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Broadstone Railway station VR tour

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  • #2
    tabbey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    tallaghtfornia wrote: »
    Hi All
    Just seen this on the journal I have always been curious what the inside of this old station looks like and this VR tour looks well.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/broadstone-station-vr-tour-3836271-Feb2018/

    I have been inside the building during "Open House" weekend, it is a fine place, although one year a guide kept getting mixed up about Midland Great Western, saying Great Midland and Western instead.

    The Journal also makes mistakes, saying the last train departed in 1961, but that was the last locomotive, as it was a steam depot until then. The last real train left in 1937. The stationmaster was transferred to Westland Row, along with the Midland trains, presumably other staff moved to all sorts of places.


  • #3
    MGWR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭MGWR


    Well, thanks to "BXD", that station's out of the running for an alternate terminus for Maynooth, Sligo and Westport trains. IE wanted to reopen it for that purpose too, to alleviate the often-talked-about congestion at Connolly.


  • #4
    tabbey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    MGWR wrote: »
    Well, thanks to "BXD", that station's out of the running for an alternate terminus for Maynooth, Sligo and Westport trains. IE wanted to reopen it for that purpose too, to alleviate the often-talked-about congestion at Connolly.

    A heavy rail into Broadstone coonecting with an underground network to city centre and Heuston would provide a far superior service, but as you said, sacrificing it in favour of the cheap option was the choice of successive short-sighted governments.


  • #5
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,247 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    tabbey wrote: »

    The Journal also makes mistakes, saying the last train departed in 1961, but that was the last locomotive, as it was a steam depot until then. The last real train left in 1937. The stationmaster was transferred to Westland Row, along with the Midland trains, presumably other staff moved to all sorts of places.

    The last stationmaster came from Mayo. He was grandfather to my cousin's husband. There ya go :)


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