After a week in London, Kris and I returned to Dublin. Upon arrival at Dublin Airport we took the 782 bus directly to Heuston Station and bought tickets for the first available through train to Cork.
Although, Irish Rail wasn’t having the best day, and our train was a Hyundai-Rotem built Intercity Railcar (Known as an ICR) instead of one of the locomotive hauled CAF-built Mark 4 train sets, we had a good train ride.
As soon as the train was anounced we proceeded directly to the boarding platform and secured places for our luggage and ourselves on-board the train. Irish rail’s InterCity trains are very well patronized, and our train, which had just five cars, was essentially full departing Dublin.
The train departed within 30 seconds of the advertised and ran express to Portloaise under sunny skies. We arrived in Cork ahead of schedule!
I made all of these photos using my Lumix LX7. The images were recorded as RAW (RW2) files and then adjusted in post processing using Lightroom.
There’s been some big changes at Dublin Heuston since my day’s living near here. A four story control center was built on the site of the Guinness sidings and locomotive 218 has been converted to run on bio-fuel and painted to advertise this feature.
There’s been some big changes at Dublin Heuston since my day’s living near here. A four story control center was built on the site of the Guinness sidings and locomotive 218 has been converted to run on bio-fuel and painted to advertise this feature.
There’s been some big changes at Dublin Heuston since my day’s living near here. A four story control center was built on the site of the Guinness sidings and locomotive 218 has been converted to run on bio-fuel and painted to advertise this feature.
For reasons known only to Irish Rail, our train made a scheduled stop at the remote station at Ballybrophy, which is probably the least used station on the Dublin-Cork route. For the record, a passenger got off the train here.
For reasons known only to Irish Rail, our train made a scheduled stop at the remote station at Ballybrophy, which is probably the least used station on the Dublin-Cork route. For the record, a passenger got off the train here.
For reasons known only to Irish Rail, our train made a scheduled stop at the remote station at Ballybrophy, which is probably the least used station on the Dublin-Cork route. For the record, a passenger got off the train here.
After the station stop at Mallow—where passengers can change for the route to Killarney and Tralee, our train was about half empty.
After the station stop at Mallow—where passengers can change for the route to Killarney and Tralee, our train was about half empty.
After the station stop at Mallow—where passengers can change for the route to Killarney and Tralee, our train was about half empty.
