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Overview
"After more than ten years in planning and construction, Luas trams emerged during the summer of 2004 as an elegant form of public transport of which Dubliners can be proud. Some forty-six years after the original Harcourt Street Line was closed, the new trams grace the streets and routes to the south of the city and already the government is being urged to extend Luas to new routes around the city centre and to its northside." This celebration of the new Luas line carries the reader from the shining new trams and plans for future developments back in time to the days of steam engines. The eight kilometres from Harcourt Street to Sandyford are conveyed in colourful detail, with text and photographs in complement. The bridge at Dundrum, the sale of the old Harcourt station, passengers Behan, Beckett and Myles na Gopaleen, crashes and old steam engines, all vie for attention in this memento.Synopsis
"After more than ten years in planning and construction, Luas trams emerged during the summer of 2004 as an elegant form of public transport of which Dubliners can be proud. Some forty-six years after the original Harcourt Street Line was closed, the new trams grace the streets and routes to the south of the city and already the government is being urged to extend Luas to new routes around the city centre and to its northside." This celebration of the new Luas line carries the reader from the shining new trams and plans for future developments back in time to the days of steam engines. The eight kilometres from Harcourt Street to Sandyford are conveyed in colourful detail, with text and photographs in complement. The bridge at Dundrum, the sale of the old Harcourt station, passengers Behan, Beckett and Myles na Gopaleen, crashes and old steam engines, all vie for attention in this memento.