Just visiting

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Was at Limerick Junction this morning on an errand, nothing exciting though!

 

[jhb171achill]

Gawd be with the days when you’d lines of wagons, horse boxes, and the back platforms, and a few “A” class sitting with ferts or bubbles waiting to go somewhere……. and there was a Limerick - Rosslare passenger train with a 141 and up to five laminates and a tin van….

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

3 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Gawd be with the days when you’d lines of wagons, horse boxes, and the back platforms, and a few “A” class sitting with ferts or bubbles waiting to go somewhere……. and there was a Limerick - Rosslare passenger train with a 141 and up to five laminates and a tin van….

Ya and the boxing club in the hall (that CIE provided for the community) full, getting ready for the Christmas party for the kids.

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

Ya and the boxing club in the hall (that CIE provided for the community) full, getting ready for the Christmas party for the kids.

CIE provided a lot for its employees back then. Even the GSWR was well ahead in some respects, though working hours and pay scales left too much to be desired before trade unions became properly developed. They ran things like savings schemes, and a library for workers at Inchicore. My grandfather had a small savings scheme with the railway for years - it transferred over from GSWR to GSR to CIE. I believe he cashed it in when he retired, two weeks into the CIE era.

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

28 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

CIE provided a lot for its employees back then. Even the GSWR was well ahead in some respects, though working hours and pay scales left too much to be desired before trade unions became properly developed. They ran things like savings schemes, and a library for workers at Inchicore. My grandfather had a small savings scheme with the railway for years - it transferred over from GSWR to GSR to CIE. I believe he cashed it in when he retired, two weeks into the CIE era.

Ya it was like a big family in the Junction, my dad bought his first house from CIE, a railway cottage beside the station, £65 in 1962, paid for out of the wages, a year later when I was born he got the chance to buy an end cottage with access to the back around the gable, that was £75 and CIE bought the first one back, a great help to the workers.

[DiveController]

9 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Gawd be with the days when you’d lines of wagons, horse boxes, and the back platforms, and a few “A” class sitting with ferts or bubbles waiting to go somewhere……. and there was a Limerick - Rosslare passenger train with a 141 and up to five laminates and a tin van….

It’s actually quite shocking how underutilized Irish railways are