Category: Site Updates

I have added a photo and photo gallery for each of the following Cork Stations:

Ballymartle

Bandon

Bandon West Cork

Blarney (Cork & Muskerry)

Castlebernard

Crookstown Road

Donoughmore

Farrangalway

Firmount

Fox’s Bridge

Kilcrea

Kinsale

Knockane

Saint Annes

Tower Bridge

Upton

I have added a photo and photo gallery to the following Cork station pages:

Ballinascarthy

Ballineen

Clonakilty Junction

Courtmacsharry

Desert

Enniskeen

Skeaf

Timoleague

I have added a photo and photo gallery page for the following Cork stations:

Aughaville

Baltimore

Bantry

Bantry Hilltop

Church Cross

Drimoleague Junction

Dunmanway

Durrus Road

Hollyhill

Kilcoe

Knockbue

Madore

Newcourt

Skibbereen

I have updated the Gazetteer for another 3 stations in West Cork, with:

Schull

Woodlands Halt

Ballydehob

getting a photograph and photos added.

Located on the outskirts of Mitchelstown, Brigown siding was a siding and loading bank for military use.

Although not on the current version of the Gazetteer, I have created a page for it.

I have started to update the photos from my recent trips around Ireland. As a result of this:

Horse & Jockey

Farranalean

Laffansbridge

Mitchelstown

Glanworth

Ballindangan

stations have had a primary photo added as well as a photo gallery.

No, I’m not selling shares or looking for money (I develop and maintain this site as a labour of love).

Many years ago, I purchased half a dozen cancelled share certificates of old Irish companies (5 railway and 1 mining) and I have added a section to the site to display these, which can be found here.

I have also made a few small administrative changes, such as automating the copyright date at the foot of each page, which I have updated a few pages with and will be rolling out to all pages as time progresses.

The IH Venues page has also had a refresh, with the links to such locations now in 2 columns, giving a better look. I took the opportunity to check all links were valid and removed a couple that are no longer present.

I hadn’t planned on providing running updates of my progress in creating/uploading photo gallery pages. However, as one of the pages so loaded is that of Clondalkin (demolished as part of the Kildare Route Project), I felt that a blogpost linking to this and noting that counties Carlow, Cavan, Cork and Dublin are now also online was appropriate.

I have finally created and loaded web images for all of my photos of railway stations in Ireland, dating back to the start of the millennium. The next stage, which I have started, is to load a photo gallery page of each station location where I have loaded web images. I am doing this by county and as of today, Antrim, Armagh and Clare are loaded.

However, in some cases, there is no link from a given station page to the photo gallery. The linking of same will be Stage 3 of the process (currently on Stage 2).

Over the next couple of weeks, more photo gallery pages will be added. Those station pages with a pre-existing link to a gallery page will automatically link to the updated page and will give access to more photos of that location, assuming I had taken photos of same previously.

Based on my recent trip to West Cork, where a substantial number of stations have disappeared completely, to the extent that I was not able to get near to where they were, I have added a new default image for those stations where I have not yet had a chance to take a photograph.

The existing image has been replaced with one stating “PHOTO NOT TAKEN YET” and going forward, I will use an image stating “NO PHOTO AVAILABLE” for sites where access is not possible.