National Museum of Ireland, railway collection

[cheesy_peas]

Famously uninterested in railways or industrial subjects in general, don't know why they didn't send them on to the IRRS.

Mostly photos of GNRI interest, plus an interesting pre conversion makers photo of what would become CDR's Phoenix.

https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/?page=2&term=Railway+&media=yes&adv_sub[]=Historical+Collection&division[]=Art+and+Industrial+Division&agent[]=Great+Northern+Railway+Ireland&organisation[]=NMI

 

[jhb171achill]

And naturally, wrong dates on some of them. A CDR picture with a red and cream vehicle visible in the distance is described as "1900"!

If this is the level of care that museums take, what hope is there for accurate recording of future history!

[Flying Snail]

Thanks for sharing - there's some lovely photos there, whatever about the dates.

I ran another search for the keyword 'train' and it threw up some interesting items

https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/?term=train&media=yes

... including this lovely model 0-4-2 'Bray':

https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/object-30320/?return=%2Fcollections%2Fcollection%2F%3Fterm%3Dtrain%26media%3Dyes

[Flying Snail]

... and here's something for the bus aficionados: a tin plate bus repainted in yellow with 'CIE Cavan' added

https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/object-11020696/?return=%2Fcollections%2Fcollection%2F%3Fterm%3DC%C3%B3ras%20Iompair%20%C3%89ireann%26media%3Dyes

crude but quaint ... it must have many given many hours of pleasure to some Cavan child fadó