{"id":599,"date":"2022-04-26T19:45:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2022-04-30T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T11:02:37","slug":"connolly-station-locomotive-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/26\/connolly-station-locomotive-shed\/","title":{"rendered":"Connolly Station locomotive shed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The locomotive shed at Connolly Station in Dublin is closed and out of use &#8211; ceasing to be used as a locomotive shed on 31st December 2010. The photo below shows the shed in 1992 &#8211; Irish Rail had been in existence for 5 years at this stage, but the CIE logo is still in situ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"679\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/geograph-3245712-by-The-Carlisle-Kid.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/geograph-3245712-by-The-Carlisle-Kid.jpg 957w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/geograph-3245712-by-The-Carlisle-Kid-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/geograph-3245712-by-The-Carlisle-Kid-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Passing by the shed today on board a train departing from Platform 2, Connolly Station, I noticed what looked like an historic coat of arms in the space where the CIE logo is in the photo above. Not having had a good look at it, I am wondering is it the GNR(I) coat of arms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another possibility is that the shed is being used as a film location and another railway company coat of arms was placed therein for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The locomotive shed at Connolly Station in Dublin is closed and out of use &#8211; ceasing to be used as a locomotive shed on 31st December 2010. The photo below shows the shed in 1992 &#8211; Irish Rail had been in existence for 5 years at this stage, but the CIE logo is still in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}