{"id":21972,"date":"2018-08-28T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21972"},"modified":"2018-08-24T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:28:40","slug":"belmonds-grand-hibernian-on-the-middle-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/belmonds-grand-hibernian-on-the-middle-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmond\u2019s Grand Hibernian on the Middle Road."},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday\u2019s an Irish Rail class 071 works Belmond\u2019s luxury cruise train, the 10-car Grand Hibernian<\/em>, on its run from Dublin Connolly to Waterford.<\/p>\n

Although slightly back lit, I found the famed \u2018Gullet\u2019 offers a good place to catch this train at work.<\/p>\n

This cutting dates from the 1840s and features three tracks.<\/p>\n

In this instance, Irish Rail 082 was accelerating down the middle road with the posh-looking train. (\u2018Down\u2019 refers to traveling away from Dublin, and doesn\u2019t reflect the gradient, which in this situation is actually rising).<\/p>\n

Working with both my FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm telephoto and Lumix LX7, I made two sets of digital photos.<\/p>\n

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Irish 082 with Belmond’s Grand Hibernian cruise train. FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX7 view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The locomotive sound was impressive as on this particular Sunday a couple weeks back the roads in the area were shut for a foot race and there was very little ambient noise compared with a typical day in Dublin. Perhaps, I should have made a recording!<\/p>\n

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On Sunday\u2019s an Irish Rail class 071 works Belmond\u2019s luxury cruise train, the 10-car Grand Hibernian, on its run from Dublin Connolly to Waterford. Although slightly back lit, I found the famed \u2018Gullet\u2019 offers a good place to catch this train at work. This cutting dates from the 1840s and features three tracks. In this … Continue reading Belmond\u2019s Grand Hibernian on the Middle Road.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21973,"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":[10,48],"tags":[4877,3781,3779,4537,3463,20,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Belmond_Grand_Hibernian_DSCF2542.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Io","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972"}],"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=21972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22020,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972\/revisions\/22020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}