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The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain.By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km). The current status is less than half that amount, with a large unserviced area around the border area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Irish Railways 40 years of change. Cornwall: Atlantic Publishers. ISBN 0-906899-75-3. OCLC 41329412. Irish Railways in Colour - Ferris, Tom - ISBN 1-85780-000-1; Irish Railways in Colour A Second Glance - Ferris, Tom - 1995, ISBN 1-85780-019-2; Irish Railways in Pictures No 1 GNR(I) - Irish Railway Records Society London Area - 1976
William Dargan MRDS (28 February 1799 – 7 February 1867) was arguably the most important Irish engineer of the 19th century and certainly the most important figure in railway construction. [1] Dargan designed and built Ireland's first railway line from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire in 1833. In total he constructed over 1,300 km (800 miles) of ...
The Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway company in Ireland from 1844 [2] until 1924. [3] The GS&WR grew by building lines and making a series of takeovers, until in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was the largest of Ireland's "Big Four" railway networks.
The 43.4 km long (27.0 mi) West Clare Railway between Ennis and Milltown Malbay was built a few years earlier than the South Clare Railway. The first sod was cut on 26 January 1885 at Milltown Malbay by Charles Stewart Parnell, M.P., [1] [2] although actual work on the line had begun in November 1884.
The Irish Railway Record Society has a library of Irish railway documents at Heuston station and charters an annual railtour. The Modern Railway Society of Ireland promoted interest in modern-day Irish Railways and charters occasional railtours, before it was wound up in 2024. Irish Traction Group based at Carrick-on-Suir.
Ireland's First Railway. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society. ISBN 0-904078-07-8. Pearson, Peter (1981). Dun Laoghaire Kingstown. O'Brien Press. ISBN 0-905140-83-4. Science Museum Group (2020). "Model of locomotive "Alexandra", Dublin and Kingstown Railway". Science Museum Group Collection. Archived from the original on 9 September 2020
The experience led to larger projects, including new railways in Ireland, which then was wholly part of the United Kingdom. This included Ireland's first, the Dublin and Kingstown (the latter town and ferry port is now called Dun Laoghaire) (1832–34), initially built to the standard English gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)."