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Waterford/Rosslare Strand Railway reaches the buffer stops (again)!

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    #1442
    Transportuser09
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Transportuser09


    Partizan wrote: »
    so there will be a train running for us ordinary plebs?

    Savetherail's post would suggest yes.


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    #1443
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Transportuser09 wrote: »
    In fairness this decision is probably more the responsibilty of head management than local ones, who are reported to have actually submitted a draft for a better timetable that was refused. Will be interesting to see if the headhonchos from Dublin will make an appearance.

    to a last train running on a line the have no interest in, not a chance


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    #1444
    Partizan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Partizan


    will you be there Cookie?


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    #1445
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Partizan wrote: »
    will you be there Cookie?

    haha, no. not a chance. I've better things to be doing


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    #1446
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    save the rail wrote: »
    no its not booked out, big guys - all the managers from waterford area at least not sure who else
    wouldn't they fill at least a few carriages?


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    #1447
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    wouldn't they fill at least a few carriages?

    That's what the two extra carriages are for. :rolleyes: There will probably be a fleet of taxis waiting to return them for a slap-up feed in Waterford afterwards to celebrate another great day in the annals of Can Ireland Endure.


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    #1448
    highlydebased
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    I wonder will the management from No Trains Anymore be there to celebrate their victory with IE?:D


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    #1449
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    another great day in the annals of Can Ireland Endure.

    YES WE CAN!

    oh wait, no sorry, wrong county... never mind
    *shuffles off


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    #1450
    Partizan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Partizan


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    That's what the two extra carriages are for. :rolleyes: There will probably be a fleet of taxis waiting to return them for a slap-up feed in Waterford afterwards to celebrate another great day in the annals of Can Ireland Endure.

    A nice big chicken dinner is in the offing no doubt. :D


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    #1451
    Partizan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Partizan


    I plan to turn up and give the IE/NTA wasters a piece of my mind.

    Only in Ireland and under FF would incompetence on this scale be tolerated.

    I cant wait for the election. get these bastards out.


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    #1452
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Partizan wrote: »
    A nice big chicken dinner is in the offing no doubt. :D
    might even be something a bit stronger than the auld ginger beer to wash the line out of existence:)


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    #1453
    Calina
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Calina


    You know, the whole chicken dinner is starting to smack of trolling and lack of originality.

    This is just a point from your friendly moderator.


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    #1454
    marathont
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭marathont


    Excuse my ignorance, but can someone let me in on this 'in joke' about chicken dinners.


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    #1455
    save the rail
    Closed Accounts Posts: 170 ✭✭save the rail


    marathont wrote: »
    Excuse my ignorance, but can someone let me in on this 'in joke' about chicken dinners.

    The IRRS ran a tour on the line and included in the price was a lunch menu & chicken dinner was one of the things on the menu.


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    #1456
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    save the rail wrote: »
    The IRRS ran a tour on the line and included in the price was a lunch menu & chicken dinner was one of the things on the menu.

    its always on the menu for any of the tours, is that not what it is?


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    #1457
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    save the rail wrote: »
    The IRRS ran a tour on the line and included in the price was a lunch menu & chicken dinner was one of the things on the menu.

    It goes back decades further than that. It comes from a time when no trip of the Munster branch of the IRRS was complete without having a chicken dinner - even the time they hired a special train in the amusement park in Tramore. :D

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    #1458
    Ham'nd'egger
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    Calina wrote: »
    You know, the whole chicken dinner is starting to smack of trolling and lack of originality.

    This is just a point from your friendly moderator.

    I'd also like to read a railway thread that didn't include the usual backbiting and personal vendetta/grudges from JD. Given his obvious bitter hatred it's asking a lot from him:rolleyes:


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    #1459
    Transportuser09
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    It goes back decades further than that. It comes from a time when no trip of the Munster branch of the IRRS was complete without having a chicken dinner - even the time they hired a special train in the amusement park in Tramore. :D

    002.jpg&t=1

    God that's hilarious. I mean people getting dinner on a day out. Funniest thing I've ever heard.


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    #1460
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Transportuser09 wrote: »
    God that's hilarious. I mean people getting dinner on a day out. Funniest thing I've ever heard.

    You forgot to add the :rolleyes:

    Some people here need to lighten up a bit. If I was as bitter as some seem to think I wouldn't be wasting my time on the Boards and would probably be doing time in the Mountjoy instead. :D


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    #1461
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Hamndegger wrote: »
    I'd also like to read a railway thread that didn't include the usual backbiting and personal vendetta/grudges from JD. Given his obvious bitter hatred it's asking a lot from him:rolleyes:

    Why don't you go and start a thread yourself then and mark it JD stay out on the first post - and I will, provided it doesn't contain innuendo about me picked up in the back of a taxi. :D


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    #1462
    topnotch
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    The IRRS will be in serious trouble in a few years time unless they can recruit some new young members . The age profile of their members is shocking, look at all the grey heads in the photos. In ten years time the will be giving liquid lunches.:pac::pac::pac:


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    #1463
    dowlingm
    Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    topnotch wrote: »
    The IRRS will be in serious trouble in a few years time unless they can recruit some new young members
    The gender profile approaches that of a monastery on Mount Athos... though I'm not sure the same couldn't be said for this board.


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    #1464
    [Deleted User]
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    topnotch wrote: »
    The IRRS will be in serious trouble in a few years time unless they can recruit some new young members . The age profile of their members is shocking, look at all the grey heads in the photos. In ten years time the will be giving liquid lunches.:pac::pac::pac:

    I'm 26 and a member of the IRRS, have been for about 3 years. Makes me wonder if I'm too young for this hobby sometimes!


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    #1465
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    I am 35 and fully grey. What are you saying?


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    #1466
    foggy_lad
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    dowlingm wrote: »
    The gender profile approaches that of a monastery on Mount Athos... though I'm not sure the same couldn't be said for this board.
    or the board of CIE


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    #1467
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Haddockman wrote: »
    I am 35 and fully grey. What are you saying?

    still better than no hair ;)


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    #1468
    Oliver1985
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    save the rail wrote: »
    The IRRS ran a tour on the line and included in the price was a lunch menu & chicken dinner was one of the things on the menu.

    What type of Chicken is it? Do they serve veg with it? :D


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    #1469
    dowlingm
    Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    Oliver1985 wrote: »
    What type of Chicken is it? Do they serve veg with it? :D
    That reminds me of the old political joke told in various jurisdictions about a Cabinet dinner.

    Waiter - Can I take your order?
    Prime Minister - Steak
    Waiter - And the vegetables?
    Prime Minister - They'll have steak too.


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    #1470
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    dowlingm wrote: »
    That reminds me of the old political joke told in various jurisdictions about a Cabinet dinner.

    Waiter - Can I take your order?
    Prime Minister - Steak
    Waiter - And the vegetables?
    Prime Minister - They'll have steak too.

    Maggie Thatcher on Spitting Image - I think. :D


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    #1471
    steamengine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    By the way, there is a Food and Drink forum under Rec, including a chicken and ginger beer thread - Go for it !!! ;)


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