
That’s a lot of train memorabilia, impressive. Reminds me of the NY Transit Museum in Brooklyn, the NYC equivalent of the London Transport Museum. It has a big collection of very old subway cars and it feels like you’ve gone back in time. They still have the vintage ads in the interior of the trains. Nice cap, Vicki. And that is a cool bar
Avery Lopez-Baines haha
Only difference is, the NYC museum is in an old disused station... though the TFL museum has more space for things like old 2 level busses and trams that used to run in London. NYC museum has an old bus fleet, but you can only see them on special occasions.
That's an old jail in Tullamore. The court house was just down a the street a bit. Very impressive.
2:09 I LIKE TRAINS
Vroooooomm 😂
You missed a castle in Tullamore called Charleville Castle which is about two miles from Tullamore Railway Station. At least you got to my hometown of Tullamore.
Sragh Castle is visible from the train.
The museum is incredible. Thanks for sharing with us
I travelled from Ballina to Dublin in 1987. The carriages are a lot nicer now. The thing I remember most back then was that most of the level crossings were manual, with a crossing attendant to open and close the gate.
I seem to remember the level crossing at Foxford was manual at least until the early 2000nds
Wow!! What an amazing museum!!
What a great little museum!!!!
Wow another great episode guys!! Keep up the good work! And can’t believe Sean had a actual train carriage in his collection that’s insane!
what a great museum!
Good video again and nice to see clara mention on a video doesn't happen very often. Also loved the museum somewhere I hope to visit one day.
Great video as always!
Loved the railway museum! With a full train car too!
Great episode. That museum looks fantastic.
Well done!✔ Castlerea Railway Museum 👍 ...looking forward to Episode 13...Vicki & Geoff's name in lights...on a train! 😊...take care!
Sean got it a bit wrong, C.I.E. stands for Coming In Eventually.
Before the upgrading of the rolling stock and signalling it was 'Crawling In Eire'
@@viking1678 Nice to see Sean had some table wear with the famous CIE "Flying snail" logo!
CIE stands for
Coras
Imporair
Eireann
My Dad is from Castlerea , I spent all my summers there , I've passed that museum many times , so glad to see you stop there!
I must say i am really enjoying all your videos each night about the railways here in Ireland, hope you are both having a good time here and it is great publicity for Ireland and it's railway system.
Beautiful scenery to rival any previous video, then Mr. Sean Browne and his museum. Spectacular!
That train carriage is so cool.
Excellent Video and Commentary Geoff and Vicki!😃.Castlerea is my Home Town.I know Sean Browne and Castlerea Railway Museum Very Well!.
This is the best part of this country, The Wesht asthey say over this way. Lovely.
And my husband's Grandfather was from Roscommon. Yes, we could have moved to Ireland if we had wanted to. Mind you, that was his mother's parents. The Harrigan side was Heinz 57 American. They came over a long time ago.
I saw Vicky’s twin on the train, just before they got off at Castlerea.
I thought the same thing.
Watching this particular video made me so happy. My family's from Castlerea and we would normally visit every year but haven't since before the pandemic. We should hopefully be back there in a little over a week and I'm definitely planning to go to the railway museum. So cool to see Geoff and Vicky there : )
Wow, that museum is quite something, actually, its amazing. And a great use for an ex-CIE loco too.
The Ballina line is Ireland’s most profitable freight line owing to the timber industry.
And the Dublin Port-Ballina Container Trains
Sean is a Nice guy
that was a very enjoyable episode
At Westport the old line continuing from the station used to lead to the quays, it's now a greenway. There's also another old line which heads north from the station up to Newport which is also now a greenway.
That Museum was just Nuts !
Roscommon! Some of my ancestors emigrated to England from Roscommon in the 1850s :)
Apart from the awesome duo that is (was😔) vicki and Geoff I absolutely love the music to these series. Hats off to the composer who has written a great piece. I especially love the little minor acccent at 7.33..(details details)..
You should of stopped in Westport. Very beautiful town. It would of broken the Quaintometer tho.
Great vid guys
Manula Junction is also like Smallbrook Junction on the Isle of Wight. However, since you haven’t been there, it’s understandable that you didn’t mention it.
“Rail enthusiast disease” 😝 great one Geoff and Vicky
There is a class 37 cab in the car park of the Alexandra pub near Derby station. It seems there are fanatics everywhere!!
Fred is brilliant! He would make an excellent sidekick for your future adventures.
Not really - his commentary on where the railway continued to was BS.
Wow..the museum.
A very brief visit to "my station" in Ireland, I as an idealist guard from Sweden was allowed during my visit long ago to assist with the evening shunting.Westport is the place.At that time there was an 071 class loco and a group of waggons in the trains.
There is actually a castle in Tullamore, but it's about 2km from the station, on the opposite part of town; it's called Charleville (Forest) Castle!
