{"id":16582,"date":"2016-08-30T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16582"},"modified":"2016-08-30T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:41:02","slug":"tracking-the-light-special-irelands-grand-hibernian-inaugural-departure-from-dublin-heuston-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-special-irelands-grand-hibernian-inaugural-departure-from-dublin-heuston-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light Special: Ireland\u2019s Grand Hibernian Inaugural Departure from Dublin Heuston Station."},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon, after years of planning and months of preparation, high-end hotel train operator Belmond debuted its latest train; the Grand Hibernian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This departed platform 2 at Heuston Station at 2:20pm (30 August 2016).<\/p>\n

I made these photographs of the train and its Irish Rail crew.<\/p>\n

For the railway enthusiast this means the return of locomotive hauled Mark3 carriages to regular traffic.<\/p>\n

All images were exposed a little while ago \u00a0using my FujiFilm XT1 digital camera.<\/p>\n

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Train guards Noel and Mark at Heuston Station, Dublin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Each carriage is named for an Irish County. Sadly Mayo and Dublin were omitted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Oy! Whosat goob?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Departing Heuston Station on the advertised.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Green flag to depart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This afternoon, after years of planning and months of preparation, high-end hotel train operator Belmond debuted its latest train; the Grand Hibernian. This departed platform 2 at Heuston Station at 2:20pm (30 August 2016). I made these photographs of the train and its Irish Rail crew. For the railway enthusiast this means the return of … Continue reading Tracking the Light Special: Ireland\u2019s Grand Hibernian Inaugural Departure from Dublin Heuston Station.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3781,3779,7535,21,3405,3780],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSCF3630.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4js","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16583,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16582\/revisions\/16583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}