HT to the Greystones Guide for this.
Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society will be holding their monthly meeting on Wednesday 16th October 2024 at 7.30pm in the Kilian Family Centre beside Holy Rosary Church in Greystones.
The talk will be given by Rob Goodbody on the subject of Glendasan lead mines and Ballycorus Chimney.
Admission is €3.
I’m in two minds about this one.
The BBC reports that the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society are intending to take Translink to court in a bid to stop the demolition of the Boyne Bridge in Belfast as part of the latter’s plans to develop the area immediately adjacent to the new Grand Central Station.
Whilst part of me sees Translink mimicking CIE’s status as a property development company with the inconvenience of a public transport network attached, I can’t necessarily see that the bridge requires preservation and if it is worthy of preservation, does it absolutely need to be preserved at that location?
The Substation, Dublin Port’s small cultural venue, is hosting an exhibition taking a humourous look at the River Liffey bridges in Dublin City.
Developed by Fergal McCarthy, this exhibition will feature a jumbo version of Fergal’s illustrated portrait of the Liffey and its bridges.
The exhibition runs until early November 2024 apart from 24/25th October.
I was out and about in Dublin recently and spotted a new map on the DART:
What caught my eye was the marking of the Short Hop Zone at its current boundaries of Balbriggan, Kilcock, Sallins & Naas and Kilcoole. These would be the boundaries that the National Transport Authority are proposing to reduce in geographic area, which would require new maps to be produced.
Open House Dublin 2024 takes place between 12th and 20th October 2024. I have reviewed the listing of events and have created a page listing those of IH interest.
Having already opened for bus traffic, it has been reported that Belfast Grand Central Station is due to open for rail traffic on 13th October 2024.
Whilst I haven’t been up in Belfast in the last few months, I have looked at the track layout shown on OpenStreetmap and it looks like Westlink Junction is gone (where the Blythefield Curve joined the line from Central Junction to Great Victoria Street), instead, the line will curve around and run parallel to the Dublin line.
Access to/from the 8 platforms (4 island platforms) will be achieved by a series of crossovers.
Update 14 October 2024. Well, whoever updated OSM got it wrong. There is a junction at Westlink Junction and the necessary crossovers are in place just north of this to facilitate all platform access.
The Dublin Festival of History takes place between 27th September and 13 October 2024.
I have reviewed the listing of events and have created a page listing those events of IH interest.
The Dundalk Argus reports that a commemoration to mark the bi-centenary of Haulbowline Lighthouse will take place in Greenore, Co. Louth, at 15:30 on 22nd September 2024.
Railways brought forth all sorts of social change and innovation, in much the same way that the internet has over the last 25 years.
One such act of entrepeneurship in London saw the creation of the London Necropolis Company, which transported the deceased and their funeral cortege from London to a Brookwood cemetery, some 23 miles south west of London, by train. Primarily using the railway lines of other companies, they did have their own connections at both London and Brookwood.
Continuing in operation until 1941, the company’s former station building at 121 Westminster Bridge Road, London, remains in alternative use. This is the second London station of the company, coming into use in 1902.
The original station was nearby and removed to make way for expansion of the adjacent railway mainline, the Necropolis Railway Company making the London & South Western Railway pay heavily for their relocation.
RTE reports that H&W Group Holdings PLC is to enter into administration, due to the company being insolvent.
As a technicality, the company that is entering administration is the holding company, which holds the shares in the 4 shipyards under its control and the shipyard in Belfast is not entering administration, nor are the other 3 shipyards the company owns.