Talk:History of rail transport in Ireland

message: A timeline of rail transport series of documents has been created, currently with little content. Please help out (not least since all but 3 "events" are US based). You know the drill: births & deaths, dates of key bits of infrastructure & acts / openings / amalgamations / closures / accidents &c. --Tagishsimon (talk)
:The root category is now . Slambo (Speak) 18:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:Timeline of rail transport]]

message: I am starting to rewrite parts of this article, since it leaves out many of the main railway lines operating in Ireland at the time specified. I am using the Railway Year Book for 1912 as my guide. I also feel that the paragraph discussing the overall picture of transport prior to the railways is a far too sketchy:
* canal transport had made big inroads in the carrying of freight long before the railways: two big canal projects were underway in the late 18th century
* mail coaches run by the General Post Office and others far preceded (by well over 100 years!) those "horse-car" services of Charles Bianconi (who himself was only one of many, and operated mostly in the south)
* I don't believe that the Irish hoi poloi were sedentary (= doing things sitting down): they worked liked mad in agriculture. The roads created by the mail coaches had already got people travelling between centres of population
* the article itself says that the Dublin and Kingstown railway was opened in 1834, so what's this about the Waterford line?
* all railways are "held up by legislation" - you can't open one without an Act of Parliament
Peter Shearan 09:55, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: This article

message: Else where is says that the Dublin and Drogheda Railway used 5 ft. 2 in. not 5 ft. 3 in !
Please explain!
Tabletop 23:58, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the D&DR was initially laid using a track gauge of 5 ft 2 in. Have amended the article. -- Picapica 12:39, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gauges 

message: Great Northern of Ireland Railway
Ought this not to be Great Northern Railway of Ireland? -- Picapica 12:11, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have checked a extensive list of railway companies of Ireland and cannot find this abbreviation, assume that it is a abbreviation with a foreign twist "Great Northern Railway (Ireland)", for instance . Djegan 18:34, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNR(I) 

message: There is a discrepancy in the lines distance on this page (37.5 miles) and the main Tralee and Dingle Light Railway page (31 miles). Does anyone have the correct distance? ww2censor 16:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tralee and Dingle Light Railway 

message: Does anybody know wether the Dublin tramway (Luas) has the broad gauge og Irish railways (1600 mm) or normal gauge (1435 mm). I was there and saw it but opposite to what I had expected I didn't think it looked broader than normal gauge. 85.8.0.197 21:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No - it was to enable tighter turns and a narrower loading gauge to use less road space. Rolling stock for Irish broad gauge railways is not really much more than for standard gauge, as it's the same stock used (e.g the late 1980s carriages are British Mark IIIs), but with different bogies (the bits under the front and back of the carriages that have the wheels). zoney  ♣ talk 12:47, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

text: All very compelling reasons undoubtably, however I still think the choice of gauge was to allow the purchase of a standard product, i.e. the Citadis tram Suckindiesel 19:37, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gauge of Dublin tramway 

message: I'd have mentioned this under the former stations talk section but nobody checks that. Does anyone know if this is a former station? You might have to click back to the 2009 satellite image. 54.604976°N 5.831997°W --76.115.67.114 (talk) 05:58, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Former stations?

message: I've changed the gauge to Irish gauge as I can't see any reason for it being Stephenson gauge. The Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway article states Irish gauge. If anyone can prove otherwise, please change both places... Peridon (talk) 12:53, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  SL&NC 

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