{"id":876,"date":"2022-11-12T22:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T22:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2022-11-12T23:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T23:17:33","slug":"clonsilla-locomotive-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/clonsilla-locomotive-shed\/","title":{"rendered":"Clonsilla Locomotive Shed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1862, the Dublin &amp; Meath Railway opened their line from Clonsilla, Co. Dublin to Navan, Co. Meath &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Gazetteer\/Maps\/20000%20Navan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their station in the latter being located to the south of the railway from Navan to Oldcastle<\/a>, which was a separate company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Dublin end of the line (Clonsilla), the company had their own locomotive shed, located in the apex of their line and the MGWR mainline to Galway\/Sligo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This building was later converted for use as accommodation for railway staff, but has been derelict for decades and overgrown with plant life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When out volunteer litter picking on the Royal Canal today, I noticed that the side of the building facing the modern era M3 Parkway branch has been cleared of vegetation, exposing it to public view once more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Clonsilla-Loco-shed-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Former Dubllin  &amp; Meath Railway Locomotive Shed, Clonsilla, Co. Dublin\" class=\"wp-image-877\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Clonsilla-Loco-shed-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Clonsilla-Loco-shed-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Clonsilla-Loco-shed-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Clonsilla-Loco-shed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Clonsilla-Loco-shed-1200x900.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Clonsilla-Loco-shed-1980x1485.jpg 1980w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Clonsilla-Loco-shed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Former Dubllin  &amp; Meath Railway Locomotive Shed, Clonsilla, Co. Dublin. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that this is not a prelude to demolition of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1862, the Dublin &amp; Meath Railway opened their line from Clonsilla, Co. Dublin to Navan, Co. Meath &#8211; their station in the latter being located to the south of the railway from Navan to Oldcastle, which was a separate company. At the Dublin end of the line (Clonsilla), the company had their own locomotive [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}