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That would beat the record for shortest lived station, Meelick (3 months)

I guess seaside excursion goers would have been supplied with hampers and cases of beer and the empty bottles got thrown out of the windows. The one time I wouldn't be mad at people littering if I found one!

LMSNCC bottles are quite plentiful, the MRNCC ones are scarce. Any other Irish railway bottles are like hens' teeth.

Maybe a Fry commission?

Turning the Broken Wheel into a life ring

What was the deal with stationary boiler locos? What were they supplying steam to? I assume they were withdrawn locos used in that capacity until they needed major attention and then replaced with another off the scrap line and cut up?

If the moribund Tralee Blennerville is the way it is, and it located in a large town, connected to public transport, at a gateway to a major tourist area, I would be inclined to agree there is 0% hope for a railway in the actual middle of nowhere, esp without even a small committed group driving the thing.

The A class is only held together with many coats of paint.

I have a feeling it's neither. It was owned by CIE/Irish Rail when plinthed, I'd say it may be on long term loan to JW or WCR Co. Nua.

The promoter of the first Cork trams was certainly an interesting chap. Peculiarly, the rails were not flush with the street surface so cannot have been popular with horse and cart operators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Francis_Train

"Active travel" is corporate speak for greenways or paths for walking and cycling. Travel that takes physical effort.

https://www.radiokerry.ie/news/consultants-analysing-of-section-of-former-tralee-and-dingle-light-railway-to-identify-potential-future-uses-476293 At the recent Tralee Municipal District meeting, Fine Gael councillor Angie Baily.... said (the route of former railway) could enhance biodiversity, recreational amenity, flood mitigation, and active travel connectivity. Basically anything but a railway.

Yes there's plans afoot for the inevitable greenway. https://nigreenways.com/downpatrick-to-ardglass-greenway/ The lack of support from councils/govt must be galling for the DCDR. They seem to be able to move mountains when it comes to greenways.

That was the original intention of what is now the DCDR. Things got in the way I imagine.

Basically, it was a giant, expensive garden railway Tralee UDC/KCC got tired of playing with. You could argue that things like playgrounds and greenways make no returns either but these appear to be appreciated by the public. As far as I can see in online discourse, I see no great appetite among locals to do anything with the railway, apart from the occasional "won't someone do something with the railway/it's a disgrace, Joe" type comments every few months. I would agree 5T would be better off reassembled, cosmetically restored, ideally in GSR era condition reflecting the Inchicore rebuildings, and put in covered and secure public display, whatever about economics, the likelihood of it leaving Kerry for Dromod would be somewhere between slim and none.