{"id":20529,"date":"2018-03-03T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20529"},"modified":"2018-03-03T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T16:05:13","slug":"tracking-the-light-extra-views-from-todays-1320-enterprise-to-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-extra-views-from-todays-1320-enterprise-to-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light Extra: Views from today’s 1320 Enterprise to Belfast."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d booked on the 1120 to Belfast, but the first Dublin-Belfast Enterprise to depart Dublin Connolly since Thursday was today’s 1320 (that’s 1:20 pm)<\/p>\n

Ground transport was still non-functional when I left Islandbridge, so I made my way through the slush to Connolly on foot, mostly following the rusted over LUAS tracks.<\/p>\n

There was a big crowd for the train at Connolly. We were slow on the DART route to Malahide, then nominally delayed at Drogheda when a disruptive passenger fought with Irish Rail staff.<\/p>\n

All and all it was an interesting trip! I’m posting from an NI Railways CAF on its way to Great Victoria Street.<\/p>\n

I made these views using Lumix LX7.<\/p>\n

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On my walk to Connolly I passed this scene on Abbey Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Connolly was frosty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I was happy to see the Enterprise ready on Platform 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was nice to be welcomed, but a little information would have been nice. Reminds me of a story my late friend Bob Buck used to tell about a woman passenger inquiring of the Boston & Albany Station agent at Framingham. ‘I asked you for information but all you give me is bullshit!’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Passengers were anxious to get on the train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Finally a friendly member of staff came along and opened the doors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hmm, snow on the platforms!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I’m checking the level of snow on the DART and lines from the North Wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NI Railways CAF Railcars at Portadown a few minutes ago. LX7 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’d booked on the 1120 to Belfast, but the first Dublin-Belfast Enterprise to depart Dublin Connolly since Thursday was today’s 1320 (that’s 1:20 pm) Ground transport was still non-functional when I left Islandbridge, so I made my way through the slush to Connolly on foot, mostly following the rusted over LUAS tracks. There was a … Continue reading Tracking the Light Extra: Views from today’s 1320 Enterprise to Belfast.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20524,"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":[3613,19,2377,20,21,156],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Irish_Rail_Enterprise_Connolly_Station_P1730328.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5l7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529"}],"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=20529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20533,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions\/20533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}