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  • Dunboyne Rail Station

    Dunboyne Rail Station

    27/09/2022
    Dunboyne Rail Station serves Dunboyne in County Meath. The original Dunboyne station opened in August 1862 on the Clonsilla-Navan railway line, ...
  • Rosslare Europort Rail Station

    Rosslare Europort Rail Station

    27/09/2022
    Rosslare Europort railway station serves Rosslare Harbour in County Wexford and is the southern terminus for the Dublin-Rosslare railway line. ...
  • Plunkett Train Station

    Plunkett Train Station

    27/09/2022
    The station opened on 26 August 1864 as Waterford North. It was renamed Plunkett on 10 April 1966 in commemoration ...
  • Killarney Train Station

    Killarney Train Station

    27/09/2022
    The Killarney railway station opened in on 15 July 1853 on the Mallow to Tralee line.
  • Drumsna Bridge, Drumsna, Leitrim

    Drumsna Bridge, Drumsna, Leitrim

    27/09/2022
    This seven-arch limestone road bridge with full-height cutwaters which spans the River Shannon was built c.1840.
  • Castleconnell Railway Station, Coolreiry

    Castleconnell Railway Station, Coolreiry

    27/09/2022
    Castleconnell Railway Station County Limerick opened on 28th August 1858.
  • Suir Bridge, Caherabbey Upper

    Suir Bridge, Caherabbey Upper

    27/09/2022
    The Suir Bridge is a triple-span railway viaduct over the River Suir on the railway line between Limerick and Rosslare ...
  • Adamstown Rail Station

    Adamstown Rail Station

    27/09/2022
    Adamstown Rail Station opened on 10 April 2007. It is just south of the old Lucan South station which closed ...
  • Borris Viaduct

    Borris Viaduct

    26/09/2022
    Borris viaduct County Carlow is a sixteen-arch limestone built former railway viaduct, c. 1860. Now closed. Designed by Irish civil ...
  • Boyne Viaduct

    Boyne Viaduct

    26/09/2022
    The Boyne Viaduct is a 30m high railway bridge that crosses the River Boyne in Drogheda, carrying the main Dublin ...
  • Broombridge Rail Station

    Broombridge Rail Station

    26/09/2022
    Broombridge Rail station is situated beside the LUAS stop in Cabra West, Dublin 7. It lies in the southern bank ...
  • Ceannt Station, Galway

    Ceannt Station, Galway

    26/09/2022
    Ceannt Station was built in 1851 to the designs of J.S Mulvany. It is sited just off Eyre Street and ...
  • Colbert Station

    Colbert Station

    26/09/2022
    Colbert Railway Station building itself was opened in 1857 on the Great Southern & Western Railway (GS&WR) replacing an earlier, ...
  • Dromod Station

    Dromod Station

    26/09/2022
    Dromod station was opened in 1887 and ceased passenger operation in 1959. The narrow gauge railway line, in full working ...
  • Dublin Broadstone

    Dublin Broadstone

    26/09/2022
    Broadstone was operational from 1847. It was constructed as the Dublin terminus of the Midland & Great Western Railway, which ...
  • Dún Laoghaire (Mallin) Railway Station

    Dún Laoghaire (Mallin) Railway Station

    26/09/2022
    The original station for Dún Laoghaire, then known as Kingstown, was situated some 0.8km closer to Dublin at the West ...
  • Engine no.36

    Engine no.36

    26/09/2022
    Engine No.36’ is not only an old steam locomotive but is also the oldest on display indoors in Ireland. It ...
  • Haggerty's Bridge, Kilcoltrim, Co. Carlow

    Haggerty's Bridge, Kilcoltrim, Co. Carlow

    26/09/2022
    Haggerty’s Bridge at Kilcoltrim is a single-arch hump-back road bridge over railway, built 1862, with rusticated voussoirs, cut stone stringcourses ...
  • Muine Bheag Railway Station

    Muine Bheag Railway Station

    26/09/2022
  • Marley or Knockduff Bridge

    Marley or Knockduff Bridge

    26/09/2022
    Single-arch granite ashlar road bridge over railway line, c. 1865, with cut stone dressings including rusticated voussoirs. Renovated with one ...
  • Heuston Station

    Heuston Station

    26/09/2022
    Heuston Station (formerly Kingsbridge Station until 1966) is one of Ireland’s most recognisable rail stations named after Seán Houston, one ...
  • Kent Station

    Kent Station

    26/09/2022
    Kent Station is one of Ireland’s major railway stations. The station was originally called Glanmire Road Station, but was renamed ...
  • Lansdowne Road Celebrates 150 years

    Lansdowne Road Celebrates 150 years

    26/09/2022
    Lansdowne & Ball’s Bridge station was opened 150 years ago on 1 July 1870 by the Dublin Wicklow & Wexford ...
  • Shannon Hydro-electric Scheme

    Shannon Hydro-electric Scheme

    26/09/2022
    This line was built to transport materials and for earthworks in connection with the building of the Shannon Hydro-electric Power ...
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