{"id":17940,"date":"2017-02-20T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17940"},"modified":"2017-02-18T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:45:45","slug":"irish-rail-limerick-colbert-station-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-limerick-colbert-station-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail Limerick Colbert Station Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was here at Colbert Station Limerick that I boarded my first Irish Rail train, a two piece push-pull led by a 121 Class General Motors diesel. That was just about 19 years ago (February 1998).<\/p>\n

The other day, I decided to travel by train to Limerick. Unfortunately on the way out I discovered that my \u2018connection\u2019 at Limerick Junction was a bus. Poor show Irish Rail. (Can I blame them for the rain too?)<\/p>\n

On the return, my train operated (hooray!). Waiting to board, I made a few photos of the old station, which uses of the traditional terminal head-house and iron train shed arrangement.<\/p>\n

Out front it has been cleaned up a bit, but for the most part the station looks much the way it did on my first visit all those years ago. No 121 though.<\/p>\n

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New paving stones, benches and decorative trees have improved the approach to Irish Rail’s Limerick Station. Note the big sign advertising trains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Colbert station uses a traditional arrangement with concourse and train shed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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All photos were exposed using my Lumix LX7 in February 2017.<\/p>\n

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The outward Limerick-Limerick Junction train consisted of a 3-piece Intercity Railcar. This was very well patronized.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Trains operate from Limerick to several destinations, including Dublin and Galway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Looking toward Colbert Station from a nearby road bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tracking the Light is Daily.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow: how I photographed a train by accident.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was here at Colbert Station Limerick that I boarded my first Irish Rail train, a two piece push-pull led by a 121 Class General Motors diesel. That was just about 19 years ago (February 1998). The other day, I decided to travel by train to Limerick. Unfortunately on the way out I discovered that … Continue reading Irish Rail Limerick Colbert Station Revisited<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17935,"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":[4075,20,21,2034],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Irish_Rail_Limerick_P1590149.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Fm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940"}],"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=17940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17941,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940\/revisions\/17941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}