LUAS Dublin Tram. Full ride on LUAS Red Line from Saggart to The Point.

[@Rasher1974]

As a dubliner living abroad for over 60 years what a testimony to the progress we have made comparable to anywhere in Europe I have been and looks a lot cleaner.

[@youronurowndorothea7]

trust me. its filthy.

[@seanbonella]

@@youronurowndorothea7 move out then if you hate it then knob

[@thegaelicgladiator665]

​@@youronurowndorothea7it just fuckin isn't

[@chrisbyrne5358]

Come home for a visit soon Micheal❤🇮🇪

[@chrisbyrne5358]

@@youronurowndorothea7beauty is in the eye of the beholder

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

The next time I come home to Ireland from where I’ve lived in Manchester U.K. for 23 years, I’m going to get a LEAP card and I’m going to try to fully explore the LUAS lines as much as I can and to see just how it compares to Manchester’s Metrolink Tram network - in this video, that I’m playing on my iPad, I’ve enjoyed following along the stops on the map on my iPhone

[@drmidhunjn]

Thank you very much for this....Never hoped this to see and hear again... For me this is almost like a Spiritual Journey to the past.....when I studied in University College Dublin. Nostalgic are the days when I travel from Saggart to Abbey Street...crossing Fortunestown, City west Campus, Belgard, Redcow, Kylemore, Blackhorse, Art Musuem, Four Courts... Is garage &parking station of Luas in Kylemore or Redcow? There is a small water channel with an adjacent road where people used to run, on left side when travel towards The point from saggart, between Belgard and Rialto... That's a pleasant village scene... We became alert after hearing announcement "Jarvis".....because I have to go to Abbey street. Accompanying female Irish accent of places is mesmerizing... From O connell, near the Spire, in front of Burger King, 46A and 155 buses towards UCD.. College..... Happy are those days...

[@davidlally592]

Mm an interesting aspect of both LUAS Lines (red and green) is re its running gauge (the space between its rails). On LUAS it uses "Standard Gauge" (4ft 8 1/2 ins), as used in GB and on the Continent. This is solely because it does not directly interface with the IE (Iarnrod Eireann/Irish Rail) system which runs (in both NI and the Republic) on the almost unique "Irish Gauge" of 5ft 3ins!! Thus when being built, the LUAS trams could be as standard, whereas any main line stock for either NI Rail or for IE, have to be specially " bogied" !!

[@trainsinireland5063]

Lovely Journey you Filmed Danny!😃.

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Thanks for your comment Alan!

[@PotatoChipBaby]

Hey nice film Tram

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Thanks

[@PotatoChipBaby]

Danny can you Flim Dublin bus From Bueamont to Dundrum Luas

[@PotatoChipBaby]

Danny Are you Sure

[@fionakierton1231]

Bring back so many memories

[@trilingualfudge7307]

I remember when I was a child travelling when this line originally opened in the 1940s, had my mum come along and we ran up and down all the tram routes in Dublin till we were both so exhausted my mum had to take the day off work for a straight week to rest.

[@Harsha04120]

Didn’t the Lucas service start in 2004? Or was there like another tram type thing before?

[@trilingualfudge7307]

@@Harsha04120 you young ones and yer little tricks cant fool old gramps o'er here! i was born in 1922 but me and me mither were still able to get a good ride on the tram o'er here. Cannae believe how time flies and people forget such recent history. I mean, me mither wis literally a partae the famines heaven sake

[@concernedcitizen3163]

@@trilingualfudge7307 what are you bullshitting about, the Luas was built in 2004

[@annabelholland]

Is there any need to use the bell before leaving the station? I also think there is the horn that is only used outside the streets. Buses donot use their horns when leaving the bus stop and only if absoulutely necessary. I never use my bell on my bike except for the reasons above. And nice to see a girl doing the work for an hour/

[@joshuaW5621]

Imagine hearing places like Rathcoole, Foxrock, Loughlinstown, Shankill, Bray or Enniskerry in the Luas. I know those places aren’t currently served by the Luas, but it’s a fun what if idea.

[@ezioaltairac]

Love for Enniskerry and the south to have Luas access, or any train access.

[@arwelp]

The Red Line’s pretty colourful - Red Cow, Bluebell, Blackhorse, Goldenbridge… !

