Irish Industrial Railways

[Mol_PMB]

11 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Must check out my Walter McGrath book…the only electric peat line I know of was Annaghmore. 

I have asked the question on the Industrial Railway Society egroup. Someone there will know for sure.

[jhb171achill]

21 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Must check out my Walter McGrath book…the only electric peat line I know of was Annaghmore. 

I’d say so, yes.

[Ironroad]

2 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

"Cross Ley"? Actually sounds English. Anyone know where this is / was?

Delving a little deeper on Google reveals that Cross Ley is probably not a geographical location. Ley lines are a concept connecting ancient burial mounds. There is a Ley line in Ireland connecting such sites running from Sligo to Dublin.

[jhb171achill]

8 minutes ago, Ironroad said:

Delving a little deeper on Google reveals that Cross Ley is probably not a geographical location. Ley lines are a concept connecting ancient burial mounds. There is a Ley line in Ireland connecting such sites running from Sligo to Dublin.

Wasn’t aware of that - I had heard of ley lines, but I thought they related specifically to ancient English history - hence my initial as l thoughts that this railway must be over there…..

Mr google tells me we have “ley lines” too; but I’d still be certain that railway isn’t here.

Edited Thursday at 18:34 by jhb171achill

[Mol_PMB]

Tomgue in cheek there were 94 CrossLeys on CIE...

The slide is in the Mason Photographic Collection in the NLI archive. The glass plates are described as follows:

In Collection:

Mason Photographic Collection

Description:

Lantern slides are organised under box numbers M1-52. M1- M10 Irish Industries; M11- M13 Ireland At Work; M14- M15 Dublin City and County; M16 Box A; M17 Box B; M18 Box 3; M19 Box D; M20 Box E; M21 Box F; M22 Box G; M23 Box H; M24 Box I; M25 Box J; M26 Dublin Scenes; M27 Christchurch; M28 The Normans (includes handlist); M29 St Patrick's; M30 St Patrick's (includes handlist); M31 St Patrick's; M32 Irish Manuscripts and Their Cases; M33 Irish Croziers and Shrines; M34- M37 Antrim; M38 Carlow/Cavan; M39- M40 Clare; M41 (Mason T.) Boyne and Tara (includes handlist); M42- M48 Irish History; M49- M50 Isle of Man; M51- M52 Foreign/ Unidentified and unnumbered.

 

Also in his collection, this image shows a Dublin-registered canal barge laden with turf:

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000519034

There is also this image of turf stacks in the Bog of Allen:

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000519037

Given that part of his collection is categorised 'Irish Industries' I wouldn't completely discount the railway being in Ireland.

 

The arrangement of the trolleypole matches that on the electric locos illustrated on the Annaghmore Turf Railway, in the little book mentioned by @Galteemore. I bought a copy last week following that recommendation! The bodywork of the loco is different, but the book says that was built locally so it may post-date the NLI photo.

[Mol_PMB]

See also...

 

[Mol_PMB]

A few more images of the system on the IRRS archive:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53570708153/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/54418647342/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/54418647332/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53510358297/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53511251981/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53511570284/

What I had not realised until just now is that this is the same place! My own photo: