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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?

"The Gateway to Health and Happines" according to this 1940 booklet - www.lucannewsletter.ie/history/spahotel.html Those characters look like they are 'bunburying' !

shooting from a low lit tunnel, into the light and getting all exposures through the photo balanced and visible is always a challenge and here it has been mastered excellently

From a perusal of the 25" OSI Map, (which doesn't seem to want to save), we're somewhere around where this Streetview is.

You didn't actually have to go there to enjoy the benefits of the waters
(Saunders's News-Letter - Wednesday 05 May 1773)

'Jaunty' spotted at the spa! Might drag us back to the early 1890s? - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000326239

What a very elegant bridge. From wikipedia - "... The bridge is the largest single span masonry arch bridge in Ireland, and is constructed from ashlar masonry with a span of 33 metres (110 feet) and a rise of 6.7 metres (22 feet). It is framed by iron balustraded parapets made by the Royal Phoenix ironworks of Parkgate Street in Dublin. Designed by George Knowles (architect of Dublin's Fr. Mathew and O'Donovan Rossa Bridges), it was built in 1814 in collaboration with James Savage to replace several previous bridges which were carried away by floods ... " See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan_Bridge And - www.bridgesofdublin.ie/bridges/lucan-bridge/history

Looks like he took many railway photos that day. Note "salmon pass" in weir on right.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Looking a bit vegetated in 2019 via Peter Kappel Pictures

beachcomber australia The wikipedia article mentions a bridge washed away in 1786. On 13th May of that year Saunder's News-letter announced "Lucan Bridge is now open for carriages, being completed in a moft permanent manner, at the fole expence of Capt. Geo. Vesey". It's not clear whether this was to replace a bridge washed away earlier in the year, or whether it was to be washed away later in the year. Edit: The latter, because despite being "moft permanent" in 1786, in August 1787, in announcing plans for yet another "elegant new bridge", the same paper said: "paffengers who travel the low road are extremely terrified at paffing over the prefent ruinated one in carriages"

John Spooner I sense a new Flickr catchphrase coming on – moft permanent

The maker of Brand's Meat Juice is probably better known for A1 sauce.

letslookagain.com/2014/10/who-were-brand-co/

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.1._Sauce

And this on John Oakey and his knife polish.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oakey_(inventor)

Mike Grimes Thanks Mike

I think the location may well be the Electric Railway depot (now a Dublin bus depot) opposite Park Gate, Dublin. What do you think?

Google Street View

The wall and chimney in the background would suggest the tram was turning into the Cunningham Rd tram yard.
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