{"id":594,"date":"2022-04-20T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2022-11-02T23:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T23:02:28","slug":"inny-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/inny-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Inny Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Located on the Dublin &#8211; Sligo railway line between Multyfarnham and Edgeworthstown, Inny Junction was a passenger transfer point only &#8211; i.e. you couldn&#8217;t buy a ticket to Inny Junction &#8211; to allow for transfer to the Cavan branch of the MGWR. Opened in 1856, it closed in 1931, when the transfer point moved to Mullingar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is the Googlemaps aerial view for the junction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m12!1m3!1d6119.99442124024!2d-7.444616343441912!3d53.66010447300868!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sie!4v1650453115366!5m2!1sen!2sie\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The junction point can be seen below mid centre in the image. However, what is interesting is the double line of trees just above this, now with a roadway immediately to the north. Such a feature is usually a dead give away of a former railway &#8211; however, clearly this is not the route of the railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the 25&#8243; ordnance survey map online (not possible to embed), I note that the field boundaries are marked separately for the areas occupied by this feature, which would suggest a formal separation of this land area and not an accidental development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was the track at Inny Junction re-routed and if so, why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located on the Dublin &#8211; Sligo railway line between Multyfarnham and Edgeworthstown, Inny Junction was a passenger transfer point only &#8211; i.e. you couldn&#8217;t buy a ticket to Inny Junction &#8211; to allow for transfer to the Cavan branch of the MGWR. Opened in 1856, it closed in 1931, when the transfer point moved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}