Stamps

topnotch

New series of stamps featuring Irish stations due to be released.
http://www.thejournal.ie/new-stamp-train-station-3505722-Jul2017/

end of the road

only 1 station from the connolly routes gets featured. surely there must be a couple more deserving candidates?
they don't feature both dublin termini.
i've never been to bagenalstown, anything special about that station?
at least dundalk has something that makes it deserving. 1 of a very small few that do tbh.

Jamie2k9

How could they give them pictures with the front ends on the 22000 looking like that.

Fred Swanson

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dublinman1990

My mam is going to get this set of stamps for me in Dublin's GPO today.

If anyone is going to get them there. The GPO is open until 6pm this evening.

whisky_galore

end of the road wrote: »

i've never been to bagenalstown, anything special about that station?

Architecture obviously.

tabbey

whisky_galore wrote: »

Architecture obviously.

Archiseek state it was designed by Sancton Wood who designed Kingsbridge (Heuston) and Inchicore, however I am not so sure.

The other Victorian Gothic stations as far as Carlow and Goolds Cross, often attributed to Wood, were in fact designed by other architects, and Bagenalstown is so unique, that I doubt if it was Wood.

Another architect mentioned in relation to Bagenalstown, is William Deane Butler, I think this is more likely.

Whoever it was, Bagenalstown station is a little gem. Go and experience it.

h.gricer

I was disappointed a ''freight yard'' didn't featured, but then they are a thing of the past, the stamps are probably looking forward:pac:
Regards
hg