{"id":22454,"date":"2018-10-11T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22454"},"modified":"2018-10-11T07:57:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T11:57:28","slug":"exploring-historic-railways-in-carlow-and-wexford-ten-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/exploring-historic-railways-in-carlow-and-wexford-ten-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Historic Railways in Carlow and Wexford\u2014Ten Photos."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not all about trains. It never was.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Ken Fox, Donncha Cronin and I made an exploration of abandoned Irish railways in counties Carlow and Wexford.<\/p>\n

We began at Bagenalstown and worked our toward Wexford.<\/p>\n

I find long abandoned railways inherently compelling, but sometimes difficult to convey in pictures.<\/p>\n

This is a selection of images from my FujiFilm XT1 on the Bagenalstown to Palace East route, a line shut to traffic in the 1960s. In some places structures, bridges and rights-of-way remain, in others the line has been reclaimed and there\u2019s virtually nothing left to see.<\/p>\n

These photos are to convey the aura of the closed line, I’ve made no effort to place them in geographical order.<\/p>\n

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Goresbridge, Co. Carlow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Near Bagenalstown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Palace East, Co. Wexford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Palace East, Co. Wexford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Goresbridge, Co. Carlow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Goresbridge, Co. Carlow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Southeast of Bagenalstown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking toward Bagenalstown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Near Bagenalstown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In tomorrow\u2019s post, I\u2019ll cover the visual highlight of the line.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light explores railroad photography.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not all about trains. It never was. Over the weekend, Ken Fox, Donncha Cronin and I made an exploration of abandoned Irish railways in counties Carlow and Wexford. We began at Bagenalstown and worked our toward Wexford. I find long abandoned railways inherently compelling, but sometimes difficult to convey in pictures. This is a … Continue reading Exploring Historic Railways in Carlow and Wexford\u2014Ten Photos.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22456,"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":[4943,4944,1746,7535,20,323],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Old_line_to_Palace_East_at_Goresbrige_DSCF4811-1.jpg?fit=3464%2C2309","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Qa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454"}],"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=22454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22457,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454\/revisions\/22457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}