Excursions to Tramore

Ladies' Bathing Place, Tramore.

Ladies' Bathing Place, Tramore.

© Waterford City Library (purchased June 1998 from Tim Healy)

Ladies' Bathing Place, Tramore.
© Waterford City Library (purchased June 1998 from Tim Healy)

Ladies' Bathing Place, Tramore.

Ladies' Bathing Place, Tramore.

© Waterford City Library (purchased June 1998 from Tim Healy)

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There was a great enthusiasm among all involved in the railway to make Tramore a popular seaside resort and residential area for citizens of Waterford.

The Waterford to Tramore Railway was a thriving concern; the directors were so proud of their property and had such a high opinion of its requirements that they employed three guards. When privately owned the company had the atmosphere of an old fashioned family run business.
 

The people of Waterford spent their leisure time by the seaside, they took their children and all the prams could be piled in to the large guard's van free of charge. For Lady's Day at the Tramore Races in August 1870 3, 276 people bought return tickets on the Tramore line.

Business men began the new trend of residing in Tramore and catching the train to Waterford. They moved their homes out to Tramore, bought season tickets and their bicycles were carried for free.

Anyone building a house in Tramore had their building materials carried free of charge by the railway company and those purchasing houses in the resort received a first-class railway pass for five years. One could buy very reasonably priced combined rail and hotel tickets, good for one week's full board at the Grand Hotel in Tramore as well as seven double rail journeys.