Famous (or infamous) Irish railway staff?

[minister_for_hardship]

Apart from the well-known CME's whose careers shuttled between England and Ireland.

To get the ball rolling...

 

Playwright Sean O'Casey, worked for a time with the GNRI as a clerk.

Writer Frank O'Connor, did a spell in Cork Goods I think.

William Hulme, formerly of the L&NWR, involved in the apprehension of William Smith O'Brien at Thurles. Accounts say he bought a public house with the proceeds of the reward and was his own best customer.

Former Taoseach Albert Reynolds.

 

 

Any more?

[Riversuir226]

Dan Breen (war of independence IR leader)

[Glenderg]

Can we make stuff up for the craic, as long as its some way believeable? Brian Cowen as train driver for Bord na Mona Narrow Gauge?

[Garfield]

The journalist and Eurovision songwriter John Waters was a clerk at Castlerea station.

[WRENNEIRE]

Gay Byrne drove the last Howth Tram.....

[Broithe]

There's always Gerry Corkery.

 

[minister_for_hardship]

There's always Gerry Corkery.

 

 

A bit of a Paul Daniels...he can turn a herd of cows into a field.

 

Another couple of less well known individuals,

 

Charles Blacker Vignoles - early Irish born railway pioneer

R.L. Ross from Coleraine- inventor of the pop safety valve

Charles Yelverton O'Connor from Co Meath- engineer-in-chief and acting general manager of railways in Western Australia

Edited August 8, 2013 by minister_for_hardship

[Broithe]

Are "famous" passengers allowed?

 

I'm visible at 0:09 in this advert, sitting down, right at the back, by the pillar...

 

[WRENNEIRE]

NO!

[Train model]

Ovs bulleid

[Garfield]

Ovs bulleid

 

Ah, but CMEs don't count in this thread...

[jhb171achill]

Jedward; one manages each of two CIE subsidiaries. But which ones?