Seapoint - Least Used DART Station
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025
- The DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) network comprises of 31 stations in Ireland from Malahide and Howth to the north of Dublin down through to Bray and Greystones to the south.
Of all the stations served, Seapoint is the least used with the lowest number of passengers of using it across the network, so whilst in Ireland for the weekend I caught up with Dan to go and see what is at Seapoint!
Here's Dans own video from 2018 which is how we knew to get in touch with him ... • Dublin's Least Used DA...
We need secrets of the DART actually
I read this about 2 seconds after he joked about it in the video. It's almost like you were posting in real time to my viewing. lol
We also need a secrets of Thameslink
Yessss, excellent idea tbh
Secrets of the northern Irish railways would be cool too, I could definitely provide some interesting facts
With Bobby George cohosting
So so so happy to see Ireland feature Geoff. We have so many little quirky stations around the country I'm sure you would love. Its amazing to see you here in my home city.
He visited many of them last year in "All the Stations"
Seapoint is actually one of the few manned stations left - Manned in the morning on weekdays by a lovely guy called Paul.
I'm from Dublin and I've been watching this guy for a few months now. This was unexpected. More Irish videos would be nice 😁
A very unfortunate place to sit at the station. Particularly for Dan ;-)
what did it say, its blurred out now
How could I have missed this four years ago!!! Seapoint, a station I have visited many times over the past 50 years, as my Aunt live 5 minutes walk from here. Always a joy to ride this line, even on wet and windy day.
I didn't believe the title of this video when I saw it! Glad to see you in my neck of the woods! If I had known you were over I would have bought you a pint! 😊
... And now that I've finished the video I can't believe you went to Monkstown. That's literally where I live! Amazing.
The gate was an entrance to platform 2 for elderly and disabled people, but since the lifts were installed, everyone uses the main entrance. That gate has not been used for years. Information from Irish rail.
Dan did very well, very knowledgeable and personable. Great to see more of Ireland. 👍
Dan is a natural. Good knowledge and humor with it.
It's the fact that it's blowing its load over Dan's head that cracks me up the most! 😂
2:25 the building with the round window openings on the right (Up side) are stables, built by the Dublin & Kingstown Railway as part compensation to the landowner for land taken for the railway.
You gotta love how friendly the Irish are, great people.
Also yes, top job on framing the "train shelter art", couldn't have done it better if you wanted to XD
He's not Irish he's British.
@@JRAR24 he meant his Irish friend
Nice one, Geoff, great Irish! We need to see more of you in Ireland after your all stations adventure!
Sweet. I really miss the seaside. Thanks for connecting and sharing the Dart Train.
I lived in Bray for 10 years many many years ago. Like Dan I went to school near there (Newpark! Brilliant that it’s still there! 😀) and spent many an afternoon waiting for my train back home. Lovely to see it looking as I remember it!
I never knew there was a Bray in Ireland. I only know the one in England where Hammer made all the great Dracula and Frankenstein films. Was chuffed to see the recent BBC Dracula series was partly filmed there.
For me as a Scottish Gaelic speaker it's interesting to see/hear those Irish words. Some are very similar to Gaelic, some totally different. At least I largely know how to pronounce Irish when I see it written down. :)
@Seaghán Ó Laodhcha Yes, I noticed that too, lol.
"Rinn na Mara" is a beautiful name in any language.
It's always so lovely to see my occasional commute. Cue me looking around seapoint for ages on google maps
Come back to watch this video in november 2021, and seen Geoff in january 2020 before everthing happen is mind blowing
Good job Geoff on the Irish pronunciations! You did pretty good, maith thú! (well done)
It's cool to see you back in Ireland!
Avery the Cuban-American *Ok boomer.*
That was fun! You're a great narrator, Dan. :) Love the green trains.
Was that a green Queen Vic post box at Seapoint station as well? That's cool! You blew past that one!
Yeah a lot of the original Victorian and Edwardian post boxes are still in place, just painted green.
Dan was great! Very cool and knowledgeable 😁
Welcome to Club LUS Dan! It's good to have another Dan in the club! Great video too! Good factoids!
I didn't realise you did other public transport systems too! awesome, nice to see you look at the dart
Very interesting video. Would love to hear more about the DART network.
Train manufacturers: Ok DART what shade of green do you want for the new trains?
DART: Yes
Yes, but it also somehow needs to be aggressive, yet depressing.
They’re gonna build the very first underground metro for Dublin in a few years time. When it’s built, could you do a video for it, Geoff? 😊🚇
2027 though
Is the company that built Crossrail bidding for the contract . . . ?
caw25sha if that’s true maybe 2027 is a bit optimistic 😂
caw25sha I don’t know. What’s it called?
