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Moate Railway Station
Moate Railway Station
The construction of the railway line from Dublin to Athlone was completed in 1855. It line reached Moate in 1854 so we can accurately state that this station was built by 1854. the contractor was William Dargan a native of Carlow.
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Image of Rian Bó Phadraig map 4 Ardfinnan to Cahir
Image of Rian Bó Phadraig map 4 Ardfinnan to Cahir
Rian Bó Phadraig map 4 Ardfinnan to Cahir
By kind permission of Ardmore Enterprise Co-Operative
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Mullingar Railway Station
Mullingar Railway Station
Early 20c view of the Mullingar Railway Station,it was designed by the architect J. S. Mulvany. The railway line from Dublin reached Mullingar in1848 by which time the new station was built. On 2nd October 1848 the first train arrived in Mullingar.
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At Lake St.Agnes, After the Flight from Greenly Island in the Ford Plane.
At Lake St.Agnes, After the Flight from Greenly Island in the Ford Plane.
The ‘three musketeers of the air’ Baron Guenther von Huenefeld, Major James C. Fitzmaurice and Captain Hermann Koehl at Lake St.Agnes, Canada.
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Southern Station Workers
Southern Station Workers
This picture was taken outside one of the Goods Sheds at the Great Southern and Western Railway Station in Athlone in 1927. It shows a group of eighteen workers with their clerk of works (or engineer?). Looking at the range of tools it would seem that the workers include carpenters, plasterers and stone-masons. These workers were probably involved in the conversion of the station from a passenger station to a goods station. This railway station, which was closed to passenger services from 1927-1983, now serves as the railway station for Athlone.
© Westmeath Library Service
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Map of Dublin Bay
Map of Dublin Bay
This map of Dublin Bay was completed in 1823 by Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832) for the Commissioners of Irish Fisheries. The map shows the position of Dún Laoghaire, or Kingstown which it had been renamed only two years previously. The two piers are essentially completed. Also visible are the natural obstacles at the Liffey estuary before the building of the North Wall.
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
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Last consignment at Athlone Docks
Last consignment at Athlone Docks
The transportation of goods into and out of Athlone was facilitated by the building of a canal west of the town in 1757 and made more efficient by the Shannon Navigation Works of the 1840s. Throughout the 19th C. river transport was the favoured means of transport for many goods – including Guinness. However a combination of improvements in both road and rail transport in the 20th C. saw the twilight of this form of transportation. This consignment seen being unloaded at the Docks in Athlone was an Intertype Composing Machine for Athlone Printing Works it is said to have been last consignment of its kind at Athlone Docks.
© Westmeath Library Service
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Miss Hertha Junkers hops off from New York for Greenly Island with spare parts for the Bremen.
Miss Hertha Junkers hops off from New York for Greenly Island with spare parts for the Bremen.
Photograph of Miss Hertha Junkers, daughter of the inventor Professor Hugo Junkers, as she leaves Curtiss Field, New York, for Newfoundland, Canada with parts for the Bremen.
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Mayor Walker Welcomes the Flyers to New York City
Mayor Walker Welcomes the Flyers to New York City
Photograph of (left to right) Captain Hermann Koehl, Major James C. Fitzmaurice, Mayor Jimmy Walker and Baron Guenther von Huenefeld.
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Colonel Lindbergh arrives at Quebec
Colonel Lindbergh arrives at Quebec
Photograph of Colonel Charles Lindbergh, arriving at Quebec, carrying medical supplies for Floyd Bennett, who contracted pneumonia while in Canada on a relief flight for the Bremen.
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