Trip Report: Intercity Train in Ireland
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Twenty years ago I traveled between Dublin and Galway on a train, sitting beside another American for part of the journey. She said she was going to visit her grandparents; something she did every year. She also said “the train will let me off at the farm.” Sure enough, out in the middle of Irish countryside, our train stopped, she got off with her luggage, and her granddad was waiting at a pasture gate. Last seen walking across a cow pasture.
No way. That is so cool.
Sounds like a flag or whistle stop on-demand. This is pretty common for rural, low-traffic routes across western and northern Canada where there is actually still passenger rail service, and probably many other locations too. VIA still has flag stops on its transcontinental services in northern BC or Ontario. If you need to wait for a proper 'station' in town to get on or off, it could be 100km away. Between Jasper AB and Kamloops BC is roughly 440km - the same distance (according to Google) as London to AMSTERDAM, or DUSSELDORF.
They don’t do that anymore
@@done-ahhh578 Yeah I can imagine, especially now with tighter schedules and what not. In Denmark where I'm from, many such little stops on branch line routes were turned into little request stops. Often extremely barebones and serving just a few or even just 1-2 people, but they're still there. Especially in the most rural parts of the country.
Didn't happen.
Dublin Heuston was named in honor of Seán Heuston, an executed republican leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, who had worked in the station's offices. During the Easter Rising, with about 20 Volunteers, he held the Mendicity Institution on the River Liffey for over two days, though it was originally only intended to be held for three to four hours. Sixteen of the Rising's leaders were executed starting in May 1916. Cork Kent was originally called Glanmire Road before it was renamed after Thomas Kent in 1966 on the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. Thomas was a member of the Irish Volunteers, and while he stayed home during the uprising (he was supposed to take part, but the mobilization order was countermanded), the Royal Irish Constabulary was sent to arrest well-known sympathizers throughout the country, so when they came to his family's house, there was a gunfight with him and his brothers against the officers that lasted for four hours with a RIC officer dying, and Thomas was tried by court martial and sentenced to death. Thomas was the only person outside of Dublin to be shot for his role in the events.
While the city of Limerick is in County Limerick, Limerick Junction station on the other hand is 34 km away from Limerick in County Tipperary! Thurles is also in County Tipperary! Yes, the one from the famous song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", first performed in 1912 by Jack Judge whose grandparents were from Tipperary and first recorded in 1914 by Irish tenor John McCormack, that got popular among soldiers in the First World War like the Irish regiment the Connaught Rangers singing it as they marched through Boulogne-sur-Mer in August 1914
I wonder why Limerick Junction station isn’t just called Tipperary
I’ve been to ireland once, used only the DART to go to bray, and hike from there in the Wicklow mountains. Great train service!
Well done on pronouncing the place names - especially Portlaoise!
Thanks, definitely had to do some googling
I was impressed also. My parents were born there, and I often butcher words in Irish.
@@Thisoldhiker I look up videos of realtors and local news stations!
Interesting Ireland facts: The Irish flag was presented as a gift in 1848 to nationalist leader Thomas Francis Meagher (leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848; he later escaped to the US and fought for the Union during the American Civil War as the leader of the Irish Brigade) from a small group of French women sympathetic to Irish nationalism. It was intended to symbolize the inclusion and hoped-for union between Roman Catholics (symbolized by the green) and Protestants (symbolized by the orange). It was not until the Easter Rising of 1916, when it was raised above Dublin's General Post Office by Gearóid O'Sullivan, that the tricolor came to be regarded as the national flag. The flag was adopted by the Irish Republic during the Irish War of Independence and was later given constitutional status under the 1937 Constitution of Ireland.
Cork was originally founded in the 6th century as a monastic settlement. Cork was expanded by Viking invaders around 915. Its charter was granted by Prince John in 1185. A settlement in the area of what's now Dublin was established by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century. The name Dublin derives from the Irish word Duibhlinn, stemming from early Classical Irish Dubhlind/Duibhlind, from dubh meaning "black, dark", and linn or "pool", referring to a dark tidal pool. This tidal pool was located where the River Poddle entered the Liffey, on the site of the castle gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle.
Who knew three simple colors had such a fascinating history!
I wish I had a chance to visit Ireland when I spent a semester in Bologna, Italy. I’m part Irish, a history nerd, and a train nerd, so would love it. I was able to ride the tube in London, the Berlin and Munich systems, Italian high speed rail, and the Rome subway, but unfortunately didn’t make it to Ireland
Not to be too pedantic, but Cobh and Midleton are east of Cork city and Kent Station. Hope they all had a good time here.
