Earlier I\u2019d caught the train being shunted at Heuston Station, and expected it to make the run with Irish Rail 071 in retro orange paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A group of us were in place at Connolly anticipating the navy blue cruise train led by the orange loco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But which platform would make a better photograph?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the last minute, photographer Kevin O\u2019Brien suggested platform 3. I owe him one for the idea. As it happened the Belmond and a late running Belfast-Dublin Enterprise <\/em> approached Connolly at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My friends over on platform 2 didn\u2019t get the view they hoped for since in the final seconds the Enterprise<\/em> effectively blocked the view of the other train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tracking the Light posts every day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the afternoon of Saturday, 14 September 2019, Belmond\u2019s Grand Hibernian was due at Connolly Station, Dublin .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[3781,3779,4537,3613,19,2377,20,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Irish_Rail_sidebyside_071_w_Belmond_and_Enterprise_DSCF2979.jpg?fit=3200%2C2133","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806"}],"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=27806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27811,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions\/27811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Irish_Rail_sidebyside_071_w_Belmond_and_Enterprise_DSCF2979.jpg?resize=474%2C316\")
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