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Ciarán Cooney I Photographic Archivist 📸 🎞 Irish Railway Record Society 🚂| 📩
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CIÉ locomotive 076 takes the IÉ PWD Sperry train around Killiney Hill, Co. Dublin, en-route to North Wall, October 2018.
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#Killiney
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Taylorstown Viaduct, Co. Wexford, with CIÉ loco 077 on the Irish Rail weed spray-train, May 2017. Different brick shades indicate the rebuilt arches post-1923.
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#taylorstown
#wexford
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Mémoire de trains
3 months ago
Today view of the
#Taylorstown
Viaduct. Built 1904-6 opened 1906. Damaged 1922 reconstructed 1923. Erected by Sir Robert McAlpine and Company of Glasgow as an important component of south County Wexford development through the connections with the Fishguard and Rosslare Railway (FRR) line.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Taylorstown Viaduct, Co. Wexford, recording the destruction of the arches during the Irish Civil War, c1923.
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#irishrailarchives
[Photo © IRRS Archive /
www.irrs.ie]
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Ireland's smallast signal cabin, Kellystown, Co. Louth (Great Northern Railway; Drogheda-Dundalk section), pictured 1969.
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[Photo © IRRS Archive /
www.irrs.ie]
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Irish Railway photos I've digitised recently; featuring 1960s/70s/80s scenes from Dublin and Belfast accessible via IRRS Archive @
irrs.ie/membership/
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May 1971 @ Inchicore running shed as re-engined CIÉ loco B210 is shunted by Maybach-engine B233. [Digitised 35mm-negative recenly received by the IRRS Archive]
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Locomotive shed @ Athboy terminus (Midland Great Western Railway), Co. Meath, pictured 1953 / 2013. [Photo © IRRS Archive /
www.irrs.ie]
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Another CIÉ "SuperTrain" publicity booklet, featuring the new AC MkII carriages and A Class locomotive in the Avoca Valley, Co. Wicklow, circa 1973.
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Amiens St. (aka Connolly Station) with neon Great Northern Railway lights (GNR); pictured during the 1953 'An Tostal' festival.
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#irishrail
#ConnollyStation
#amiensstreet
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OldRailwayAccidents
3 months ago
Looking forward to Saturday & the 1st public outing for our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project exhibition! We'll be displaying it at the
#Hampshire
Genealogical Society's conference day at Wickham - come along!
#FamilyHistory
#LocalHistory
www.hgs-familyhistory.com/2025/08/hgs-...
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araireland
3 months ago
This month’s Explore Your Archive theme is
#EYAEducation
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CIÉ Metrovick loco A42R departing Portlaoise with laden-beet for Thurles Sugar Factory, November 1969. [Photo © IRRS Archive]
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#CIÉ
#portlaoise
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'Enterprise' DVT 9003 leading the 16:00 Belfast-Dublin past Harmonstown, Aug 2025.
#Enterprise
#irishrailways
@irishrail @translinkni
#Harmonstown
#rainbow
#Dublin
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'Enterprise' trains @ Killester and Raheny on the Dublin-Belfast main line, Aug 2025.
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#Enterprise
#Killester
#Raheny
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CIÉ loco 072 with new intercity carriages @ Alexandra Road, Dublin Port, Sept 2022.
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#irishrail
#dublinport
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Irish Rail retro loco 220 "River Blackwater" passing Newbridge Ballast Pit with a Dublin-Cork train, Aug 2025.
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#irishrailways
#newbridge
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CIÉ locomotive 080 new @ Dublin Port, Sept 1976 ; and PWD duties @ Wexford, Aug 2025.
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#irishrailways
#CIÉ
#DublinPort
#Wexford
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CIÉ "SuperTrain" publicity poster for the new Mk2 carriages, pictured @ Killiney, Co. Dublin, circa 1973.
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#irishrailways
#killiney
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Rosslare Harbour locomotive shed at Ballygeary, Co. Wexford; CIÉ locos B141, C215 and B122, pictured by G.R Mahon in May 1964. [Photo © IRRS Archive]
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8337 with "DART-25" logo enters Howth Junction, Dublin, January 2011.
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#DART
#Sutton
#HowthJunction
#Dublin
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4 months ago
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CIÉ loco 073 in Irish Rail 'retro' livery passing Ossory Road, Dublin, bound for Wexford with PWD ballast-train, May 2025.
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#dublin
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CIÉ DART 8101 'on test' @ Howth Junction, Dublin, Jan 1984; and 40-years later departing Sutton, July 2024. [Photo ©
www.irrs.ie
]
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#DART
#Sutton
#HowthJunction
#Dublin
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CIÉ retro-livery locomotive 071 leads the morning Tara Mines to Dublin Port laden ore train past Balbriggan, Feb 2022.
