Ironing The Land - Railways In A Free State

[@gilwil119]

My mother, who is 86, recalls her Uncle Jimmy and wife Elsie, living in a railway cottage, I assume off a siding, near Newcastle, in the Dundrum direction. She stayed with him and his wife when she was about 10 as Elsie was expecting at the time. She mostly recalls the marigolds outside and that he used to bring the train to the bank above the house for her to get in, shunt the train back to the station where she got out and got the shopping. Any further info or pictures would be very much appreciated.

[@irishrailtrains]

Excellent video Danny !

[@danchang7146]

RIP Dick Warner

[@Celtic2Realms]

Good film and they putting the rails back - ironing the land.

[@TheIrishMainline]

Glad you enjoyed it, final episode will be up shortly :)

[@Whizzy-jx3qe]

Getting behind the wheel of a car these days is a nightmare. To much traffic on roads. Pity most of the railways in rural areas especially in N Ireland were closed.

[@TheIrishMainline]

Too true Des, the motorways are making the train a less attractive option in recent times. It's going to take considerable investment to make the majority of the network competitive timewise.

[@joshuaW5621]

So stupid of them to close the railways. I’m just glad the Harcourt Street line has been revived as the Luas.

[@VickersV]

When i was alive back then, now ye didn't call a sheep to it's face especially if it was from The County Clare. My god.

[@Isochest]

The Irish pay punitive car taxes today. As an Englishman I was shocked in 2018 to see a 1.6 litre Peugeot Estate car with a tax disc paying over 500 Euros. You are subbing the Trucks and your Gangster Politicians have done this to you!

[@toyotaprius79]

The criminality is the insurance cartel and lack of a public co-operative option.

[@toyotaprius79]

6:18 that was a hilariously round about way to put it, 🎽

[@TheDaf95xf]

So sad 😞

[@johnpurcell7525]

British Built our Railways Roads Canals Irish FFD them up then Emigrated to Britain

[@samnicholson5051]

Er no, Irish companies built it and if you mean closing down much of the network, the exact same thing happened in Britain.

[@johnpurcell7525]

Our Trams Canals taken over closed down by Free State Railways Gutted Rural roads neglected Gombeen Gobshits