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Royal Rail Saloon used 1897 to transport the Duke & Duchess of York. Info Wanted!!!

  • 11-08-2010 1:36pm
    #1
    lynchiered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭


    We will be holding another open day at the station on Sunday 29th August from 9am - 5 pm All welcome,

    On Display will be our Royal Carriage, used by the WL&WR as a Royal Saloon in 1897 to transport the Duke & Duchess of York from Limerick to Killaloe and Adare during the occasion of their visit to Ireland.

    We are currently putting together a booklet on this carriage in preparation for her restoration, If anyone has any additional history or info on her we would be grateful if you could post below or e-mail us.

    Kind Regards

    Paul Lynch
    Belturbet Railway and Vintage Association
    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001250102768
    belturbetrailwayandvintage@yahoo.ie


Comments

  • #2
    lynchiered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭lynchiered


    come on people somebody must some info!!!
    :-)


  • #3
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    lynchiered wrote: »
    come on people somebody must some info!!!
    :-)

    Why would anybody here know? Try IRN. If it wasn't for myself and a couple of other enthusiasts the wretched thing would have met the same fate as its two 6-wheel conterparts at Claremorris. They, another WL&WR carriage and an MGWR postal van, were pushed up the stub of the Ballinrobe branch and smashed up with a digger. The Mansell wheels belong to me and were/are dumped down the embankment out the line.


  • #4
    Transportuser09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Transportuser09


    At a guess the Irish Railway Record Society (Heuston Station, Dublin) might have information in their archives. There was a book on the WL&WR published a few years back as well.


  • #5
    interlocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 508 ✭✭✭interlocked


    http://cgi.ebay.ie/postcard-irish-ireland-railway-claremorris-mayo-/190431603622?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ#ht_500wt_947

    Photo on ebay of your carriage in Claremorris. Possibly taken in 1964, you can ask the seller to confirm. I doubt it budged an inch until it was preserved in the mid eighties.


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