Bart BusschotsAn #IrishRail Commuter train accelerating away from #Leixlip Confey station along the banks of the #RoyalCanal on a beautiful summer afternoon.
Unlike the steam loco due to pull this #RPSI “The Midlander” special, the #IrishRail 071-class diesel locos have two cabs, so the look the same from both ends! Here the loco is pulling the return leg from #Maynooth back to Dublin along the #RoyalCanal, using the opposite cab to the first leg!
A sunny summer commute for the passengers on this #IrishRail service to Dublin as it accelerates away from #Maynooth along a very lush and green #RoyalCanal. #train
Right on time, but not at all what myself and my fellow train spotters were expecting, the fifty year old diesel loco 071, in it’s commemorative original 1970s livery appeared pulling the #RPSI “the Midlander” ‘steam’ special towards #Maynooth at Pike Bridge on the #RoyalCanal. #IrishRail
Mark Dennehy2 hours 40 minutes from my desk to my door, which is a 40 minute drive.
Fuck public transport. Fuck #IrishRail. Pave the whole fucking county over and make it one big road for private cars with only one occupant allowed by law. Fuck public services that think it's only inconvenient for hundreds of people to lost hours of their lives to this incompetent bullshit *every fucking week*.
I swear to fuck, #IrishRail would have the dalai lama strangling people from the stress of trying to get home on public transport.
And you scuttering gobshites aren't helping. Don't drive your truck into 600 volt powerlines. Don't lean your bike against the sign banning bikes on the train. Don't leave your fecking backpack on your back when you decide not to wait for people to get off the train before you shove your way on you fecking disgrace.
IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING DIFFICULT.
We need a big steel bar in front of every level crossing so when some fuckwit thinks he's special and his van will fit and the signs just mean you have to do boring reading, said fuckwit experiences a sudden stop twenty feet shy of the crossing as his van gets torn open like a giant can opener took issue with him personally.
An #IrishRail Commuter #train approaching #Maynooth along the banks of the #RoyalCanal on a glorious summer afternoon!
A sunny view for the #IrishRail commuters on their way from Maynooth to Dublin along the #RoyalCanal yesterday ☀️
KeithSo in this dystopian future people under 16 won't be able to access real-time rail updates, and the rest of us will have to provide a passport and a selfie to find out if the train is running late !
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0615/1578495-social-media-ban-ireland/