[@karolymikulecz8420]

Ez nagyon klassz csak gratulalni tudok❤

[@glenmatteson149]

Thanks for posting these. I teach Introduction to Railway Engineering to mostly civil engineering college seniors and grad students. I plan to do a "light rail" route exercise for some high school students interested in engineering this summer, if Covid-19 allows. I'm curious why some sections have ballasted track, some slab track, and some embedded track (where the pavement surface is flush with the rail heads, usually used only where a surface is shared with pedestrians or motor vehicles). I haven't seen clues in the right-of-way situations.

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Thanks for your comment Glen 😁, cool, I'd love to do that 😀

[@petermuller5800]

Embedded tracks: Maybe they want to provide a "fast lane" for ambulance / police cars in certain areas. At least in Germany it's done that way, in certain sections of tram networks. Or maybe it's for LUAS maintenance cars (overhead wire etc.)? Just an idea.

[@liloanddaisy2020]

Heuston is one of the red line LUAS stops where you can change for Iarnród Éireann along with Dublin Connolly.

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Yup

[@kaitlinbilous4605]

If a train was delayed there: Heuston, we have a problem

[@donnacharyan5393]

I love the luas!!!!

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

👍🏻

[@robato3991]

Great video. Is there a reason why both operators kept pressing their thumb against the accelerator lever?

[@dorinahrinca304]

safety measure in case something happens to the driver. unless the button is pressed the tram will perform an emergency stop as far as i know.

[@Regaus]

I see the Overcrowding line has a bit of distance from stop to stop in places

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Yeah it does.

[@timosha21]

Ding ding!!

[@lucaazim4453]

Thanks for this

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

No problem 😊!

[@PotatoChipBaby]

Hey Danny

[@PotatoChipBaby]

Whatsup

[@lucaazim4453]

Just noticed something @Irish Railways Channel/ IRC, what did they do to the announcement for Belgard

[@raincity5004]

@@ireland_european_railways_zp Why did the driver switch out at red cow

[@japerladole]

idk why I'm 17 and obsessed with the luas

[@G.Edits.28]

Same bro💀

[@3985uprr]

Going from USA to Dublin for vacation this summer. Is it easy to do a front view ride like this?

[@seanbonella]

yeah

[@petermuller5800]

I noticed the LUAS (contrary to its name) goes extremely slow in certain sections... especially when rolling over switches, it seems to go slower than 5 km/h. Is there a particular reason for this? In other cities, tram can roll over switches with 15-20 km/h. Is it the way the tracks are constructed, that they don't allow for higher speed?

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

It's because in Dublin there's lot of drivers at junctions that drive out in front of it no matter how fast or slow it's going, so it's a safety thing I presume.

[@seanbonella]

It's called safety

[@petermuller5800]

@@seanbonella Sure... but I also noticed this in other cities that use Citardis. Somehow there seem to be many speed restrictions with this type of tram. Are the wheels that sensitive that it needs to slow down to

[@shaddowbright]

Great! I like that!

[@tressteleg1]

Hi! Nice video. I do similar ‘Driver’s View’ videos in Australia. My local Gold Coast line also runs quite well but is spoiled by an almost non-stop barrage of announcements which make chatting with a friend quite frustrating. I’m preparing a video about this ‘Yap yap blah blah earbashing Tramway’ and would like to use an excerpt of your video to show how neatly it can be done. Videos I have taken in other places will mostly be used but having a short scene from somewhere else won’t go astray. If you are happy for me to use a short excerpt, it will be accredited to your channel. Thanks, Richard

[@Darvandon_Gaming]

Hands up if you've been on the luas during rush hour ✋✋✋

[@pellertransportguy]

Very nice video what tram unit was this?

[@josephmullen3254]

Hi I love a luas from Dublin to galway reason is it be nice and slow and lovely way to travel ☺

[@zanussidish8144]

Just get Irish Rail and you can wait for 15 minutes at Portarlington because it's a single track.

[@pipeqez911]

A luas from Dublin to Galway... are you out of your mind?

[@josephmullen3254]

@@pipeqez911 it be a lovely way to travel some will agree others won't.

[@motive1236]

Nah LUAS from Galway to Cliffden would make much more sense

[@joshuaW5621]

There’s talks of adding a tram network to Galway similar to the Luas. It’s called Gluas. Honestly I think Gluas should have a line to Clifden.

