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The Public Records Office of Ireland c. 1900. In 1867, under the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Parliament passed the Public Records (Ireland) Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 70) to establish the Public Record Office of Ireland which was tasked with collecting administrative, court and probate records over twenty years old. [5]
Córas Iompair Éireann (Irish for 'Irish Transport System'), or CIÉ, is a statutory corporation of Ireland, answerable to the Irish Government and responsible for most public transport within the Republic of Ireland and jointly with its Northern Ireland counterpart, the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (which trades as Translink), for the railway service between Dublin and Belfast ...
Iarnród Éireann also has responsibility for running freight services on the Irish network through its Freight Division – which recorded a tonnage decrease of 19.2% in 2019, [1] and as of 2020, there are 3 freight flows running throughout the country. This operates both Railfreight trains and a network of road haulage through various ...
1906 railway map. The first railway in Ireland opened in 1834. At its peak in 1920, Ireland had 5,600 km (3,480 mi) of railway; now only about half of this remains. A large area around the border has no rail service. Ireland's first light rail line was opened on 30 June 2004.
The Dublin and Kingstown line in 1837 Dublin and Kingstown Railway, by John Harris. Although a railway between Limerick and Waterford had been authorised as early as 1826 (the same year as Britain's first exclusively locomotive-drawn line, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway) [1] it was not until 1834 that the first railway was built, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR) between Westland ...
Iarnród Éireann opted to extend the service to an hourly clockface departure in order to increase growth on the line. Initially, to eliminate the Locomotive shunt, interest was expressed in a long range diesel multiple unit however, since Iarnród Éireann had a large fleet of high-speed diesel locomotives which were less than ten years old ...
Sligo Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway An Irish Railway Pictorial - Sprinks, Neil - 2001 - ISBN 1-85780-112-1 Standard Gauge Railways in the North of Ireland - Morton, R.G. - 1965 Steam Locomotives Of The Ulster Transport Authority - Pue, R.J.A. - 1997, ISBN 1-900612-00-3
Stage 1 of the project began on 16 November 2007, relaying track between Ennis and Athenry, a distance of approximately 60 km/36 miles. [2] The WRC project has been widely criticised as passenger numbers have been extremely low, with critics saying it would be cheaper for Irish Rail to put each passenger in a taxi than running