All standing still in Clifden!
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A photograph that Mr. O'Dea would have been jealous of, Clifden station taken on an Imperial plate with lots of station staff to watch the operation. On a weekend with very low temperatures it's good to contemplate days where heavy coats and jackets are surplus to requirements and there is warmth in the air! Clifden in the summer would fit the bill and so we can look with envy at the people waiting to board the train to go somewhere nice and pleasant.
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa1865 - 1914 1895 - 1898
NLI Ref: L_IMP_3449
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Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa
NLI Ref: L_IMP_3449
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Hmm - there is a church steeple missing, seen in a later ("c. 1910") photo -.jpg/1200px-CIE_no._589_(44704220350).jpg)
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifden_railway_station
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St Joseph's Church - "In 1898 the Church Spire was completed standing at a height of 150 feet." - www.clifdenparish.com/clifden-history/ Station opened 1/1/1895 (see wiki above). So 1895 - 1898, so far ...
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Re the Wiki pix, post 1925 as it now sports a GSR number
suckindeesel
Loco is no. 26, which I can’t just trace at the moment. Station operated 1895 - 1935
Niall McAuley
Galway to Clifden railway opened in 1895. Everything looks very fresh here, I'd say we are not too far from the opening.
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What are those handles at the front of the locomotive? Seems to say 07:31 ...
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Per another article wiki on the Galway-Clifden Railway, Galway Oughterard opened in Jan 1895, but On 1 July 1895, the remainder of the line to Clifden was put into operation I see a poster for Fairs August, I think it is likely we are very near that opening date.
Deirge (Del)
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184[email protected]] I was reckoning it was a 'D' class 2-4-0 and if it is No. 26 then the name is Britania. Got the good old Martin Atock (little crew element protection) flying cab It was later converted to a 4-4-0
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] The DIA confirms 1898 for the steeple:New church. Tenders invited, Dec 1871. FS laid 28 Aug 1872 by Archbishop MacHale. Builder: P. Morris. Building in advanced state of progress by Oct 1874. Tower and spire added 1898 through exertions of Canon Lynskey, PP (tenders sought May, 1896,Jun 1898).
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I could not make out the name by squinting at it in megazoom, but now that you say it, it does look like BRITANNIA
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Yes, that’s the one, I can just make out Britannia with some squinting. Built 1880 and rebogied to 4-4-0 in 1900
Deirge (Del)
Ah. more information at MGWR Class D No. 26 became a 4-4-0 in 1900. (I've just re-crossed checked that with book sources.)
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ So, pre 1900
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Streetview, but from the other side Google Earth Link earth.app.goo.gl/2S1Sdi #googleearth
Niall McAuley
Streetview 2009.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Date updated.
Niall McAuley
A FAIRS AUGUST poster also appeared at Achill Staion (also opened 1895), in a linked shot L_IMP_3526
Niall McAuley
Also in the comments under that Achill one, we found a mislabelled shot of Clifden station: L_IMP_3528 In that one we see stacks of bricks and tiles from construction. I think it is the same day as today's shot - there is a ladder on the ground beneath the double window, the top left window is open half way. Some of the same workers are in both. I think it is the same train, having used the turntable iafter that one and before today's shot. Same driver and fireman, too.
Niall McAuley
This 1950 O'Dea ODEA 4/27 is well after it closed. Unusually badly taken for an O'Dea.
Niall McAuley
Here is the other side, the entrance from the street in L_ROY_11190. This is later, showing Ernst Röhm and the motor charabancs from 1912+. A bus tour route from Clifden to Westport is shown on the 1906 map we have seen before.
John Spooner
Mullarkey's Hotel (proprietor H Mullarkey as on the poster) was put up for sale on 16th February 1897 (Freeman's Journal - Thursday 11 February 1897) after which H Mullarkey was presumably no longer the proprietor.
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner] Mullarkey's is the name of the bar in Foyle's Hotel, Clifden today. Streetview No Foyle in 1901 or 1911 census though. I think May O'Sullivan was manageress in 1901,
Niall McAuley
STP_1134 shows Mullarkey's Hotel pre-1883. L_IMP_3921 shows the Railway Hotel, clearly the same building with a remodel and some new bay windows. Foyles in the above streetview is the same building doubled. The NIAH says :Attached six-bay three-storey hotel, built c.1890, having canted bays to ground and first floor of middle and end bays, pitched cast-iron and glazed portico to main entrance with decorative cast-iron columns. Additional blocks to rear built c.1900. which is at best partly true. Here in L_ROY_06397 we See Ernst and his charabanc outside the half-size Railway Hotel, so Foyles doubled in size after 1912 sometime.
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[Aside] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] In the background of those hotel photos, you can see St Joseph's R.C. Church taking shape - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000564447 (no church, pre 1879, see www.clifdenparish.com/clifden-history/ ) catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000329612 (church, no spire, 1879 - 1898) catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321250 (spire complete) The bigger picture (at the time of Herr Röhm's charabancs?). The church dominates the railway station - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041532