Banana Man 101 that’s only 7 years away. lol
I used to get the DART home after work during a fairly short-lived employment in the IADT "Media Cube". When hanging around on the northbound platform, it was interesting to peer through those circular windows into a derelict house, or maybe it was the original station building. There was a glass bottle sitting inside somewhere that looked at least 50 years old.
Also, bonus points for Nigel the Sound DART Driver.
Dart definitely wins for ugliest coloursceme I love it. Nostalgia...a year ago I was in Dublin. Love that city.
Liam Tahaney Its a good colour scheme for an Irish train everything green
Somehow they found shades of green that clash with other shades of green.
was thinking the same thing at how ugly those trains looked
Liam Tahaney they’re being rebranded in the next few years. To Orange and Navy
its so ugly its good
Geoff, there's a DART in the US also! It is called Dallas Area Rapid Transit! Bright yellow and also use Japanese stock.
Also Des Moines.
that's weird
A good friend of mine lives around the corner from there. I've been to Seapoint station many times. It feels odd to see you there.
Fair play to Geoff for trying to speak Irish 😁would love to see more videos of you here in Ireland
I've forgotten so much Irish it's depressing.
@@qwertyTRiG Well, if you are not willing to speak it to someone and rather just speak English, you will eventually forget how to speak it. It is only natural. The only way to keep a language living is when it is actually used on a regular basis. If folk are unwilling to speak the language of their land and their forefathers and just rather speak the language of the former colonisers, then they shouldn't be surprised that their Irish is bad or gets worse over time when they never want to use it regularly.
@@iammcwaffles5514 My own parents are English (well, it's co complicated, but I have no known Irish ancestry, anyway), but I was born and brought up here. I do want to learn Irish, but my first focus is this country's other native language, ISL.
It's nice to see Trains outside of the UK
Thanks for making me home sick Geoff but genuine thanks for covering the Dart. Hope you had a decent drinking session over there buddy.
Great video and Dan was terrific. I'm more than interested as my paternal grandmother was born in Bray, Co. Wicklow.
once again a very good video plenty of info to consider a journey to the stations - always wanted to visit Irish rail system - any platform 0 in Eire
At 5:29 look on top of Jeff’s head, I’m literally dying 🤣🤣😂😂
Are you able to say what was there before it got blurred haha
I think most of your videos are very informative & worthwhile. Well done.
But, I admit, I envy the incredibly massive amount of time, energy & Disposable Income you must have to produce them.
Back in the day....he's been alive only a few more years than I've worked at my current job
Actually, I'm longer working at the Dutch Railways as he's at age...
Back ik the days... And he is introducing weekends. Dan is a funny lad.
Geoff your in Ireland! Make sure you go see "Brunels folly" it's a piece of rail line designed and built by Brunel on the dart just before gravestones in Wicklow the last stop on the dart I think....brunel tried to build a piece of rail around Bray head (a big lump of rock) right on th coast and it ended up collapsing and killing a lot of people so they build a new piece of rail just up from it and you can see the old line Brunel built that ultimately collapsed
Amazing to see other metros!
Kacper Skornicki I’m from Dublin and technically the DART isn’t a metro it’s just commuter rail. We don’t have a metro yet... but we will!
@@stephenmurphy2212 Well, we might, it's fallen through in the past many times
Michael Tuohy they tested drilling boreholes only last month.
Happy New year. Great video as always your the best.
Geoff, I am sooo happy you have finally filmed in another country. What are the train classes in Ireland?
Hes been to Ireland quite a lot when he did all the stations there
@@LukeAlfordUKsteam he has? Which ones?
@@TPhype-Discovery all of them. Go on all the stations channel
Class 209,22000,29000 and mark 4
22000 (InterCity
29000 (Commuter)
8100 (DART)
8500 (DART)
8510 (DART)
8520 (DART)
Mk IV (Cork InterCity)
I too was born in Holles Street Hospital, as were the Nolan Sisters. Actually, due to a clerical error, I nearly WAS one of the Nolan Sisters.
I really enjoyed your day out with Dan 👍
Dang it when I saw the title I that it was gonna be the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) train
When they are both sat in the shelter I certainly sea the point 😂
For a second, I thought you came to Dallas. Guess there's more than one DART, and Dublin is a lot closer to the UK than Texas.
Love the sound of those Dart Trains!
businessbuilding1 Enjoy them while you can!
Will be sad to see them go
Platform 1 looks incredibly narrow.
