Least documented locations?

whisky_galore

Just wondering aloud which locations up and down the country don't appear in the railway press or pictorial histories, escaped being photographed with early closures, were of little interest to passing photographers or in out of the way or non accessable locations?

Always thought there should have been more photos of Tivoli, closed in the 30's but the ruin still stood in place into the 1990's.

Can think of one (poor) photo of Fry Cadbury's Rathmore sidings and another of the elusive Waterford (South), likewise very poor or no coverage of places like Deerpark/Wolfhill colleries, Gowran, Bennettsbridge, Goresbridge, Ardmayle, Kilgarvan/Morley's Bridge, Durrus Road, intermediate stations on Macroom, Kinsale and Mitchelstown branches, nothing at all on Cork (Summerhill) anyone think of any more?

TheBandicoot

The sidings/line to North City Mills just off Glasnevin Junction. I think it is where there is now a hill leading to an access road for PW vehicles, but I can't see how the gradient would have worked. EDIT: looked at the OSI map and it's more interesting, apparently the line even crossed the canal- I just can't visualise it from how the area looks today. You can see in the Google Maps picture that the abutments for the bridge seem to still be there.






The engine shed at Clonsilla.

Also this thread is probably better suited to the Train and Rail Systems board.

Losty Dublin

TheBandicoot wrote: »

EDIT: looked at the OSI map and it's more interesting, apparently the line even crossed the canal- I just can't visualise it from how the area looks today. You can see in the Google Maps picture that the abutments for the bridge seem to still be there.

If the noggin is working right, said bridge was in situ until about 1992 and there are photos knocking about of it.

In the main the railway photo's are there of pretty much everywhere, just not in a readily accessible public domain such as Photobucket, Flickr, Facebook etc and not as abundant as today's snaps. Many more again languish in attics and garden sheds and only see the light of day when their photographer is persuaded to turn them into digital or if he passes on and his family have the luck to find and pass them on.

If you have hours on your hand then a visit the likes of the NLI or IRRS will turn up a lot of unseen pictures of every corner of the country. Certainly the latter have tens of thousands of photos which haven't yet been catalogued or archived via bequeaths, wills or donations; it takes a lot of time to do it and to do it well.

Judgement Day

Precious few photographs exist of the Shillelagh/Woodenbridge Junction line - a few in Ernie Shepherd's David & Charles book. No pics as far, as I know, of the goods workings that continued between Aughrim and Woodenbridge from 1944 until circa 1952. Killinick to Felthouse Junction. Galway/Clifden. Dingle/Dingle Pier..

man98

Wexford South station? Used by Pierce's Foundry for transport , don't know when it closed but the sidings are slightly visible, but the platform no longer remains.

ClovenHoof

There us a photo of a loco on the North City Mills branch from the early 1970s crossing the bridge over the canal in one of the Dublin rail books. When the mill was converted to apartments in the 80's there was a rumour that a rake of wagons was still on site.

The sleepers and track were all still in situ when I was a kid.

ClovenHoof

There is nothing of the later electric steeple cab locos of the Dublin freight tram services on the streets.

Very little of operations inside the vast Saint James Gate rail network either.

whisky_galore

Portumna, before it, well,.... disappeared.

Never seen one of Broadstone train shed interior, when it was open.

ClovenHoof

Never seen photos of the freight workings on the Howth Branch or at the extreme end of Dublin Port passed the Alexandria Tramway.

Losty Dublin

whisky_galore wrote: »

Portumna, before it, well,.... disappeared.
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They barely had invented camera's when that line was lifted

The RDS sidings come to mind.

ClovenHoof

Never saw one of the last oil and freight working to Broadstone until 1980's

The rail served brickworks on the Burma Road between Coolaney and Coolooney nothing either.

whisky_galore

Losty Dublin wrote: »

They barely had invented camera's when that line was lifted

They didn't have cameras either when the Macroom was opened, still got a pic though...


http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/media/cork_macroomrailway_p513_1866.jpg

Also Portumna station house was intact up until the early 1880's at least, and I'd imagine the local Parsons family would have had a camera in their possession.

metrovick001

One of the recent IRRS journals had a photo of the RDS sidings taken by the late David Boyle.

Karsini wrote: »

The RDS sidings come to mind.

Judgement Day

The little photographed Castlecomer Branch when new - postcard on eBay tonight.

Judgement Day

And an interesting view of the GSR Buffet in Bray - to those who may not know, this was located behind the signal cabin and some of the building survives today - I think.

whisky_galore

Limerick City Markets Branch. For something that ran right through city streets surprising that no-one bothered to take any photographs, unlike the 100's that were taken of the Cork City Railway (granted that that lasted into the 70's)

end of the road

the branch from bagenals town to wexford. branched off from the wexford new-ross section of wexford waterford via new-ross? mind you i can't even find any info on it either.

whisky_galore

end of the road wrote: »

the branch from bagenals town to wexford. branched off from the wexford new-ross section of wexford waterford via new-ross? mind you i can't even find any info on it either.

That was covered in the Irish Railways in Colour books iirc.

eejoynt

unlike Clifden and Achill as far as i know no photograph survives of the kilalla to ballina branch, except a fuzzy one of th elifting train

Eiretrains

whisky_galore wrote: »

Deerpark/Wolfhill colleries,

There is a detailed historical and illustrative history of the former branch in the recent IRRS June Journal.

h.gricer

metrovick001 wrote: »

One of the recent IRRS journals had a photo of the RDS sidings taken by the late David Boyle.

Indeed, infact there's a real gem photo of the bridge over the Royal Canal of the North City Mills in this IRRS Journal inside front http://www.irrs.ie/Journal%20181/181%20Journal.htm taken by Leslie Hyland of a J26 Class 0-6-0 btw that Crossley Aclass on the cover departing Bray in June 1969 was taken by late David Boyle.

Regards
h.gricer