{"id":21934,"date":"2018-08-20T07:52:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T11:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21934"},"modified":"2018-08-20T04:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:15:03","slug":"irish-rail-222-the-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-222-the-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail 222\u2014The Bishop."},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Irish Rail locomotives have nicknames. Engine 222 is \u2018The Bishop\u2019 or \u2018Bishop Tutu\u2019, which is an allusion to its number.<\/p>\n

Over the last 20 years, I\u2019ve caught this locomotive at many places across the Irish network.<\/p>\n

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Irish Rail 222 working push-pull set at Cherryville Junction on 20 September 2002. Exposed on Fujichrome with a Nikon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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10 June 2006; An electrical power cut at Westport, County Mayo had required the use of portable generators at the station. In addition to the discordant cacophony at the normally peaceful location, this had resulted in some unusual moves to get trains positioned properly, such as this view of 222 with Mark 3s beyond the station to the West.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See: DAILY POST: Timber and General Motors, June 10, 2006\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Irish Rail 222 works a Dublin to Cork Mark4 set nearing Kent Station, Cork.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Now officially 02-10222. The Bishop basks in the evening sun at Heuston Station in Dublin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Working the IWT liner from Dublin to Ballina, at my all to often photographed location at Islandbridge in Dublin. Exposed digitally using my FujiFilm XT1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Many Irish Rail locomotives have nicknames. Engine 222 is \u2018The Bishop\u2019 or \u2018Bishop Tutu\u2019, which is an allusion to its number. Over the last 20 years, I\u2019ve caught this locomotive at many places across the Irish network. See: DAILY POST: Timber and General Motors, June 10, 2006\u00a0 Tracking the Light Posts every day!     … Continue reading Irish Rail 222\u2014The Bishop.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21939,"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],"tags":[4732,1864,897,7535,20,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Irish_Rail-_222_with-Liner_and_an_ICR_Islandbridge_juncDSCF6367.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5HM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21944,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21934\/revisions\/21944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}