Beautiful footage and once again very historic footage taken by Joe.

I drove the Deutz in Limerick around 1985 Pat Dineen.

some years back an old retired per way man told me 'that within a few days of the closure the railway bridge at ranalagh was demolished on a sunday morning so there would no reversal of the decision,

A wonderful clip - Thanks for uploading.

fascinating to see Dundrum and Stillorgan TRULY in the countryside 😎

If the Green Party had of been any good, two things they could have done was, get rid of Fluoride and Choline in the water which is proved to lower IQ and the second thing was to reopen all the train lines through out Ireland, cars off the road. Question what percentage of GDP pays off the National Debt 😮

Amazing.The stupid stunts took up the rail links from Dublin to Athboy which ran from 1865 until the brainless stunts decided that we would no longer be reproducing in Ireland and would have no need for connecting the midlands to the Capital.

I believe we have Todd Andrews to thank for those closures and as a result the political dynasty he founded still thrives ( except of course Chris Andrews lost his seat this year!) No imagination and no ability to look forward

Lovely video, priceless

Its thanks to us being in the UK that these wonderful feats of engineering were built, As soon as we leave the UK paddy closes it all down, mad kip..

That's really interesting. It looks foggy with some smoke mixed in. It was something of a miracle to me that it was possible to build the Luas so many years later on the same line. Around 1:29 appears to be the iron framed wooden foot bridge later at St Benildus (1966). It was the best part of the school week to cross to the pitches. Great video. 1:29 The footbridge later at St Benildus fields (1966)

Wonderful, Thank you. Moving beyond outrage at the closing of this line, it should be re-opened from Charlemont all the way south with upgraded DART. Re-lay the proper track and use the newly ordered mixed-energy-source rolling stock. High frequency Drogheda, Maynooth & Hazelhatch lines do not require DART + but instead should utilise newer versions of DE rolling stock.

1 minute 35" in and that bridge is the one that used to connect Balally parish with St Benildus College. It gradually fell down by about 1980. When the planks rotted and fell off we used to walk across the central metal girder to get across. Just for dares as there was a filled in section beside it that you were meant to use properly. I think the bridge skeleton stayed there till about 1984. The bridge's stone/metal pillars stayed there much longer till the rebuild.

Wonderful work

Brilliant

am looking for a picture of the Shankill Quinns Road bridge that approached Shanganagh Junction - especially from the road if anyone can locate a pic of it

Another Fianna Fail decision

Many thanks for making this available!

Living in Wicklow, I think it's crazy that work on the extension to Bray won't even begin until 2035.

# 1958 - the line should of been turned into two high frequency bus lanes .

Thank you for sharing. I could identify with the lad in short pants and long coat following his mother [?] across the line from the Up platform to the Down platform at the end of the Foxrock platforms. This must have been a Leopardstown race day as the race day track was in use. To think i was a young lad playing somewhere down the road that day not realizing what we were about to loose. Tragic. Are you happy now Todd?

Thank you for sharing this incredible footage❤️ my parents were regular passengers on this line. Neither saw the LUAS but they would have been overjoyed the line reopened in some form!

Would love to see footage of the journey south from Foxrock over Bride’s Glen to Shankill and the junction with the coastal line. Travelled it as a baby 😢

A lovely record: I enjoyed watching it

Great uncle used to work on this track and others around Dublin , as quite shaken when line was closed .

Amazing piece of footage. My father, who was from Donnybrook, often talked about this line which fortunately still exists by way of LUAS trams.

Both my great grandparents worked in the inchicore works at the turn of the last century (1900) I'm trying to find some information about them. George griffin and john mccord from south terrace and ring street inchicore....tom.

Really interesting piece of work - bravo the film maker AND the digitiser.

Which spur is shown at 4:05?

Stunning footage, brilliant to see.

The name, Todd Andrews, is still infamous in south Dublin for his insane decision to close the Harcourt railway at the very time it was needed most; when suburbia was spreading rapidly outwards from Dundrum.

The world was much nicer in black and white!

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Luas Green Line.

Amazing thanks. The sheer madness of closing that line when massive housing developments were starting to spring up and many planned. Look at the passenger loadings even in this footage.

Old Harcourt line is now a path at the side of the house here in leopardstown.

Great footage thanks for sharing that 👍

Tallow Road Station has been beautifully restored....now a private residence.

Reopening of closed railway lines cut down on Pollution, Car Accidents, Road Deaths & Traffic Jams.

Great work. Sad to see though. Dont mind a few negstive comments could have been death march

Good thing the Waterford greenway is keeping the line’s legacy alive.

Reopening of the closed railway lines new government should fastrack.

Beautiful tribute to the great Generation that came before us😢🎉@paddy sullivan 📼 1990s Cork

The Sugar Beet industry another one our Government closed down.God protect us from small minded politicians.

It's a pity the once mighty railway metropolis that Waterford once was has now been reduced to an almost wayside halt, with only one of the old bay platforms in use for ICR trams. Urgent climate action suggests reopening the line to wexford/rosslare for commuters, freight and foot passenger as ferry access will become important once again when we start switching back to ferries from low cost air travel (ie when air travel is carbon tax out of the sky).

Reopening the parts of the line not greenway to trains would cut down on 1) Traffic Jams, 2) Road Deaths/Car Accidents or 3) Pollution.

Background music is awful. Great video.

Pity about dreadful background music, ruins the video, please delete.

The Blackwater river doesn't go near Dungarvan. That's the mighty Colligan.

you can see the remains of a bridge out side killavullen where the line ran, the station is still partly there a goldcrop company there now@paddy Sullivan 📼 videos 1990s Cork

Fabulous video well worth watching.