1935 Appendix to the Working Timetable

[jhb171achill]

For those like me who have descended into the parallel reality of incurable nerdism, documents such as these provide a fascinating insight into how the railway actually functioned in the past.

What follows is just a tiny sample of the sort of information contained therein.

 

[jhb171achill]

Main line services, West Cork, summer 1935.

[hexagon789]

I have a few myself, though all GB ones. The older ones, as you rightly say, have a whole host of interesting snapshots of working practices of the time.

One of the things that interests me most asides from the specific practices particular to specific locations is the list of permitted speeds on each line.

To me they provide as much a picture of the developing rail network as the other information contained within.