I have added a page to the IH Wiki for Bleach Green Junction, which is 5 miles north of Belfast on the lines to Derry and Larne Harbour.
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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I have added a page to the IH Wiki for the White Arch in Co. Antrim. This was a bridge carrying a mineral tramway across the Coast Road to a private pier for the export of iron ore.
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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I have added a page to the IH Wiki for Durrow Tunnel in Co. Waterford.
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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I have added a page to the IH Wiki for Randalstown Station in Co. Antrim.
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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Also known as Malahide Viaduct, infamous due to the bridge span collapsing in August 2009.
I have created a page in the IH Wiki for the Broadmeadow Estuary.
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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When the ESB hydro electric station was built east of Macroom in the 1950s, it spelt the end of the line for the railway to Macroom as the flooding of the Lee Valley took in a significant portion of the route of the railway. CIE could have insisted on a new section of railway being built, but then as now, CIE did not want to run railways.
Most infrastructure within the valley was demolished before flooding, however, the railway bridge at Buingea refused to succumb. It remains to this day and can be seen if water levels in the reservoir are not too high. I have added a page for Buingea Bridge to the IH Wiki.
Below is a link to Google Street View taken from the spot where the route of the railway is crossed by the replacement road. Zoom into the centre of the photo and the bridge can be seen.
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 has William Smith O'Brien got to do with IH you ask? It is tenuous, but interesting nonetheless. Smith O'Brien, wanted for his part in the failed 1848 rebellion, was arrested after being identified by an English railway guard at Thurles Station. With his reward, the latter resigned and moved back to England where it is reputed he bought a pub and died shortly afterwards, having become his own best customer.
In today's Irish Examiner, Terry Prone reveals that Smith O'Brien was engaging in sexual contact with a 12 year old, an act legal at the time, but not so by today's standards.
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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Many years ago, I researched the remains of the above line in Co. Wicklow for the NAMHO conference held in Ireland. One of my discoveries was the physical remains of where this tramway had passed under the later mainline railway north of Arklow in order to allow it to access the harbour in Arklow.
Lest this be lost again to posterity, here is a link to the OSI Mapviewer with the skewed bridge under the railway clearly marked in the centre of the map.
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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This was a private platform on the Dublin and South Eastern Railway line. Aware of its existence, I was unaware of its former location. Courtesy of the OSI Mapviewer, I located it. All trace will have been obliterated as it is where the NET sidings at Shelton Abbey (also since obliterated) were.
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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I have added a new feature to the site. I have established another WordPress database for an "On this day" feature. This will be populated with historic information of significant events in Ireland's industrial heritage history.
On the right of the page, there will be a widget that will display events that occured on this day in the past. There is also a date select option which will bring you to any specific date.
This is a work in progress and will be added to in time.
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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