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Eee! There be t' rubble at t' mill ! 5 October 1961 was a Thursday ...

View from Jones Road looking West? Streetview Looks like it, that is Clonliffe Flour Mills at right per the 25" map. Binn's Bridge in the distance. The Flour mills are there on the 1930s Cassini map too. That site is now the Croke Park hotel, Croke Park itself is behind the cameraman to our right.

I think that is the Royal Canal from the bridge at Russell St / Jones's Rd just beside Croke Park.

Collen are still going: www.collen.com/Home.aspx

IIRC, we heard of them before in Killarney. Yes, they built this house in the 1870s:

Clonliffe Flour Mill on right, the Royal Canal on left and a P&T linesman on top. There'll be no commuter service tonight, although there is a parallel line on the other side of Croker. The MGW line which follows the canal to Mullingar.

By 1981 the roof was in disrepair


(Sligo Champion - Friday 30 October 1981)

Is this what's left of it? Streetview PS I think the old station house is a bit further than the building on the left, better seen in this streetview from a viewpoint slightly to the right, with a vestige of the platform still visible.

That is some change over the years.

MIND THE GAP! Miss J B Dodwell, a nurse, had a nasty accident at the station in 1904

When leaving it [the train] at Balysodare she found (it is alleged) that the platform was lower than the floor of the carriage, and that there was a large space between carriage and platform. While trying to reach the latter she slipped and fell between it and the carriage. She had a narrow escape. "Fortunately the train was not in motion," said her counsel, but she was very much injured, and had to be taken on to Enniskillen.

Miss Dodwell was off work for a month and was awarded £150* damages at Derry City Assizes. (Irish Independent - Thursday 23 March 1905) *£14,000 - £24,000 depending on which inflation calculator you use.

From eiretrains: Ballysadare, Co.Sligo, is located on the Midland Great Western Railway's Dublin to Sligo line, and is the last station before Sligo itself. The station opened with the line in 1862, but closed to passengers in 1963 and to goods in 1975. The station had two platforms, but the up platform and signal cabin have been demolished since the track upgrading. The derelict station buildings and goods shed are on the down side. Until the late 1950s, Ballysadare Station was shared between CIE and the Sligo Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway, who operated trains to and from Sligo and Enniskillen. The line from Ballysadare to Sligo was worked as double track until 1959 when the SLNCR line closed, and was lifted soon after. At the north end of the station there as a long siding which diverged through a short rocky cutting into Ballysadare Flour Mill, but was lifted in the late 1960s.

Well, 1895 onwards. Loco looks like the ‘Bat’, Class E no. 110, from 1891 Edit: This loco ended its days on the Waterford to Tramore line up to 1961. In service for 70 years. They don’t make them like that anymore!

Station opened 1895. Looks very fresh here, lime on the red brick, zero weeds in the track bed.

In 1901, Robert John Boag was stationmaster, but he was only 27. I think the gent in the bowler is master here and twice that age. Or maybe the man next to him in the fanciest uniform is Boag, and Mr. Bowler Hat is a boss from the railway company?

There are several pics. In L_IMP_3526 there is a torn poster advertising FAIRS AUGUST, and a noticeboard marked GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY??

L_IMP_3528 still has neat stacks of red bricks and roof tiles from construction of the station. {EDIT see below, that is one is Clifden, not Achill]