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#balbriggan
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IÉ locos 077 and 082 working Navan-Dublin Port laden Tara Mines train @ Malahide 🎥 July 2022.
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#Malahide
#TaraMines
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Railway Architecture
4 months ago
175 Years of Navan Railway, free exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre Navan 20th-24th August for Heritage Week. I curated this with Navan & District Historical Society. There'll be photos and original drawings on display. Book your free place for launch & lecture
solsticeartscentre.ie/event/175-ye...
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Sunday excursion from Dublin City on the Dublin & Lucan Tramway, pictured @ Dodsboro, c.1900. [Photo IRRS Archive]
#Lucan
#tramway
#trams
#archives
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IÉ retro locomotive 073 powers away from Clontarf on the last leg of its journey from Tara Mines to Dublin Port. May 2020
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#clontarf
#taramines
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CIÉ loco 171 (built 1962 by General Motors) departs Dublin Connolly with RPSI heritage set 🎬🎥 July 2010.
#irishrailways
#CIÉ
#RPSI
#dublinconnolly
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Past & present restoration pictures; bridge @ Castletown (Mullingar-Athlone Old Rail Trail).
#castletown
#irishrailways
#oldrailtrail
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Past & present restoration pictures; Moate Station waiting shelter (Mullingar-Athlone Old Rail Trail).
#Moate
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#oldrailtrail
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After a brief but heavy shower, Irish Rail 'retro' locomotive 073 shunts Tara Mines wagons @ Dublin Port.
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Past & present restoration pictures; Castletown signal cabin (Mullingar-Athlone Old Rail Trail).
#Castletown
#irishrailways
#oldrailtrail
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Past & present restoration pictures; Moate Station (Mullingar-Athlone Old Rail Trail).
#Moate
#irishrailways
#oldrailtrail
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One of my favourite past & present restoration pictures; Moate Station waiting shelter (Mullingar-Athlone Old Rail Trail).
#Moate
#irishrailways
#oldrailtrail
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Dublin & South Eastern Railway loco No. 461 (built 1921) on the curves near Blakestown, Leixlip, working a RPSI steam trial-train from Maynooth.
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#Leixlip
#RPSI
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5 months ago
This month’s
#ExploreYourArchive
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#CuardaighDoChartlann
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#EYANature
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#EYADúlra
& we want to see all your archives relating to this theme! Don’t forget to 🏷️
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CIÉ track-lifting operations on the North Wexford Railway, between Sparrowland/Macmine Junction; 8mm-film from Tony Price/IRRS Archive.
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One from the archives for 'International Level Crossing Awareness Day'; Cavan & Leitrim Railway when the Arigna train struck a car at Mahanagh Crossing, June 1953.
#ILCAD
#irishrail
#archives
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How many changes can you spot @ North Wall, Dublin? (1959 Vs. 2015). IRRS Archive photo Vs my picture.
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#irishrailways
#NorthWall
#Dublin
#PastPresent
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Translink's (NIR) rainbow train crossing the bridge @ Clontarf Road, Dublin, June 2020.
#rainbow🌈
#irishrailways
#Clontarf
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RPSI "Midlander"steam tour to Maynooth with Great Northern Railway loco No. 131 passing Reily's Bridge, Cabra.
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#RPSI
#steamtrain
#Cabra
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Mallow-Waterford railway scenery; filmed by the late Tony Price prior to closure, March 1967. 🚊🎥 [©IRRS Archive]
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#Mallow
#Waterford
#irishrailways
#archives
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Archive film compiled by Tony Price of the Western Rail Corridor during the mid-1970s, which I have digitised/edited from the IRRS Archive @
youtu.be/K5hZqQKBfjA?...
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'Columbo' the signalman's dog @ Ardrahan Station, Co. Galway, filmed March 1976 by Tony Price/IRRS Archive.
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#ardrahan
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IÉ locomotive 220 looking superb in its 1990s retro Irish Rail orange-livery on RPSI "Seabreeze" special.
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#RPSI
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RPSI locomotives Nos. 171 (GNR 'Slieve Gullion') and No. 4 (NCC) pictured working hard on the climb to Rathpeacon, Co. Cork, on the 'Brian Boru Railtour', April 1969. [35mm kodachrome slide © C.J Gammell/IRRS Archive]
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Great Northern Railway 4-4-0 steam locomotives Nos. 171 & 131 pictured on RPSI workings on the Maynooth line today.
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No. 170 "Errigal" in Great Northern Railway sky-blue livery @ Amiens St Station, Dublin, May 1961. [© IRRS Archive]
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Cavan & Leitrim narrow-gauge railway of CIÉ closed
#onthisday
66 years ago on 31st March 1959; pictured @ Drumshanbo. [Photo © IRRS Archive]
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