Whilst searching the ‘net last night for something else, I came upon this site, which is a brief history of the railway in Clones.
Interestingly, the page includes a very well designed diagrammatic map of the former station, which can be downloaded at no charge.
I am pleased to report that the infamous Hell’s Kitchen Bar and Railway Museum in Castlerea is to reopen.
Closed in 2011, the bar has reopened for both food and drinks and access to the railwayana therein (including A Class Locomotive No. 055).
Open House Dublin 2023 takes place between 7th and 15th October 2023. I have compiled a list of events with an IH connection.
In addition to events at specific sites, there are a number of film clips of other venues on the OHD site and three of these are relevant:
The above titled event takes place on 27th September 2023 in the Linen Hall in Belfast. The event is free, but booking is required.
The Dublin Festival of History runs from 25th September to 15th October 2023 and has many events of an IH nature.
I have created a page to list these.
The Clonsilla and Porterstown Heritage Society are organising the Clonsilla Heritage Festival on 16th/17th September 2023 and a couple of the events are of an IH nature as follows:
Clonsilla & Royal Canal Heritage Walk – 16th September 2023
The Royal Canal / Shackleton’s Mill, plus Royal Canal Photo Exhibition – 16th September 2023
I have created a page listing the Northern Ireland Heritage Days events with an IH connection.
I previously reported that the Naomh Éanna, located in one of the dry docks at Grand Canal Dock, had listed and called for the necessary action to have the boat removed.
RTE reports that the process of having the boat cut up has now commenced.
I previously reported on an act of heritage vandalism by National Highways (the roads agency in Great Britain), which buried a former railway bridge in Cumbria in concrete ‘to protect it’.
The Guardian reports that the local council have refused retrospective planning permission for the action, notwithstanding the offer of a bribe by NH in the amount of £450,000 to allow their work to remain.
Work has commenced on the un-burying of the bridge.
On Wednesday 16th August, I will be doing an interesting test of the new Busconnects option in North East Kildare to get home from a Heritage Week event in Sallins.
The plan is to get the train from Sallins to Hazelhatch (2005 ex Sallins) followed by the W61 from Hazlehatch to Maynooth. It will be an interesting test of whether or not the connectivity works.