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

No. 74

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:16:27 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Lovely location for a railway station, at the foot of the Rock of Cashel in Tipperary. Am I raving or have we seen engine 74 somewhere else? And was this part of the Great Southern and Western Railway?

Date: Circa January 1905

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_08661

Filming at Westland Row Station

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 04:30:45 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

No idea what film this was, but there are the film crew doing their stuff at Westland Row Train Station, now Pearse Station, in Dublin.

Date: Friday, 24 June 1960

NLI Ref.: ODEA 20/89A

Filling her up

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:48:43 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

This is engine 207 (aka Boyne) at Conniberry, Co. Laois. According to our catalogue, this picture was taken while 207 was "getting coal supplies". However, the consensus from comments below is that it is water that's being taken on, so I'll change the description in our catalogue...

Thanks to a link provided by blackpoolbeach, we now know this engine was blue!

Date: Monday, 24 April 1961

NLI Ref.: ODEA 25/44

Emptying her out

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:48:43 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

And here is engine 207 (aka Boyne) at Amiens Street Station (now Connolly Station) in Dublin, being emptied of cinders, clinkers, ash...

Date: Sunday, 21 June 1964

NLI Ref.: ODEA 39/38

March 3, 1918

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:39:23 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

A group of railway men, we tought, and this photo was commissioned by a Mr Larkin, who seems to have had something to do with Labour Congresses in 1918.

The railway link is confirmed by the men who are holding copies of The New Way, which was "The organ of railway workers and railway users in Ireland" (thanks blackpoolbeach!)

Meanwhile John Spooner and RETRO STU also confirmed that these would have been members of the N.U.R. or National Union of Railwaymen.

See comment below for background to a serious railway strike in Ireland... And our thanks go to desmondg47 who let us know that this photo was taken outside Mount Sion CBS at the corner of Barrack Street and Green Street, Waterford.

Date: Sunday, 3 March 1918

NLI Ref.: P_WP_2748

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

Not Movable

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:48:08 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Five railwaymen pictured at Broadstone Station in Dublin. This photo was taken four days before Broadstone was closed on 8 April 1961.

Broadstone Station was opened in 1847, and was the Dublin Terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway.

Date: 4 April 1961

NLI Ref.: ODEA25/13