ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 22/May/2023 08:14:05

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In August 1965 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/188084421@N03/. That is seven year old Alistair ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/188084421@N03/50426880261/ 1 September 1959 was a Tuesday ...

John Spooner

• 22/May/2023 08:15:47

An ideal place for a bird to build its nest without fear of disturbance. So more so in 1959 than 31 years previously. Londonderry Sentinel - Tuesday 10 July 1928:

A wagtail has built her nest underneath boards covering the points the Clogher Valley Bailway line at Maguiresbridge Station. Although the points are moved each time a train passes over the nest, the bird sits calmly hatching her four eggs.

Niall McAuley

• 22/May/2023 08:20:12

At wikipedia we learn it opened in 1859, closed in 1957, just a couple of years before this shot.

John Spooner

• 22/May/2023 08:28:00

Barbara Griggs mourned the passing of the Clogher Valley line in her column in Ireland's Saturday Night on Saturday 04 May 1968

I was with friends in a car coming from Enniskillen via the Clogher Valley. a region I once had a weaknoss for. I knew it when the old Clogher Valley Railway meandered through woods, on the roadside, and along streets of wee towns. Romantic, charming, and out of this world. It ran from Maguiresbridge to Tynan. There was Augher, Clogher, FivemiletwAm, Baliygawley, Caledon: all delightful wee villages. except for big Aughnacloy with its wide square. its markets, and all that, and the railway workshops down the hill. It was, so to speak. a diadem of a valley, the towns and villages strung on it like jewels. To-day? Mere unimpressive items on a wide trunk road. They'd lost their characteristic background.

Niall McAuley

• 22/May/2023 08:29:25

The 1906 railway map shows how it is the terminus of the Clogher Valley railway as well as a stop on the Dundalk to Enniskillen route. The Clogher Valley narrow gauge closed in 1942.

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 22/May/2023 09:13:43

And in July 1966 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/110691393@N07/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/110691393@N07/13886994477/in/photostream/ Wondering what happened to the telegraph/telephone poles and wires? Presumably they were still in use.

Niall McAuley

• 22/May/2023 09:20:04

A good page of pics from the Clogher railway here, with a somewhat grumpy author.

Niall McAuley

• 22/May/2023 09:21:58

https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia I imagine the poles/wires following the railway were signalling for the railway, not telephone wires.

Deirge (Del)

• 22/May/2023 09:26:07

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] Just borrowed (Thomas,The narrow gauge in Britain & Ireland,2002) and p114 has a little on the 37m long Clogher Valley which opened in May 1887 as a tramway. Stanley says it legally became a tramway in 1894 and a diesel railcar and rail lorry from Walkers of Wigan were introduced in 1928 speeding up services compared to the earlier steam. On closure the railcar went to the Donegal as No. 10 and thence to preservation at the Ulster Rail and Transport Museum as Cultra.

Niall McAuley

• 22/May/2023 09:28:20

There are two little housing estates on the site now, Railway Park and Station Park.

Niall McAuley

• 22/May/2023 09:30:35

I don't think there was a footbridge here, the PRONI historical maps just show level crossings. O'Dea must have climbed a signal post to get this angle.

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

• 22/May/2023 09:39:30

High Drama on a train in 1934 via Trove ... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168917086?searchTerm=M...

Deirge (Del)

• 22/May/2023 10:19:07

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Great find on that incident! There's a few book's I'd love to look at, particularly (Patterson, 1972), for research but (Whitehouse, Narrow gauge railways of the British Isles, 1994, p.111) contains a gem. The craic is Whitehouse notes Clogher Valley Railway ran alongside the border for most of length and was very suitable in assisting cattle smuggling which it made good money on. Whitehouse also notes "partial dieselisation" as a contributery reason for its demise.

nlpnt

• 22/May/2023 11:35:21

Tumbleweeds indeed - the lead pic could almost be a Death Valley ghost town! In color, not so much...

lonewolf77357w

• 22/May/2023 11:37:28

👍😍

O Mac

• 22/May/2023 11:54:21

The southern end of the left side platform is just about visible in Streetview. maps.app.goo.gl/bbsbDkZ14uofSM986

Deirge (Del)

• 22/May/2023 12:27:35

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] Try timewarping back to streetview 2009! : www.google.com/maps/@54.2930757,-7.4716899,3a,61.8y,354.6... And if you go up and down the road a little you can see both platforms.