Always nice to see Bear and his friends. It seems that you and Bear have had great travel experiences.
Something that is definitely on my bucket list to visit.
I saw a photo of some of their rolling stock from a north jersey as he went to Ireland for a wedding. He originally went by Officer O'Leary because his name is Sean O'Leary and used to play GTA, but now goes theme park content under Rollback Productions (his videos for a long time had the name at the end with footage of Kingda Ka rolling back, so it was inevitable in hindsight with the change)
It looked like the one at 5:38 and not what Bear rode tho
So here's one heck of a run I want to try sometime. Begin at Amsterdam or Rotterdam Centraal. Eurostar to London St. Pancras International. Switch to tube, Circle line (or equivalent) to Euston. Avanti West Coast to Holyhead. Catch the Dublin ferry. Walk up the long quay to the Point and catch the Red tram to Heuston Station. Westport Service to Athlone. Wind your way through the Irish streets and across the River Shannon, and find yourself at Sean's Bar, the oldest pub in Ireland and perhaps the world.
That sounds like an awesome trip. Call me and I’ll join you.
The KTM Class 91 EMU in Malaysia has an almost identical design to these 22000 Class DMUs
Hi TRA, first, I'd like to say thank you for the content y'all have made. It makes me happy hearing y'all's comments & it is a great channel you have! Will you please do a video on the Coaster Commuter train?
I really hope to come to San Diego soon! I’d love to film the trains there
Thanks to Bear for awesome footage of his travels! You and your family have had many awesome train adventures!!!
Nice to see your brother Bear do great videos like you. How did he become a train fan like you?
This cool to see outside of the USA 😂
That Irish train is a real Corker! Great narration!
As I live in Ireland, I have used alot of the trains lines in Ireland.
Makes sense
Great Journey and Commentary you Filmed!😃.
Thank you!
I haven’t ridden the trains in Ireland but I did ride SJ Rail’s service from Stockholm to Malmö. (Well actually I didn’t ride it all the way to Malmö, I transferred to a different train at Lund as I was going to Copenhagen). It was crazy because I’d never been on a train for as long as that before, only Amtrak from NYC to Philly.
Thank you very much for this review. I cannot tell from the video when this journey was made, for today most services on the Cork to Dublin run are operated by loco hauled push-pull stock which is really excellent. The 22000 Class DMUs in the video are also good, but when more than one unit is in service, it is impossible to walk through the whole train. Perhaps when you make your journey - highly recommended (!), chose a loco hauled service, and highlight the interesting station at Limerick Junction, where all Dublin bound trains stop. At that station there is an interesting grade crossing with the line from Limerick to Waterford, and that is a run you should also consider !
This was filmed in early March 2024!
I've travelled from Dublin to Cork on Saturdays for rugby matches. On every occasion the trains were of this type. I wonder do they only use the better loco hauled trains on weekdays.
I enjoyed that video👍👍
Strange that Ireland adopted that unusual gauge although I believe that the Dublin LUAS tram is standard gauge.There was also an unusual gauge in Donegal which was shared with the Isle of Man a large island between Ireland and England.
Yes, LUAS is standard gauge!
It was adopted pre-independence. It was in fact chosen by the British Board of Trade, which settled on standard gauge for the "mainland".
Thanks for sharing. I didn’t know that Ireland ran broad gauge trains.
Having relatives in the Cork area, I've done this run several times, it's convenient and fast and Iarnród Éireann does a good job. The last time I took it, a couple of years ago, it was locomotive hauled Mark 4 train set, which traveled at over 100 MPH/160 km/h. I don't think I've ever seen the 22000s do that run. My only complaint overall was that the windows on the trains in each direction were dirty, which marred the view of the stunningly beautiful Irish countryside (I may have been a little cranky though on the Cork-bound leg, having just landed after flying overnight from Boston).
Would definitely love more Ireland content!
I rode the Luas tram in Dublin and found it to be not so nice and many of the people’s actions reminded me of the CTA trains. Didn’t get a chance to ride Dart or the other services.
That’s unfortunate
I've only been to Scotland and used a train there, which I know has nothing to due with Ireland, but that's the closest I've been!
Your buddy didn't need to book in that far in advance. It would've been the same price if you booked the day before. Last minute booking is when you buy the ticket at the station, which costs more to discourage longer use of ticket machines, especially now with QR tickes on your phone. It's all just to keep lines at stations to a minimum :)
You should go and visit Scotland! Scotrail is great, you should give it a shot.
