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Western Rail Corridor (all disused sections)

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    #8972
    Hugh Jampton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Hugh Jampton


    Wagon360 wrote: »
    I must find out how I can contact the anti-cycling element of West on Track. You make them sound like a dark, evil octopus with many tentacles! :p

    Maybe there is a lair that looks like Shepperton Studio somewhere with a scarred mysterious leader with a white Persian cat on his knee :pac:


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    #8973
    Hugh Jampton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Hugh Jampton


    What's the maximum page count for a thread, anyway? :D


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    #8974
    Wagon360
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Wagon360


    Hugh Jampton wrote: »
    What's the maximum page count for a thread, anyway? :D

    Don't know, is there a maximum page count?


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    #8975
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Wagon360 wrote: »
    Don't know, is there a maximum page count?

    Threads get closed around 10k posts. So maximum pages will be 10k divided by the minimum posts per page.


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    #8976
    Wagon360
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Wagon360


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Threads get closed around 10k posts. So maximum pages will be 10k divided by the minimum posts per page.

    So only another 1124 posts left before this thread closes? This thread could be gone within a month so.


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    #8977
    eastwest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭eastwest


    Wagon360 wrote: »
    I must find out how I can contact the anti-cycling element of West on Track. You make them sound like a dark, evil octopus with many tentacles! :p

    Excellent diversion!


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    #8978
    Wagon360
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Wagon360


    eastwest wrote: »
    Excellent diversion!

    I aim to please :)


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    #8979
    eastwest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭eastwest


    Wagon360 wrote: »
    So only another 124 posts left before this thread closes? This thread could be gone within a week so.

    A bit like the argument for trains!


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    #8980
    Wagon360
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Wagon360


    Or Greenways instead of trains, all depends on your personal preference I guess.


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    #8981
    Wagon360
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Wagon360


    Does anybody have pictures of the last rail tours that went on the WRC between Athenry and Claremorris? Certainly Westrail were active many years ago.


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    #8982
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I reckon less than 4 years before I'm cycling on this route. Quite looking forward to it


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    #8983
    Hugh Jampton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Hugh Jampton


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I reckon less than 4 years before I'm cycling on this route. Quite looking forward to it

    I reckon in four years time they'll be turning the sod for GLUAS in Galway before there'll be a cycleway over the railway. Quite looking forward to that :p


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    #8984
    westtip
    Registered Users Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭westtip


    Wagon360 wrote: »
    I must find out how I can contact the anti-cycling element of West on Track. You make them sound like a dark, evil octopus with many tentacles! :p

    They are not that important, in fact I would say for most of the body politic outside of Mayo county council planning and management executive and a few West of Ireland TDs still aspiring to be all things to all men they are a complete irrelevance. I would say that is also supported by the way official strategic documentation is now being written, as already referred to in previous posts the Ireland 2040 strategy and the North West Assembly Issues document for public consultation as part of the Ireland 2040 project, in which the western rail corridor has seemingly, a bit like West on Track been consigned to history.


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    #8985
    Wagon360
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Wagon360


    westtip wrote: »
    They are not that important, in fact I would say for most of the body politic outside of Mayo county council planning and management executive and a few West of Ireland TDs still aspiring to be all things to all men they are a complete irrelevance. I would say that is also supported by the way official strategic documentation is now being written, as already referred to in previous posts the Ireland 2040 strategy and the North West Assembly Issues document for public consultation as part of the Ireland 2040 project, in which the western rail corridor has seemingly, a bit like West on Track been consigned to history.

    Well if they and the wrc aren’t all that important and consigned to history why are Greenway supporters posting about them constantly? It might be pointed out that West on Track never make any posts about you...

    Oh and thanks for the steer.


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    #8986
    westtip
    Registered Users Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭westtip


    Hugh Jampton wrote: »
    I reckon in four years time they'll be turning the sod for GLUAS in Galway before there'll be a cycleway over the railway. Quite looking forward to that :p

    Don't give up the day job Hugh, you are never going to make it as a stand up comedian! :D


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    #8987
    eastwest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭eastwest


    westtip wrote: »
    Don't give up the day job Hugh, you are never going to make it as a stand up comedian! :D
    In fairness, I thought it was pretty funny!


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    #8988
    Hugh Jampton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Hugh Jampton


    westtip wrote: »
    Don't give up the day job Hugh, you are never going to make it as a stand up comedian! :D

    To quote Bob Monkhouse, ‘They all laughed when I told them I was going to be a comedian. They’re not laughing now’

    ;)


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    #8989
    Muckyboots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Muckyboots


    Hugh Jampton wrote: »
    I reckon in four years time they'll be turning the sod for GLUAS in Galway before there'll be a cycleway over the railway. Quite looking forward to that :p

    I think you mean the Tuam area rapid transport - "TART". Everyone loves a Tuam tart.


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    #8990
    Hugh Jampton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Hugh Jampton


    Muckyboots wrote: »
    I think you mean the Tuam area rapid transport - "TART". Everyone loves a Tuam tart.

    To be linked with Claremorris Area Rapid Transit..

    I'll get me coat. :pac:


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    #8991
    eastwest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭eastwest


    Muckyboots wrote: »
    I think you mean the Tuam area rapid transport - "TART". Everyone loves a Tuam tart.

    No truth in the rumour that it might be extended to Foxford?


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    #8992
    TCDStudent1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭TCDStudent1


    Wagon360 wrote: »
    Does anybody have pictures of the last rail tours that went on the WRC between Athenry and Claremorris? Certainly Westrail were active many years ago.

    Whats westrail?


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    #8993
    eastwest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭eastwest


    TCDStudent1 wrote: »
    Whats westrail?

    A railway hobby group from back in the 1980s.


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    #8994
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Classic - people posting in this thread - one who's never heard of Westrail and the other who has invented a new word for a railway preservation society. :D

    ****



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    #8995
    eastwest
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭eastwest


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Classic - people posting in this thread - one who's never heard of Westrail and the other who has invented a new word for a railway preservation society. :D

    It's shocking. Fierce shortage of anoraks altogether.


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    #8996
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Classic - people posting in this thread - one who's never heard of Westrail and the other who has invented a new word for a railway preservation society. :D
    I've never heard of it either - I didn't realise that there were qualifications required to contribute.

    I try to be positive about things and try to see the opportunities but your attitude will alienate people, harden opposition to an expansion of the WRC and reinforce stereotypes of the WRC supporters.


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    #8997
    Isambard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Isambard


    you're a dinosaur Del Monte...me too.... :-(


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    #8998
    Hugh Jampton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Hugh Jampton


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Classic - people posting in this thread - one who's never heard of Westrail and the other who has invented a new word for a railway preservation society. :D

    Any sign of issue no 4 of Travellers Fare yet? :p


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    #8999
    Hugh Jampton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Hugh Jampton


    eastwest wrote: »
    It's shocking. Fierce shortage of anoraks altogether.

    Well between anoraks and age-inappropriate lycra.. :D


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    #9000
    Hugh Jampton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Hugh Jampton


    And its post 9000 - :eek: (not my post 9000 though)

    What do ye reckon will happen before post 9,999 and the lock? :)


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    #9001
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    More pedantism


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