DiveController Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 While browsing through some of Jonathon Allen's photos I noticed some pigeon carriers at Lisburn. I know that rail was used to convey the birds to the starting location in GB but I was wondering how prevalent a practice this was in Ireland? Was it was confined to fanciers in NI or was this traffic carried by the GSR or by early CIE? https://www.flickr.com/photos/152343870@N07/38788790435/in/photolist-SLx6zf-iy2TBc-bYEe8G-oSwRY8-eejVB5-cc3gqj-PN2n8V-ee1gLn-eddXTi-edB6aL-e6hGxX-mNfk1z-edLsnP-faLz5h-Fk8xKw-dREQaM-6FJ6WT-226CG1T-hxbFZZ-7L1G2j-8g4PkM-pLn8L2-dsz7nN-2hE2sVU-9RB9pM-aLuB58-cwJuQY-bY5gML-bY5kTN-apx8yq-moRmF2-8pMCft-nAJ2Z6-7Vuqsb-83DDWB-RJS46i-9zjz3m-7i54P6-K3piHh-bY5S5E-BDgzfe-24wLgqr-bXZ9dN-d9iRqY-8bCWWT-amXKm5-bkDGZH-2fH22J9-2bMLWZb-cc8Le7/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DERAILED Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 I remember seeing CIE bogie carriages with pigeons on the Rosslare line in the early 1970s. Can't be more specific I'm afraid as I wasn't an enthusiast at the time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Irish railways carried them to an extent but there was never a huge interest outside Belfast and Dublin. They went in wicker baskets in the guard’s vans of passenger trains usually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PorkyP Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Always thought of it as an English thing really, there was certainly a an established trade on BR...though seem to recall in the press a while back an Irish pigeon sold for some insane amount , over 250,000 or something ...my only involvement has been shooting them I'm afraid to say, we always found them a feckin' nuisance, crapping all over the horses and their rugs etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 The current Liberation Sites in the Republic. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1uQBJsuTiAy13ozyGxa6zw9EzrCbl4dVU&ll=52.57355874044342%2C-7.998124950000033&z=8 Showing a tendency to be in the vicinity of railway traffic..? On the Big Island, it seems to be all road traffic now - there is a small business near me with two specially fitted release trucks, though they're not 'at home' on any of the available Street View shots. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edo Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Jaysis - if I was "liberated" in Gowran - I'd leg it out of there pronto too..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin_McLeod Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Looks like the traffic goes by bus now! 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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