John Spooner

• 22/May/2023 15:33:17

Defunct and overgrown Irish railway stations always call to mind Buggleskelly, the 'fictional' railway station to which the incompetent William Porter is appointed station master in the 1937 film "Oh! Mr Porter". On reacquainting myself with the film this afternoon I realised that when Porter is shown his new post on a map, Buggleskelly is pretty much where Maguiresbridge would be in real life. Buggleskelly station in the film: youtu.be/Y301FwN1ymw?t=1298 The Buggleskelly scenes were actually filmed at Cliddesden, south of Basingstoke in Hampshire, on a line which had already closed but before the lines had been ripped up.

O Mac

• 22/May/2023 16:26:30

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/ Madam, " Is it raining porter? Porter, " I wish it was Mam.

Deirge (Del)

• 22/May/2023 16:58:11

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Per the photos you mentioned a while back one thing to note is the enclosure around the motion and wheels of the original 0-4-2T's built by Sharp Stewart. I dug out my (Martin Bairstow, Railways in Ireland, Part 1, 2006, pp104-109) hardcopy book. Bairstow says journey time was 2h 40m for the 37 miles due to 1 in 40 and steeper gradients and tight curves requiring a 4mph speed restriction at times. The other end of the line also at Tynan was on the The Great Northern Railway of Ireland from Clones (on the Maguiresbridge to Dundalk line) to Armagh and Bairstow notes the GNR would likely be the preferred choice for anyone intending to venture from Maguiresbridge to Tynan).

suckindeesel

• 22/May/2023 17:58:14

Mot really the CV line, but actually the NIRainline station of Maguiresbridge on the Dundalk Enniskillen main line

silverio10

• 22/May/2023 21:31:51

Buena serie de fotos antiguas .

Deirge (Del)

• 22/May/2023 22:20:57

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] "Mot really the CV line, but actually the NIRainline station of Maguiresbridge on the Dundalk Enniskillen main line"? That doesn't totally make sense but if you are saying what we are seeing (or mostly seeing) in this picture is the former 5' 3" GNR(I) line from Dundalk-Clones-Maguiresbridge-Enniskillen I'd agree. (Patterson, The Great Northern Railway (Ireland), 2003) on p101 mentions Maguiresbridge got a passing loop in 1904 and on p.197 mentions connection services between the GNR(I) and the 3" CV. The caption to the picture on (Bairstow, p104) mentions the CV used the GNR station building at Maguiresbridge and also has mention of a CV engine shed there.

Deirge (Del)

• 22/May/2023 22:28:17

Ohhhh! Is that William Hemingway Mills polychromatic brick I see in that GNR(I) station building or am I deceived?

suckindeesel

• 23/May/2023 07:57:09

https://www.flickr.com/photos/196366907@N03/ Yes, that’s what I meant. The CV station was long gone when this photo was taken, it closed at the end of 1941

Deirge (Del)

• 23/May/2023 08:47:02

https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 I think Bairstow at point implied the CV used the GNR(I)'s station building. But I have a feeling (this photo is generally is generally North and the CV needs to go to North East eventually.) that they may have had their own platform, engine shed and transit shed up to the top right. I haven't seen a station map so i'm guessing. You could visit the IRRS tonight and do a sketch!

suckindeesel

• 23/May/2023 09:31:56

https://flic.kr/p/2oCjP7X 1900 - 1907 Railscot lists three ‘Maguiresbridge’ stations: GNRI, CV and Town

Deirge (Del)

• 24/May/2023 09:12:07

Thanks, that's got a clearer idea in my head about the layout. The CV came of the area to the south east (before I assuming heading North East and I assume the Maguires Green stopping place is the "Town" station on railscot. The CVR looks to have its main area to the north and east side of the GNR(I) as it would have needs to transfer goods and cattle too and from that railway. I think the evidence is begining to sway me it had its own passenger platform(s?) up towards that area as well where it says "Terminus". Thanks for that photo.