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High-speed rail coming to Ireland?

According to the Irish Independent (vie Boards.ie) there are plans for high-speed train route between Dublin to Cork.

The infrastructure plans would see 200kmh adopted in the link between Clondalkin, Co Dublin and Limerick Junction, over 62pc of the route distance….

Barry Kenny, Iarnrod Eireann spokesperson, said yesterday: "The Cork-Dublin route is our flagship Intercity route, with almost 4,000,000 passenger journeys annually today."

The high-speed of 200kmh/125mmph in question is that achieved by the UK in 1990. However, it’s a positive move all the same…

"A two-hour city centre to city centre journey time would simply be impossible for any other transport mode in this country to even come close to matching," he said.

Projection: Dublin rail map

This network map is something Blurred Keys is messing with at the moment...

Click here to open the image so you can scroll down.

New Irish Intercity trains

One of the new Iarnród Éireann Intercity trains, well a photo of a photo from the current ad been run by IE in Irish newspapers, the first photo was taken while it was on test somewhere on the network...

Photos: NYC & DC

These are from a short trip to the east coast of the

US in August. Blurred Keys was literally was in New York for 24 hours, from getting a taxi in from JFK to the hotel, to crossing the road from the hotel to Amtrak’s underground Pen station for the Acela express to DC.

An underground inter-city station is somewhat strange.

New York’s skyline pales in comparison to Shanghai - with the Chinese city’s endless stream of high-rises.

From the Empire State Building

The reason for this visit was my cousin’s wedding in Rockville, a city just outside DC, in Maryland (which some-how isn’t pronounced ‘Mary-land’). Although my camera stayed in the Courtyard hotel in Rockville.

 

The photographs of the Whitehouse (front and back), the Washington monument etc were all taken on the way to the airport, all taken in the company of a large backpack. The Whitehouse’s snipers probably had me in their sites, but anyone who has received this story stated that ‘redheads don’t fit the profile’.