{"id":1699,"date":"2025-03-06T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:00:04","slug":"rte-archive-getting-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/rte-archive-getting-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"RTE Archive &#8211; getting it wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/2020\/0605\/1145677-suburban-rail-line-launch\/\">RTE archive<\/a> has a piece on the opening of 4 new stations on the Maynooth Line in 1990 (Broombridge, Castleknock, Coolmine and Leixlip Confey).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blurb contains many errors, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to the service as &#8220;A new Dublin suburban rail line&#8221;. The Maynooth Line service actually started in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stated that the original railway along which the service ran dates back back to the 1870s. The line actually opened in 1847.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stated the railway was originally known as the &#8220;Great Midland and Western Railway&#8221;. No. The railway was originally built\/owned by the Midland Great Western Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RTE archive has a piece on the opening of 4 new stations on the Maynooth Line in 1990 (Broombridge, Castleknock, Coolmine and Leixlip Confey). The blurb contains many errors, including: Referring to the service as &#8220;A new Dublin suburban rail line&#8221;. The Maynooth Line service actually started in 1981. Stated that the original railway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}