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Needs more cats: s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/43/78/2437832_aa21bc07.jpg

I like the brickwork in the chimneys on the LHS. Yet another Bovril sign, several of your pictures have them.

derangedlemur Love the "companion" photo not much changed with the station.

Photo taken from the footbridge maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716117,771371,7,9 Google Street View maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Laytown,+Meath,+Ireland&hl=e...

blackpoolbeach Interesting. So those are the denizens of Julianstown and points north.

Farranfore to Valentia Harbour railway in service from 1893 till 1960. It was the most Western railway in Europe.

Pechristener Thanks for the dating info, I've changed the date on this one too! We'll have to start paying you commission - finder's fee for dates...

This is a Railway buffs dream, fantastic shot. I'd imagine it was a nightmare coming back up again?

This is the Great Southern & Western inspection car. It was travelling out the Valentia line as it had just been opened, as noted in 1893. The cutting and soil as you can see is still fresh from the construction.

Drung hill was a notable section on this line in having 3 short tunnels in quick succession sitting high on a narrow ledge 270ft over the south shore of Dingle bay and just above the road to Cahirciveen. The line was built under the Light Railway Act of 1889, but it could hardly be called so as it’s costly building (£8,800 a mile) required many sections of heavy engineering, like around distant Drung Hill above. Ironically this part of the line mirrored the northern part of the famous "Ring of Kerry tourist route which gets clogged with large slow moving buses in high season, the railway closing in 1960 just before the age of mass transatlantic tourist travel that might have helped prolonged it's potential. Here's a what remains of the tunnels around the hill, still set above the road for the keen eyed! www.flickr.com/photos/2cme/4953606423/in/set-721576227747... www.flickr.com/photos/2cme/4095848764/in/set-721576227747...

Those open-sided carriages were known in Sydney as "toast racks" - same in Ireland ?

The GeoHive OSI 25" labels this the Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway. In Wikipedia, it says the steam tram ran from 1880 to 1897, and then electrically until 1925.

Niall McAuley From where this was taken the OSI shows the tracks on this side of the road?

I could be persuaded that I see this bank building from 1890.

O Mac Maybe they moved the tracks on electrification?

BCI 239 ? (I can't find my glasses!) 28 October 1968 was a Monday ... 28 October 1967 was a Saturday ...

The internet is sometimes AMAZING!
"beetle.ie - Ireland’s first ever census on classic Irish aircooled VWs" - beetle.ie/vehicle/bci-239/

beachcomber australia Incredible! The O'Dea shot is listed as Athy in the catalogue, that Beetle page says: It was parked at the side of a garage in Monastervin, County Kildare. in the mid 80s, 20 years later, just 20km up the road.

The Streetview shows that the layout at Athy is very simple now, just twin tracks straight through, but on the 25" it was more complex, with Cattle pens West of the line and track to the Goods shed at left/East. There was a section with buffers behind the surviving water tank. I think that is where the Bowater carriage was pictured, given the points in the foreground.

beachcomber australia Niall McAuley Incredible is right!!