Uploads from National Library of Ireland on The Commons, tagged fifties, with geodata

Dromod Railway Station

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:07:36 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Had an email from Dromod141 wanting photos of his hometown of Dromod in Co. Leitrim, and especially of the railway station where he grew up in the 1960s. So here's one of the former station on the narrow gauge line (closed 1 April 1959 - thanks DannyM8)…

Date: February 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA 8/60

Great Squishing Drama of 1959

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:07:36 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Looks as if we might be witnessing the Great Squishing Drama of 1959 at Dromod, Co. Leitrim…

Date: February 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA 8/62

Railway Footbridge at Churchtown, Dublin

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:58:35 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

One of our Flickr regulars, Niall McAuley, requested this photo from our O'Dea Collection. He thought from our catalogue description that it might be beside his old primary school in Dublin, but there was no digitised image for him to check.

Always delighted to take requests!

Date: Wednesday, 21 January 1959 (long before Niall was born!)

NLI Ref.: ODEA 8/27

Guinness Barge

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:43:04 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

This is the very neat and tidy "Castleknock" - a Guinness Barge - moored on the River Liffey in Dublin (53 years ago today). Niall McAuley provided a great link to the OSI Historic Maps showing this landing stage.

Meanwhile guliolopez unearthed a video of the "Castleknock" in action.

Have a read of this fantastic article on the Guinness Barges from the Heritage Boat Assocation website contributed by blackpoolbeach. Thanks one and all!

P.S. If there's a bit of radio silence from this end, I'd ask you to bear with me. I'm at a conference for the next four days, but I'll try to keep up with comments, etc.

Date: Friday, 26 June 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA 20/91

April 28, 1959

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:04:39 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

So many of our train shots show gleaming metal and shining livery, that we thought you might like this stripped back view inside the belly of the beast, with a shot of a train engine in the repair shop at (we thought) Arigna, Co. Roscommon.

However, while it may have been in the "repair shop" as the photographer James P. O'Dea called it, most commenters are in agreement that this engine was being dismantled or cannibalised for parts, scrap, etc. There are also suggestions that this photo was not taken at Arigna at all, but at nearby Ballinamore. As Flying Snail says:
"I don't think there was a loco repair shop at Arigna. The only workshops on the C&L [Cavan & Leitrim Line] were at Ballinamore, which was frequented heavily by photographers like O'Dea. This is where I suspect the photos is taken if it is a C&L machine we are looking at. The workshop buildings are now incorporated into a school, which the old station at Ballinamore was converted to after closure."

Date: Tuesday, 28 April 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA 11/76

March 27, 1959

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:00:15 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Men working in the aftermath of a derailment at Hybla/Ballyneage, Co. Kildare that happened on Thursday, 26 March 1959.

Next day's Irish Times reported:
"The main line to the South of Ireland was blocked yesterday after the derailment of a goods train between Kildare and Monasterevan. Part of the train's cargo was inflammable weed-killer and some of the drums burst, causing a fire. Fourteen of the 40 wagons were destroyed or damaged.
No one was injured in the mishap, but soon after he was informed by 'phone of the derailment Mr. John Wilson, permanent way inspector, Maryborough, collapsed and died in Mountrath. Mr. Wilson was a native of Arklow.
The train left the rails at Hybla, where a repair gang was working. One 45-foot length of rail had been removed for adjustment and the train ran in on this section. The driver was Mr. Michael Harrington, of Railway Cottages, Inchicore, Dublin, and the guard was Mr. Patrick Cassidy.
Three fire brigades were called to deal with the fire. The blaze was so intense that it melted metal sheeting. A big quantity of sugar was destroyed.
The firemen - from Portarlington, Monasterevan and Newbridge - kept the fire from spreading to the engine and a considerable number of wagon-loads of weed killer was salvaged. Two of the containers exploded while the brigades worked knocking down fireman Paddy Mullen, Of Monasterevan."

Date: Friday, 27 March 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA12/88

C.I.E. Barge 37.M at Portobello

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:50:25 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

This barge had a great audience as it made its way through the lock on the Grand Canal at Portobello, Dublin. And see here for a black and white taken within minutes of this shot.

