The acronym DART has a nice ring to it. In California when the planners were studying a new transit system, the name Foothills Area Rapid Transit was proposed. Someone took the gas out of the plan though, and now it’s just called Foothills Transit.
I fully agree with you, the railway track from Galway city to Clifton in Connemara should be opened just for its scenery alone it would draw thousands and thousands and thousands of people on day trips, my dear departed father was one of the last people to catch the last train from Clifton to Galway as it close down. The railway line from Tuam to Claremorris and further into Mayo and Slig0 should also be reopened, as a young boy of 12 years of age I worked illegally/undercover as a gatekeeper for the CIE, at Brooklawn level crossing, the last train traveling through my gates on Friday evening would arrive shortly after 6pm, the train driver would throw the pay packet to me from his cab as he went by and I will try to catch it in the air before it fell into the bushes, all for £2.50 for a full week's work, of course this is going back to the mid 1960s so the little money has some good value for family of 11 children
@@jamesbradshaw3389 Athlone to Mullingar or Loughrea would shorten Galway to Dublin Western Rail Corridor Sligo to Donegal for Freight in Killybegs is needed too.
No, it isn't still the same. For a considerable time now there have been additional electrified routes between Howth Junction and Malahide and between Bray and Greystones.
I am told that The Dart Train shows an excellent view of the sea and you travel along on those steel rails, When I am making plans I always make sure that the scenery is the best, I always include lakes, rivers and sea views, they are the most calming to look out onto after a hard days night or after a difficult day at work so when you get off the train you are in a happy and content frame of mind and with a smile on your face.
You can take a train from Dublin right down to rosslare and it's absolutely spectacular scenery, that train also runs the entire length of the dart line from Dublin city. Well worth the journey, if you do sit on the left side of the train as you face the drivers cab
@@AwesomeAngryBiker Thank you for this information and yes I will make that journey then next time I come to Ireland and I will sit left side of the train as I face the drivers cab and I will recall that your excellent advise
For the view and to watch people fishing, boating, painting, or strolling along the seafront with not a care in the world, What a most brilliant way to travel
@@MichihiroHonda But the view is brilliant, it is like looking at a great work of art that changes every day, some things are worth running at a loss if they pay in other ways.
DART Train along The Dublin Coast from Bray to Howth, Ireland 1984. 10.9.24. Round about the time of rum sodomy and the lash..songs for aquatic navvies....
The acronym DART has a nice ring to it. In California when the planners were studying a new transit system, the name Foothills Area Rapid Transit was proposed. Someone took the gas out of the plan though, and now it’s just called Foothills Transit.
Hard to believe that now that the line is just through one big city and virtually impossible to telly where wicklow ends and dub starts
That's what happens with urban sprawl.
Reopening of closed railway lines should have happened years ago cut down on Pollution, Car Accidents, Road Deaths & Traffic Jams is needed.
I fully agree with you, the railway track from Galway city to Clifton in Connemara should be opened just for its scenery alone it would draw thousands and thousands and thousands of people on day trips, my dear departed father was one of the last people to catch the last train from Clifton to Galway as it close down. The railway line from Tuam to Claremorris and further into Mayo and Slig0 should also be reopened, as a young boy of 12 years of age I worked illegally/undercover as a gatekeeper for the CIE, at Brooklawn level crossing, the last train traveling through my gates on Friday evening would arrive shortly after 6pm, the train driver would throw the pay packet to me from his cab as he went by and I will try to catch it in the air before it fell into the bushes, all for £2.50 for a full week's work, of course this is going back to the mid 1960s so the little money has some good value for family of 11 children
@@jamesbradshaw3389 Athlone to Mullingar or Loughrea would shorten Galway to Dublin Western Rail Corridor Sligo to Donegal for Freight in Killybegs is needed too.
Sad to think they haven’t created any other electrified railways since and it’s still the same
No, it isn't still the same. For a considerable time now there have been additional electrified routes between Howth Junction and Malahide and between Bray and Greystones.
I am told that The Dart Train shows an excellent view of the sea and you travel along on those steel rails, When I am making plans I always make sure that the scenery is the best, I always include lakes, rivers and sea views, they are the most calming to look out onto after a hard days night or after a difficult day at work so when you get off the train you are in a happy and content frame of mind and with a smile on your face.
You can take a train from Dublin right down to rosslare and it's absolutely spectacular scenery, that train also runs the entire length of the dart line from Dublin city. Well worth the journey, if you do sit on the left side of the train as you face the drivers cab
@@AwesomeAngryBiker Thank you for this information and yes I will make that journey then next time I come to Ireland and I will sit left side of the train as I face the drivers cab and I will recall that your excellent advise
When Ireland was a nice place
Ireland being famously a nice peaceful place in the 80s and 90s of course
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Why build it on the coast? Half the catchment area is in the Irish Sea? 🤔🤤
For the view and to watch people fishing, boating, painting, or strolling along the seafront with not a care in the world, What a most brilliant way to travel
@@jamesbradshaw3389 but the line will always operate at a loss........
@@MichihiroHondathat definitely is not operating on a loss. The funds are so good that new DART trains are being introduced and the line is extending
@@MichihiroHonda But the view is brilliant, it is like looking at a great work of art that changes every day, some things are worth running at a loss if they pay in other ways.
@@AwesomeAngryBiker thanks to endless government funding and grants.
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before FG made a mess of public transport and put profits over service
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DART Train along The Dublin Coast from Bray to Howth, Ireland 1984. 10.9.24. Round about the time of rum sodomy and the lash..songs for aquatic navvies....
We know which one you're into
@@ShredCo DART Train along The Dublin Coast from Bray to Howth, Ireland 1984 2149pm 11.9.24 do tell....
Before the invasion
When did your people arrive and invade, My people did this also a very long time ago, we are also invaders