{"id":22073,"date":"2018-09-05T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22073"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:37:20","slug":"ni-railways-at-botanic-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ni-railways-at-botanic-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Railways at Botanic, Belfast."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes a station name conveys a grander image than what\u2019s really there.<\/p>\n

Cherry Orchard in Dublin comes to mind. \u00a0Put out visions of lush blossoming trees in a bucolic pastoral setting, and replace it with industrial squalor, palisade fencing, graffiti and garbage. Yet, it\u2019s still a good place to catch trains on the move.<\/p>\n

Then we have today\u2019s featured location: NI Railway\u2019s modern station at Botanic in Belfast. For me the name invokes images of flowing beautiful gardens, tall majestic trees and rows of manicured flowers, perhaps a fountain.<\/p>\n

Er, not exactly.<\/p>\n

While more salubrious than Dublin\u2019s Cherry Orchard (and undoubtedly safer too), Botanic isn\u2019t a wonderland.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not a bad place to picture trains.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a couple of Lumix Views.<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX-7 view, August 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX-7 view, August 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sometimes a station name conveys a grander image than what\u2019s really there. Cherry Orchard in Dublin comes to mind. \u00a0Put out visions of lush blossoming trees in a bucolic pastoral setting, and replace it with industrial squalor, palisade fencing, graffiti and garbage. Yet, it\u2019s still a good place to catch trains on the move. Then … Continue reading NI Railways at Botanic, Belfast.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22074,"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":[48],"tags":[4888,1139,1619,1621],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NIR_3021_Botanic_P1770653.jpg?fit=3265%2C2449","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5K1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073"}],"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=22073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22078,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions\/22078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}