Southern Way No 54, just published, has a fascinating article on Bulleid’s last experimental loco, the CIE Turf Burner. Seen here on test at one of the Dublin stations which is unidentified, could it be Westland Row or Pearce as it is called today? https://t.co/WXzWmkGMYg pic.twitter.com/DDqGrZj8El
— Crécy RAIL (@CrecyRail) April 13, 2021
1957.
Bleedin’ loco.
Station, anyone?
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While checking if the photo was taken in Broadstone (and it wasn’t) I learn that Bus Eireann have just poured a fortune into ‘upgrading’ the bus garage into… an even fancier bus garage!
What massive, depressing waste of a landmark city-centre site bordering on the new Grangegorman TUD campus.
Eamon Ryan asleep (again) at the wheel in transport.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0303/1200537-broadstone-depot-undergoes-15m-restoration/
Pearce? How quickly they forget why it was named Stáisiún na bPiarsach
Maybe pious nationalism isn’t for everyone.
I can’t for the life of me understand why the bus depots are not multi-storey
Indeed; I’d say most busses have many stories to tell.
(I’ll get me ticket machine).