RTE’s 100 Buildings series has an article about the Carroll’s tobacco factory in Dundalk.
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ESB Design/DUTC Flying Snail
RTE are running a series – 100 Buildings – which is a look at 100 features in Irish structures.
One of these articles looks at the building of electricity substations as part of the electrification of Ireland that followed the commissioning of the Ardnacrusha power station.
An interesting fact therein is that the ESB in house designer who produced the early ESB logo, which was a wave and thunderbolt design that can still be seen on some structures around the country, also worked as a freelancer and in this capacity, designed the flying snail logo for the Dublin United Tramway Company (which was retained by CIE upon its creation in 1945).
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Train hits plane in L.A.
Trains hitting road vehicles on the line is, unfortunately, not uncommon, especially at level crossings.
RTE reports on an incident involving a light aircraft crash landing onto a railway line in Los Angeles in the USA and being hit by a train shortly afterwards.
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Grand Canal towpath closure notice
Waterways Ireland have advised a 4 week closure of the towpath between Lock 12 and Hazelhatch on the Grand Canal, to facilitate site investigation works in conjunction with the proposed greenway extension from Lock 12 to Hazelhatch.
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Suitable for the South Wexford line
This could work on the South Wexford line, except that the national transport company in Ireland regards its primary purpose as property development and not public transport provision.
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Inchicore Works
Irish Rail have released a promotional video about Inchicore Works in Dublin in this, its 175th year.
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The wrong decision
Transport Infrastructure Ireland has announced “Stage 1” funding for a greenway from Greystones to Wicklow along the coast (a location shared by the railway line from Greystones to Wicklow).
In an era when other arms of the State are screaming “climate change” and promising sea level rises, why is the State paying for infrastructure that another arm of the State maintains will be under water in the mid term future?
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Industrial heritage monuments
I have added a page to the site, which is a WIP, being a list of industrial heritage monuments in Ireland.
I have defined these as memorials, plaques, graves and bridges named after a specific person.
Longer term, each of these will be added to the Gazetteer and linked off the relevant map.
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A look back at the Guinness Brewery
DublinLive.ie has a feature looking at the Guinness Brewery in the 1950s, including images of the building that is now the Storehouse.
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Ballinamore Junction project
The former railway station in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, was used as a secondary school for many years but ceased to have this function a long time ago as a purpose built school replaced it.
Shannonside are reporting that construction work on redeveloping the complex, to be used as community facilities, has commenced. These will see the complex used as a Digital Hub/Enterprise Centre, Arts Space, Youth Facility, Genealogy/Family Research Centre, Trail Head for the Cavan‐Leitrim Greenway and hard and soft landscaping of the attendant grounds as public open space.