Inspection Car Each railway company had special engines which they used to inspect the track. This inspection car was built in 1906 in Birmingham at a ...
Composite Carriages This carriage operated in West Donegal between Stranorlar and Donegal Town. It originally catered for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class passengers ...
Locomotive GNR 93 No 93 was built at the GNR works in Dublin. It operated on the 5ft 3 ins. standard gauge and started life working on the Dublin – Howth ...
Locomotive Narrow Gauge The Co. Donegal railway operated on the 3ft narrow gauge track. As these locomotives pulled lighter loads of both passengers and goods, ...
Kathleen The Kathleen was built for the opening of the Cavan Leitrim and Roscommon Railway in 1887 and named after a daughter of one of the ...
Industrial Railways This locomotive was built in 1906 for the British Aluminium Company at Larne Harbour. The company’s 4 – mile railway was used to ...
The Brewery Link This engine was built in Cork in 1905 and designed by the Guinness brewery’s chief engineer. It pulled transporter wagons from the ...
The Saw Mill This photograph shows a saw-mill in Kilrea in 1905. The timber was brought to the town by both river and rail transport. Once the trees ...
Commercial Street This photograph gives some indication of commercial life in an Ulster town at the end of the 19th century. It includes a variety of ...
Hardware Shop While saw mills sometimes sold timber directly to the public, much of it was sold in hardware shops. These shops also sold tools to ...