When the air is breathable again, please come to Sydney! Now that Camellia is closed along with the rest of the Carlingford line, the least used Sydney station is probably Cowan or Clarendon. Going a bit farther afield to the Central Coast, Wondabyne is a single-carriage length station which doesn't have road access - only on foot or by river: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondabyne_railway_station
Taken the DART from Tara St to Greystones, the lovely beach at the end makes it my favourite stop :D
Yesssss please do more in Ireland
Lol My subdivision here in Ohio USA is all Irish town names ... I live on Wicklow... lol another great video thanks Mate!
Ha! I live in the Irish Wicklow. The garden of Ireland!
Can’t believe it’s already 9 months since all the stations Ireland
I got a add for Heathrow Express. I live 3000 miles away across an ocean and am afraid of flying. Good job algorithm...
Any man who can speak Irish has my respect
Great video as always mate
The ticket office is still manned every weekday morning during the peak rush. Theres the award for best customer service from last years station awards in the ticket office window.
Nice Video and Commentary Geoff!😃.
I would love to see a Secrets of DART
Well Setpoint isn't the only least used station to have a lift, if you remember London Waterloo?
Great stuff! Come back to Ireland, i'd love to see more of this
Good man yourself, Dan .. See if you can get Geoff to go west to Tralee. Hope you have good sailing this year.
Geoff, you now need to do every least used station in the Irish counties! As you can’t just do one! 👍😀
Donegal doesn't even have a train station
Osin Smith, it does the fintown railway has a station and about 3 miles of narrow gauge track, it’s the only station in county Donegal.
this city is one of my bucket list cities to visit. always wanted to go. Even since the cranberries released the first album. which is a good 27 years ago. or when i was 19.
That’s strange as The Cranberries are from Limerick not Dublin. So that’s like wanting to visit London because you like the Beatles.
Did you get a picture of that gorgeous post box?
10:44 Interesting to see an old Royal Mail postbox (painted green) with "VR" (Victoria Regina) in the Republic. The IRA blew many of those up in the bad old days.
There's plenty still around too.
Aww missed out on the morning swim in seapoint as the locals would do.
Weirdly, my only other geographic reference for Dublin also involves DART, since it's the old Dara Ó Briain riff where he compares the Shankill and Bray stops to Mordor.
17: 18 Was that choreographed? They crossed their opposite legs almost in synchronicity. Does that also mean Geof is left handed if he crossed his left leg?
Oh Geoff did you not spot the graffiti as you were discussing the Stats with Dan?
Fantastic as always
The phantom strikes again 😂 had to pick that seat Geoff
The exact walk we did on our DART trip last year!
That was cool well done Geoff and Dan is so cute lol
5:55 Dan, you stone cold savage...
I love him!
I've been busy recently, so I need to go on holiday for some rest and rela ... Forget it, lets do a Least Used Station in Ireland
Sutton is statistically the least used DART station. Seapoint is very busy. Irishrail staff here.
Dan looks like another good local train bon vivant for a few more Irish episodes!
Now do each New York subway line
You'll have to revisit Ellan Vannin and do least used stations there!
Geoff has more companions than Doctor Who!
Happy New Year Geoff!
Every time Geoff talks about his companions I think of Doctor Who.
And you forgot to mention there was post box as well. Hope you had a great time in Dublin great city.
Wow. A Queen Victoria one.
The most shocking thing is that the lift in Seapoint is actually working. Wow. I'm shook
Most used will be Connolly, Pearse, Landsdowne road (my station) right?
Geoff did you notice the Royal mail post box just outside seapoint station it was just painted green??
For a second, I thought you'd come to Dallas to do some videos. Forgot Dublin also uses DART as the acronym for their transit system!
Just been on that line on holiday in Dublin got off at sea point
What on earth were you doing at Seapoint?
Please try out the new Class 745 Intercity GreaterAnglia now officially operating between London Liverpool Street and Norwich.
Are you doing Least Used Stations In Ireland? I hope so
He might struggle with the least used station in County Donegal
@@simontay4851 there are no train stations in donegal. The border destroyed a large part of the train network in both northern Ireland and the border counties in ulster
Please do more videos in Ireland!!
You were in Dublin!! I would’ve stalked you had I known! 😂 I’m a bit embarrassed about the DART to be honest, the rolling stock is about thirty years out of date.
superdeluxesmell I love the old trains
Jay Jay 😂I’m glad someone does! Another few years and we’ll be looking at the Railway Preservation Society coming in to protect the line’s heritage. 😂
Most of the trains (about 70% of the fleet) date from the early 1980s, and are thus the same age as the Class 455s, 317s, and Sprinters on British railways, but younger than the trains used on Merseyrail, the Tyne & Wear Metro, or the Bakerloo and Picadilly Lines. .
The newer Darts are only from 2004?
"Hey Nige,dust off that suit you are Hollywood bound,you appeared on one.of Geoffs videos"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seapoint is literally my fav place
What is that colour scheme for the train?