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Pretty girl, pity about the light shade.

A wet evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh The birds sang in the wet trees And I listened to them it was a hundred years from now And I was dead and someone else was listening to them. But I was glad I had recorded for him The melancholy.

31 August 1959 was a Monday . . .

The 1925 concrete roundhouse has survived. In 2008 via tarboat And earlier, in 1954 via Ernies Railway Archive

GoogleGlimpse - goo.gl/maps/1PQ91Gr7UTjJ8PBT7

In 1852 it was foreseen that the junction at Clones would enable not great things in stimulating trade and industry not only in the areas crossed by the lines and the regions linked by the lines but also bring great prosperity to Belfast (and everyone would live happily ever after). At any rate, that was the opinion of Belfast News-Letter onWednesday 15 December 1852

That these designs will be realised we have not the slightest doubt when we consider what sort of link "The Belfast and West of Ireland Junction Railway" will really form in the great iron net-work of the North. At Clones, it will catch the traffic brought down by the Derry and Enniskillen line in one direction, and by the Sligo and Enniskillen extension in another. At the same point it will receive nutrition from another great " feeder," which will undoubtedly be in operation before long - we allude to the branch of the Great Midland from Mullingar to Cavan, and thence extended to Clones ; whilst along its entire length it will collect the traffic now in a state of rapid development throughout that considerable and fertile district which trends South-west from Armagh. To this hitherto unopened, or very imperfectly opened, region, it will impart a stimulus to manufacture and agriculture which will speedily enable it to rival the most favoured portions of the North-east; and whilst the line will have this beneficial effect on the country it traverses, it will throw the whole industrial result into Belfast, and thus materially add to the opulence, influence, and greatness of the Northern capital.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163658463# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 21st August, 1907...in a pictorial feature article on an interstate ploughing carnival which was held at Coolamon, in Southern NSW (see pic middle top row)...