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As noted below, I have added my photos of the Burma Road (Claremorris to Collooney) to my photo gallery ( see links to pages on the right).

I have mountains of paid for webspace that I am not using and would be happy to accept relevant images for hosting at no cost on my paid for webspace. I will also include a copyright message on each photo (Copyright Joe Bloggs - All Rights Reserved).

I am particularly interested in photos taken at the level crossings. I have been taking photographs of the lineside houses as crossing cottages. However, it is likely that most of these that are lived in have been altered if not demolished and replace. Original photos would determine this quickly.

Please contact me if you have images that you would like to see on this site.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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Photographs taken in 2003 up to and including Tubbercurry are now online. See the link at the bottom of the list on the right.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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My article on the Burma Road has now reached a milestone with all of my photos taken in 2003 of the line as far as up to and including Charlestown now online.

Next step is to add the photos from Charlestown to Collooney.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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What a sad sight to see Greenore as it stands today. Greenore was the port terminus of the Dundalk Newry & Greenore Railway with lines from Dundalk and Newry converging on the town. The railway was owned by the London & North Western Railway and due to being a cross border railway in 1925/1926 was left out of the amalgamation of railways in the Irish Free State into GSR.

The railway has been described as a piece of the L&NWR transposed into the Cooley peninsula - the DN&GR retaining L&NWR signalling/livery/engines (albeit to Irish gauge) up to closure in 1951 despite the absorption of the L&NWR into the Big 4 in Britain some 30 years previously.

A couple of years ago I was employed as the Financial Accountant of the Council of Ireland of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (for the uninitiated, the SVP is a charitable organisation dedicated to relief of poverty) and one Monday morning my assistant happened to remark to me that she had been in Greenore at the weekend and thought that it looked like an English town.

Funny that, was my response as the town was built by the DN&GR for its employees and remained a railway owned town up until the closure of the railway after which Louth County Council took it in charge. The architectural style is like that of an English village. I didn't see a village green with cricket being played but that is the only omission.

Anyway, I digress. Back to the main point. The road entrance to Greenore port is padlocked - I don't know what level of services leave the port. I was there on Saturday afternoon and the only shop cum post office was closed. The former pub was closed and up for sale. Only the water tower at the railway station remains - all other features including the former railway hotel have been demolished.

A sorry end to this little piece of the L&NWR in Ireland.

As an afterthought, perhaps the two Governments, instead of building a road bridge across Carlingford Lough, would considers a Public Service Obligation funded ferry service from Greenore to a point on the NI side of Carlingford Lough.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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