Taylorstown Viaduct, Co. Wexford, with CIÉ loco 077 on the Irish Rail weed spray-train, May 2017. Different brick shades indicate the rebuilt arches post-1923. #irishrailways #irishrailarchives #taylorstown #wexford
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Ireland's smallast signal cabin, Kellystown, Co. Louth (Great Northern Railway; Drogheda-Dundalk section), pictured 1969. #irishrailways #irishrailarchives [Photo © IRRS Archive / www.irrs.ie]
September 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Locomotive shed @ Athboy terminus (Midland Great Western Railway), Co. Meath, pictured 1953 / 2013. [Photo © IRRS Archive / www.irrs.ie] #irishrailarchives #irishrailways
September 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Elephants and trains together; 🐘🚂 CIÉ's "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime" slogan @ Kingsbridge (Heuston), Dublin, 1961. #ExploreYourArchive #EYAAnimals #irishrailarchives
November 29, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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CIÉ Metrovick loco A19 tackles the 'Gullet' at Islandbridge, Dublin, with a return excursion working on evening 14th June 1959, formed of 11-bogies and one 6-wheel carriage. [© IRRS Archive] #irishrailarchives
February 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Steam & diesel scene beside the turntable @ Connolly Station, with K3 Class 2-6-0 No. 462 blowing off steam in the company of CIÉ Metrovick diesel A35, 18th April 1959 [Photo ex IRRS Archive] #irishrailarchives
December 22, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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CIÉ Metrovick loco A42R departing Portlaoise with laden-beet for Thurles Sugar Factory, November 1969. [Photo © IRRS Archive] #irishrailarchives #CIÉ #portlaoise
September 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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35mm-negatives from the #archive of the huge cement-silo being craned into position @ Kent Station, Cork, part of CIÉ's freight modernisation. 🏗️👷 #EYAHuge #ExploreYourArchive #irishrailarchives
November 24, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Cold winter’s night in Portarlington, Co. Laois, with a #WarmFire glowing nicely onboard Midland Great Western Railway No. 583, pictured on sugar-beet duties in the Midlands. #ArchivesAdventCalendar #irishrailarchives #ExploreYourArchive🔥🚂❄️
December 17, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Loco 464 on the streets of Cork City on #stpatricksday 1961 with the IRRS railtour to the West Cork Railways [© Graham Hoare/IRRS Archive] #irishrailarchives
March 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Another CIÉ "SuperTrain" publicity booklet, featuring the new AC MkII carriages and A Class locomotive in the Avoca Valley, Co. Wicklow, circa 1973. #irishrailarchives #irishrailways www.irrs.ie
September 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Welcome everyone and thanks to those who have followed me here, looking forward to sharing more #archives from Irish Railways.😊 #irishrailarchives
November 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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DUNDALK "Central Signal Cabin", pictured newly constructed circa 1900. Digitised print ex-IRRS Archive. #irishrailarchives
February 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Your #tiny pocket-sized "ABC of IRISH LOCOMOTIVES"; princely sum of 2-shillings published 1949 by Ian Allan.🚂 #irishrailarchives #ExploreYourArchive
November 23, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Contrasting fashions styles for CIÉ train hosts between 1980s corporate era and the European style gendarme hat and red uniform of the 1970s. #EYAFashion #ExploreYourArchive #irishrailarchives
November 25, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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CIÉ "SuperTrain" publicity poster for the new Mk2 carriages, pictured @ Killiney, Co. Dublin, circa 1973. #irishrailarchives #irishrailways #killiney
August 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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CIÉ loco 051 climbs towards Claude Road, Drumcondra, working the return Belfast Guinness liner on the evening of 15th July 1982; 35mm-slide by Brian McCann. [©IRRS Archive] #irishrailarchives
February 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Past/Present view of Laffansbridge Station, Co. Tipperary, closed 1967, featured in this 35mm-film ex IRRS Archive @ rb.gy/buixcx #irishrailarchives
January 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Archive film compiled by Tony Price of the Western Rail Corridor during the mid-1970s, which I have digitised/edited from the IRRS Archive @ youtu.be/K5hZqQKBfjA?... #irishrailarchives
May 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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CIÉ Maybach E425 shunts Guinness wagons @ Islandbridge, Dublin, while locos 124+127 head for Heuston to work the 19:30 to Westport on 30 July 1982 [slide donated to IRRS Archive by Brian McCann] #irishrailarchives
February 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Archive clips of sugar-beet trains @ Midleton/Glounthaune, Co. Cork, filmed by Joe St Leger c1980s. #irishrailarchives
March 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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CIÉ track-lifting operations on the North Wexford Railway, between Sparrowland/Macmine Junction; 8mm-film from Tony Price/IRRS Archive. #irishrailarchives
June 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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CIÉ loco A21 tries out the new washer @ Inchicore Works, Dublin, March 1957. [Print digitised ex-IRRS Archive] #irishrailarchives
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Mallow-Waterford railway scenery; filmed by the late Tony Price prior to closure, March 1967. 🚊🎥 [©IRRS Archive] #irishrailarchives #Mallow #Waterford #irishrailways #archives
May 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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CIÉ locomotive 033 enters Howth Junction with the 15:09 to Dublin Connolly on a summers day, July 1984. [35mm-slide © IRRS Archive] #irishrailarchives
March 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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