5:06 oh no, it's Hermione, the kid who was complaining about that ice cream truck!
Good video
Thanks!
If you get a Leap card, and you use it to tap on and tap off of the trains in Dublin, get the Leap app on your phone as well, and use it to verify when you're tapped on or tapped off. Otherwise you will wind up with a €70 fine. And the tap points are really bad at telling you whether you're tapped on or off so they can't be trusted.
Hey are you going down to Chicago for the 40th anniversary of metra
No
Trains in UK/Ireland are creeping up in price although not as bad in Ireland
UK train prices are bonkers
@@Thom-TRAIn England, definitely (especially in London!). Not so much in Scotland unless you're using the Caledonian Sleeper. I was looking the other day for a relatively last minute London - Birmingham or the other way around trip for one of a very specific list of trains that are booked as voyagers or the new Hitachi fleet and they wanted £22 one way with my Railcard that was committing to a specific departure. Needless to say, I called the trip off before I'd booked any of it . That was for a journey of around 113 miles .
INterCity trains is Ireland are far far more affordable than the UK. Not sure were you got that idea. I travelled from Sligo to Kerry with the tram transfer recently for 50 euros for 400 miles by rail. Visting my cousins in Preston last week cost me the same from Lime Street in Liverpool which is only 30 mins away. UK train prices are insane.
So cool! I love MBTA and trains do you?
I do too! I was in Boston earlier this week!
Hey Thom, why is almost the entire network not electrified?
I wish I knew!
@@Thom-TRA The government just doesn't want to. In the 2000s Ireland received billions from the EU to build out the motorway system, but didn't consider investing some of those funds into the rail network, and so it remains underutilized and in many sections across the west, south and north completely abandoned. Cork is next metropolitan area set to receive electrification, sometime in the 2030s. As for the rest of the country progress is still unbelievably slow, there is a huge lack of ambition to modernize the rest of the country and provide a railway network similar to our European counterparts.
@cillian3076 While there was no electrification during the boom years, the infrastructure was much improved.
@@cillian3076 My great grandfather was bitter about the 1960s closure of the West Cork Railway from Cork to Bantry to the day he died. Its closure cut off his hometown, Drimoleague, from the world. A trip from there to Cork by train took 1.5 hours, and after the railway's closure, several hours by bus...
It's too bad the U. S. didn't adopt 5' 3" as it's standard gauge. The maximum loading gauge we would have had would have been significantly better, easily 11' wide or more, and well over 20' high, making for very comfortable passenger accommodations of higher capacity (like 5 or 6 across seating without pinching the aisles like most U. S. commuter trains do, or having wider sleeping car aisles). India also has a significant amount of broad gauge track. I believe theirs is 5' 6", and it's reflected in the width of their passenger stock.
Though to be fair, the amount of space you get on American trains is already very generous compared to most countries
Stopping kids from saying first🗿
BEAR!!!!! :-) ❤
Trust a well-travelled person to do justice to Celtic place names, well done - Team TRA wins again! Did Bear witness or capture any GM haulage this time round? \m/
Thanks to RUclips tourism videos for helping me with the pronunciation 😂
I am kind of amazed that you pronounced "Hyundai(현대)" just like Koreans do.
On the other hand, I feel quite unsatisfied by how low the electrification percentage is.💀
Ya win some, ya lose some lol
Enterprise from Dublin to Belfast (and back) was good. Would NOT recommend First Class. No complaints but didn't seem to be worth the extra.
Sadly that seems to be the case for a lot of first class products
Correction domestic railway services are run by Ianrod Eireann and Translink Northern Ireland Railways. Ireland is ONE land mass with no hard border. And IE and NIR both share operations on the Enterprise Dublin to Belfast services.
IE also used to run some commuter services up to Belfast too not sure if these have been replaced by Enterprise paths though. I only worked in Newry back in 2014.
I preferred the old BR MKIII's converted to Irish gauge that used to run to Cork and the Irish MK 4's that ran (and possibly still do) on The Cork/Limerick to Dublin InterCity. I was regular traveller on Newry to Dublin and Belfast services.
In the Republic of Ireland. I don't believe the area served by NIR is in a republic, is it? If it is, do you mind telling the royal family that you were right, they are wrong, and that they need to get out?
Since when did you become so cute? (This is meant as a compliment, not an insult)
Since you opened your eyes apparently
@@Thom-TRA it would appear so