Bord na Mona Rail Network, Maps?

Joeseph Balls

Hi Folks,

I'm wondering was there ever maps with the Bord Na Mona railways marked on them?

I've searched online with no success.

Quite a few run around my area and would like to see how they connect and where they run.

Google maps is quite difficult to follow them on...

Thanks.

L1011

The network was always changing depending on which bogs were being extracted - only the core networks approaching powerplants, briquette factories or other nodes (whatever they do for peat moss for instance) would have had permanent rail

Del.Monte

From memory this publication: https://www.platform5.com/Catalogue/Maps-Atlases-Track-Diagrams/Rail-Atlas-Great-Britain-Ireland-15th-Edition-ORAGBI15 has all the Bord na Mona main lines and depots indicated but only the main lines.

BingCrosbee

I have maps with all the BNM railways on them because I worked on a lot of them and set out a lot of them over 40 years.

BingCrosbee

All BNM railways were permanent except for temporary line that was laid to collect milled peat stockpiles for the Power Station/Briquette Factory or Moss Peat Factory. It was all 3 foot gauge except for Kilberry Works which initially was 2 foot gauge and eventually switched over to 3 foot. Some of the old West Clare railway carriages are lying about Derrygreenagh Works.

tabbey

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Hi Folks,

I'm wondering was there ever maps with the Bord Na Mona railways marked on them?

Thanks.

Johnson's Atlas & gazetteer of the Railways of Ireland, compiled by Stephen Johnson and published 1997 by Midland publishing, shows bord na Mona networks across the country.
Ordnance survey maps show the main lines of Bord na Mona. If you don't already have a discovery (1 to 50,000 scale) map of your area, shops should be open soon.

random_guy

Openrailwaymap.org has a good few of them on it if it's just for checking routes etc.

kc56

They are visible on openstreetmaps.org.

For example this https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/53.2922/-7.0841 shown the tracks around Edenderry power station and adjacent bogs