The Dublin Area Rapid Transit (Dart) is a light rail system, but in terms of capacity it’s closer to U.S. heavy rail/commuter lines. Unlike the LUAS these trains actually do go out into the countryside although we didn’t go that far. In town at least the track and stations are elevated and happily they do tell you how long the wait is for a train. We did a quick one stop round trip from Tara station to Pearce if memory serves. The first train was a more classical model while the second was still fairly shiny and new.
In any event it was good to ride the Dart after taking so many pictures of traveling on various bridges around the city. Sadly I wasn’t able to get a smart card at Tara station and had to get a normal fare card. I’ve considered starting up a collection of smart cards but have utterly failed to do so at every opportunity outside of my hometown.
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