{"id":38343,"date":"2024-02-21T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=38343"},"modified":"2024-02-18T19:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T00:26:14","slug":"dart-at-connolly-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dart-at-connolly-station\/","title":{"rendered":"DART at Connolly Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dublin Area Rapid Transit is an electrified suburban service focused on Dublin&#8217;s Connolly Station. This shares routes with diesel powered trains and provides a regular interval passenger service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The oldest of its cars are the German built 8100, 8300 series units that date to beginning of the service in the early 1980s. I first photographed the DART in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made these photos on Satruday using a Lumix LX3. Kris and I were on our way to Malahide, which is the northern extremity of the DART service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following its recent re-introduction to my camera arsenal, I&#8217;m continuing to experiment with a Lumix LX3, after nearly a decade since my original LX3 failed following more than 65,000 exposures. 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