I suddenly don't feel as worried about coming across as a bit awkward tomorrow 😅
We have a historic Irish ALDI sign in Dallas too!
Lots of lovely things. Perhaps you will visit Westport on another trip.
You should've made a detour to The Gardners Arms in Sompting (nearest stations East Worthing or Lancing) the other year. That pub has had a Pullmans style train carriage in it the the last 15-20 years.
Sign for Balla at the Castlerea Museum. Great great grandfather was station master there. Have to take a trip up!!
Very entertaining video! It would be good if the line from Claremorris to Athenry could reopen. I wonder with Manulla Junction if it could appear as the least used station in Ireland is very few passengers buy a ticket to Manulla Junction? Good is see some freight traffic at Ballina!
In 2024, Geoff has now corrected himself and the reports out there, you can in fact access Dovey Junction in Wales from the road
Was up with Sean many years ago will have to visit when Covid is over. Drove A55 (055) many times.
Also CIE is still the parent company of Irish Rail. CIE was the sole provider of all public transport until 1988 when it was divided into Irish Rail, Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus but the holding company is still the parent company of all 3
A pity Seans' museum can't go on tour ... 'Nerdish Heaven' ... NRM Eirann
seen...tick
The peaked cap suits Vicki! :)
I love Sean
And Fred he's brilliant too
Geoff’s pronunciation of “Ballina” is spot-on.
What you were looking at in Tullamore is the facade of the former jail. Most of it was knocked years ago and there is now a business park in behind it. There are still decorative axes on the railings outside, possibly because they used to execute people in there.
The railway didn't go further from Westport to Murrisk. It used to go in to Achill Sound, through Newport and Muranny. Pretty much the complete opposite side of the bay to what yerman was blathering about.
It's an old gaol, but there are two castles in Tullamore, one visible from the track.
And hi Autumn! I know him, slightly.
It is a cab of a loco with a carriage coupled up to it!
BTW - Interesting fact: Both Dovey Junction in Wales and Manulla Junction in Ireland are similar to Smallbrook Junction on the Island Line + Isle of Wight Steam Railway on the Isle of Wight.
Kind regards, Peter Skuce. St Albans. Hertfordshire.
There is and always has been a street entrance at Dovey Junction, the idea that there is not is a silly urban myth www.google.com/maps/@52.554806,-3.9258577,3a,47.8y,25.13h,76.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sa8xWxz8eE3MOuuu0moLh-g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
You'll need to go back and do Westport some point, esp Matt Molloy's pub on Bridge Street. The Mall will indeed break the Quaint-ometer though!
Ballyhaunis is pronounced Bally Haw nis
That Denny ad!!
Lovely railway museum at Castlerea with so much to see
I’m glad Sean has the complete loco and not just a short section of it.
Btw I’m no relation to Claremorris.
I think I have Rail Enthusiast Disease 😂
I'm waiting for All the Bahnhoefe series...
The cie teapot and milk jug in Michael's museum. I must have them
"Nice Buffers" lmao
Closing dialogue should have went well like this:
GEOFF: Nice buffers.
VICKI: That's the end.
GEOFF: Of ?
VICKI: The line ... and this episode.
I have visited that Tesco
All the castles please!
7:05 🤣🤪 Oh shite I definitely am a carrier! ⭐️💚
My hat off to Sean Browne, I could be lost for days in his museum ! I'll try to Google the loco and see if I was on the right track with the Bulleid connection.
As a sidenote, are more viewers peeking at the timebar of the video when the credits start to roll ? Gives you a rough idea how many bloopers etc. the editor has in store for us ;-)
Loco has nothing to do with Bullied.... designed by Metropolitan Vickers of Gorton, Manchester and equipped with their own electrics and two stroke diesel power unit..... re-engined by CIE Inchicore in the early 70s using 12 cylinder 2 stroke GM 567 power unit....
Expected to see Will Hay any minute..
In my town we have a restaurant which is an old railway carriage at our steam railway
CIÉ (Córas Iompair Éireann -- "the Irish transport system") still exists.
It's the state-owned holding company for 1. Bus Átha Cliath (Dublin Bus), 2. Bus Éireann, and 3. Iarnród Éireann.
My grandfather worked for the railway division of CIÉ from 1945 (and for 20 years before that, for Great Southern Railways; earlier still, for the Great Southern & Western Railway).
Ynysmitwr is it same cie I see on tour coaches
@@s125ish Yes.
Have you tried measuring the distance between the rails yet?
I was hoping you would show this A class in your videos
I think you both have "Railway Enthusiast Disease" (7.05). Oh well...!
Nice buffers! Lol!!
Shame not more time at Roscommon. Interesting famine museum there.
You should do all the steam lines of the UK geaff & Viky