Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Go West...

Your probably familiar with those Failte Ireland ads telling us to go West... the one's with the catchy "All these highs and lows" song...

Well this day last week, I was way out West, Sligo to be exact... and there was plenty of highs and lows in my trip!

The train to Sligo was one of these new Wasps (or 22,000's, if your into your trains). The journey was very comfortable and pleasant. However the return journey to Dublin was another story. A commuter train was operating the return trip, and the journey was painful! These trains just aren't suitable for long distance travel, anything more than an hour is too much. As the song by Go West says 'We Close Our Eyes' and clearly eyes were closed when the decision to allocate these trains to InterCity services was made!

Anyway, less of my complaining, back to the point, here is Sligo's ME208 operating the Sligo City Service, Route 478. The days for these Imps in Sligo look limited as DPC109 has transferred in with more DPC's due to replace the remaining Imps...