Date: Summer 1959

NLI Ref.: WIL 77[8]

Tea Time

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:48:30 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Members of either the Sheridan or O'Brien families enjoying a meal at their camp site at Loughrea, Co. Galway.

Date: May 1954

NLI Ref.: WIL k4[54]

January 29, 1959

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:22:49 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

This is signalman, Alby Maher (almost certainly Albert) pictured at Goold's Cross, Co. Tipperary.

Date: Thursday, 29 January 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA 8/45

Sold!

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:05:06 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Harcourt Street Railway Station, sold for £67,500 by Morrissey's Auctioneers. As we saw, the last train ever ran from Harcourt Street Station on New Year's Eve, 1958.

Date: Tuesday, 25 August 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA13/11

January 12, 1959

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:15:08 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Our Pic of the Day for New Year's Eve was the last train ever to run from Harcourt Street Station in Dublin on 31 December 1958. This photo was taken 13 days later and shows a very bereft platform in the abandoned station.

Date: 12 January 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA 8/1

December 31, 1958

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:22:05 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Kind of a sad one for our Pic of the Day from New Year's Eve in 1958. This is the last train ever to run from Harcourt Street Station in Dublin.

This photo ran in the Irish Independent on New Year's Day 1959, with an article describing the event. Here's an extract:
"An hour after the last train had left Harcourt Station at 4.25 p.m. yesterday the 100-year-old terminus bore a derelict look as a sad-faced staff locked up for the last time.
The departure of the last train will be long remembered by hundreds of people for among the 500 passengers, there were young children who were having their first and last train journey on that route.
Hundreds of people gathered at the station and outside to watch the end of the service. As the train moved out promptly on schedule fog signals exploded and passengers waved to the crowds on the platform.
With tears in her eyes, Mrs Maggie McLoughlin, of York St., who had been selling newspapers at the station for 39 years, said good-bye alone and unnoticed in a corner of the station.
At Bray hundreds of people were waiting on the station to greet the train as it arrived. Some young men attempted to remove fittings as souvenirs but were prevented by the Gardaí on duty."

Date: Wednesday, 31 December 1958

NLI Ref.: INDR2238

December 25, 1959

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:53:37 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

This is the steam boat train crossing the pier at Dun Laoghaire, Dublin on Christmas Day, 1959.

Date: 25 December 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA17/97

Sutton to the Hill of Howth

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:39:13 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Queues and great excitement in Sutton as passengers vie to get one last trip on a tram from Sutton to Howth. The service was suspended on 31 May 1959 and replaced by a bus service.

The two motorists are C.F. Grant and J. Nugent in a 1910 Swift.

Date: Sunday, 31 May 1959

NLI Ref.: IND6.646

Travellers' Decorated Caravan

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:33:47 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Family in their decorated caravan en route to the Cahirmee Horse Fair at Buttevant, Co. Cork.

Thanks to Frank Fullard for letting us know that "the fair of Cahirmee (which is now actually held in Buttevant) is still going strong and the members of the travelling community are still as much a part of it as ever." In fact, Frank took some great photos at the Fair in 2011...

Date: July 1954

NLI Ref.: WIL m12[54]

March 15, 1959

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:08:26 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

An Irish Railway Records Society special train excursion captured at Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. Interesting to see some women in this photo, but maybe they were just locals who came out to see what all the fuss was about... We thought this station was closed for good soon after this photo was taken, and it's great to get confirmation of that from billh35 that "the station would close 6 days later on 21st March 1959".

Date: Sunday, 15 March 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA 9/40

December 28, 1959

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:45:33 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Presenting the gloriously named Bill Biggs and friend at the door of his signal box at Castleblayney East, Co. Monaghan.

Date: 28 December 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA 18/9

Irish Railway Record Society

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:00:47 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Members of the Irish Railway Record Society at York Road Station, Belfast. The I.R.R.S. was formed just 13 years before this photo was taken.

Believe that the new(ish) Yorkgate station was built on this site. if anyone could confirm that, it'd be great (or if you have any information on York Road station as it was at the time this photo was taken, it'd be very welcome too). Anybody able to identify people in the photo will go straight to the top of the class! Doesn't look as if the I.R.R.S. was inundated with female members at this time...

Date: 26 September 1959

NLI Ref.: ODEA16/55