[@isaacsanchezgallegos1861]

37:33. I am surprised to hear Spanish people speaking. Are there many Spaniards in Dublin?

[@yermanoffthetelly]

A lot of Spanish students visit Ireland and study in private language schools, especially during the summer but at any one time there are about 35k Spanish students in the country (mostly Dublin but also Galway and Cork) There is also a small population of about 12k Spanish people that live here permanently.

[@hamdaahmed7502]

Please can you tell me the school of driving Luas in Dublin I want to learn thanks 🙏💯

[@madamx7422]

It's awesome yet hilarious that even though it's supposed to be known these days as the 3Arena, Luas still calls it The Point 😄 I'm thinking most Dubliners still call it that too, am I right?

[@yascaoimhin]

The area around the stop is the the point. the venue was the point depot

[@madamx7422]

@@yascaoimhin i see, thanks for clearing that up for me 👍 ironically when i was there I saw U2 and when Bono was talking about the venue itself he referred to it as 'The Point' 😄

[@seanbonella]

If they say three arena it's free commercial advertising for them

[@paulpower2528]

as someone who has never used the LUAS ...can you please tell me what happens when you get to the wall outside the 3 arena ??

[@seanbonella]

it goes back the other way

[@paulpower2528]

@@seanbonella cheers sean

[@bbannion6187]

The camera seems to go out of focus a lot 😞

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

I know it does that a lot when I zoom in. Slightly annoying

[@thegamingrascal494]

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[@adammaher6601]

Can you do the 27 Cross-City Route

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

I'll try when I get a chance to, maybe in the summer. Thanks for the suggestion Adam 😀.

[@adammaher6601]

I asked because 27 is my local Coolock Connection to the City Centre

[@adammaher6601]

My Local stop is 1245

[@YouTuber-su2bh]

That was uploaded on my birthday the 23rd November

[@karolymikulecz8420]

Nagyon tettszik

[@Tuppoo94]

My right ear feels kinda lonely xD

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Haha 😂

[@soup-a-starsfm8521]

Can someone tell me what the missing word is? Can never work it out! “____ here for Luas Park & Ride”

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Alight

[@andrewharman8712]

It's not that difficult to understand 😂😂😂

[@raincity5004]

Why did the drivers always switch out at red cow

[@irishrailways22000]

because that's where the main Luas depot is

[@trudyfee1670]

Also to change shifts

[@0scarodonnell878]

Next stop Red Cow

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Yup 😆

[@davidvidal5435]

Should of place the camera further to the right .

[@johnlogiebeard]

Luas Red Line aka The Sumbag Line!

[@Buildbeautiful]

It is when your on it

[@seanbonella]

Get a dictionary since you can't spell....I'm sure your from a nice area

[@joshuaW5621]

Ranelagh on the green line feels like the scumbag joint to me.

[@uhosso]

The hand technique looks painful. I can imagine the long term strain on the joints. An occupational health hazard.

[@sineadkelly7290]

Not as good as the DART . 😉

[@plasticbucket]

Hey there's a woman driving the tram.

[@davidsylvestermarek8298]

Blokade????

[@davidsylvestermarek8298]

144 ?????????????????

[@davidsylvestermarek8298]

4 h Blokade????????????????????????????????????????????

[@davidsylvestermarek8298]

Blokade???????

[@davidsylvestermarek8298]

144 ????????????????????????????????

[@davidsylvestermarek8298]

240 ???????????????????????????????????

[@davidsylvestermarek8298]

Blokade ??????????

[@davidsylvestermarek8298]

Video extrem langsam.

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Extremely slow? 🤣

[@missanni86]

@@ireland_european_railways_zp Yeah it means extremely slow. Although I think this is quite normal and not slow 😂

[@arkadiuszwozniak5082]

I think that journey tram Luas Red Line is boring... 🤔

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

I can actually relate to that 😂

[@arkadiuszwozniak5082]

Maybe video from The Point to Belgard??

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Already did it

[@arkadiuszwozniak5082]

I'm sorry, but I can not see on your channel. 🤔😐

[@ireland_european_railways_zp]

Hi sorry, what I meant was this video covers stops from the Point to Belgard.