Kilfree Junction, Co. Sligo - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
A man pushing a steam train round a turntable...Date: May 1960..NLI Ref.: ODEA20/12 ( vtls000148330 )
Filming at Westland Row Station
No idea what film this was, but there are the film crew doing their stuff at Westland Row Train Station, now Pearse Station, in Dublin...Date: Friday, 24 June 1960..NLI Ref.: ODEA 20/89A ( vtls000306127 )
February 14, 1963, Leinster, Ireland
A sad parade of engines going for scrap, we think. Photographer James O'Dea, who took this photo at Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, counts them as 16...According to RETRO STU ( 23885771@N03/ ) , the "old crane gantry... More
March 12, 1960, Leinster, Ireland
We thought this was the view from a railway signal box at a Church Road in Roscommon, and as there are quite a few Church Roads in County Roscommon, we asked for help. Apparently, ask and you shall receive beca... More
March 30, 1961, Leinster, Ireland
P. McCormick (Paddy?) captured in the Signal Cabin at Leixlip, Co. Kildare at 5.45 - though not sure whether it was morning or evening...Date: Thursday, 30 March 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 24/90 ( vtls000305431 )
Locomotive Filling her up, Public domain image
This is engine 207 (aka Boyne) at Conniberry, Co. Laois. According to our catalogue, this picture was taken while 207 was "getting coal supplies". However, the consensus from comments below is that it is water ... More
Wash and brush-up for Loco 42… - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
… at Broadstone Station in Dublin, less than a month before the station closed. ( nlireland/6294892134 ) ..Date: Sunday, 12 March 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA24/85 ( vtls000148498 )
Locomotive October 26, 1963, Public domain image
Locomotives B114 and A37 at the Inchicore Works, Dublin...Date: 26 October 1963..NLI Ref.: ODEA37/49 ( vtls000148624 )
September 23, 1963 - A black and white photo of a man in a train car
This is J. Hannigan operating the signal levers in Sallins North signal box, Sallins, Co. Kildare...Date: 23 September 1963..NLI Ref.: ODEA37/42 ( vtls000148623 )
April 17, 1962, Leinster, Ireland
Apologies, people! Not a great photo for today's Pic of the Day, but there were slim pickings for photos taken on 17th April in the vaults of Library Towers...Anyway, this is the 225 - up train to Sligo, pictur... More
April 16, 1960, Leinster, Ireland
A lovely capture of Mr McCollins, Station Master at Hazelhatch, Co. Kildare at 3.55 p.m. (or more correctly in railway time 15:55)...Date: Saturday, 16 April 1960..NLI Ref.: ODEA 19/92 ( vtls000304958 )
Locomotive Tamping machine, Public domain image
"Tamping machine, Barretstown, Co. Kilkenny"..Granted it required a Google search to find even the basics of what a "tamper" does, but am still none-the-wiser as to the purpose of the device that seems to be pr... More
Train crossing street, Fermoy, Co. Cork.
Photographer: James P. O'Dea. .Collection: James P. O'Dea ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000148612 ) . .Date: November 10 1966. .NLI Ref.: ODEA 42/97 ( vtls000306838 ) . .You can also view this image,... More
At Thurles Railway Station, Co. Tipperary
This is driver Tom Crowe on the right. Unfortunately we don't know his buddy's name, yet!..Date: Sunday, 24 July 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 26/61 ( vtls000305595 )
Locomotive That's some test run..., Public domain image
A girl surveys the wreckage and clean up operation after a train crash at Newbridge, Co. Kildare...Date: Friday, 7 September 1962..NLI Ref.: ODEA32/68 ( vtls000148548 )
November 3, 1960 - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
This is Foreman P. Doherty working on Engine 123 at Ballybrophy, Co. Laois. A bright sunny day in early November by the looks of the shadows...Date: 3 November 1960..NLI Ref.: ODEA 22/70 ( vtls000305221 )
An Inspection Car at Straffan Train Station
An Inspection Car at Straffan Train Station, Co. Kildare...Date: Friday, 31 March 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 24/92 ( vtls000305433 )
April 10, 1965, Leinster, Ireland
Fred McDonagh in his Signal Cabin, Enfield, Co. Meath at 1.55 p.m...We got some lovely information on Fred from his grandson Traingraham:."A wonderfull photo of my Grandad, he was just after moving from Moyvall... More
March 31, 1961, Leinster, Ireland
An Inspection Car at Straffan Train Station, Co. Kildare...Date: Friday, 31 March 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 24/92 ( vtls000305433 )
February 10, 1967 - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Stopping at Mallow North Junction, Co. Cork for today's Pic of the Day. This includes some random birds perching on the telegraph pole, and I think one in the bare branches of a tree. Oddly enough, it's very ra... More
Train station January 12, 1959 - Public domain photograph.
Our Pic of the Day for New Year's Eve was the last train ever to run from Harcourt Street Station ( nlireland/6606631529/in/photostream ) in Dublin on 31 December 1958. This photo was taken 13 days later and s... More
November 22, 1960 - A black and white photo of a train station
Clones Train Station, Co. Monaghan, caught in mid-demolition by photographer James O'Dea. This was No. 1 Platform, the side with a Refreshment Room and Gentlemen's Toilets...According to Wikipedia, the Great No... More
Locomotive That's some test run..., Public domain image
A girl surveys the wreckage and clean up operation after a train crash at Newbridge, Co. Kildare...Date: Friday, 7 September 1962..NLI Ref.: ODEA32/68 ( vtls000148548 )
December 28, 1959 - A black and white photo of a man in a suit
Presenting the gloriously named Bill Biggs and friend at the door of his signal box at Castleblayney East, Co. Monaghan...Date: 28 December 1959..NLI Ref.: ODEA 18/9 ( vtls000304777 )
Kilfree Junction, Co. Sligo - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
A man pushing a steam train round a turntable...Date: May 1960..NLI Ref.: ODEA20/12 ( vtls000148330 )
January 16, 1963 Limerick, Ireland
Please meet Mr Dan Hempenstall, who was foreman at C.I.É.'s Limerick Works (Railway), pictured in the Wagon Shop...Need help with the location of this photo also, please...Date: Wednesday, 16 January 1963..NLI ... More
Bantry Bay Steamship Company Office
Following on from the Adrigole Pier ( nlireland/8547179579/ ) photo posted this morning, Tin of beansasked to see this photo entitled "Old notice of Bantry Bay steamship company, Glengarriff, Co. Cork."..Not a... More
Sidings at Maynooth? No - it's Cork!
Shome mishtake shurely?..This was described in our catalogue as Up mail & 6.15 Sligo crossing up overload in refuge siding, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Wasn't at all convinced that Maynooth really had a big siding a... More
April 24, 1960, Leinster, Ireland
This fine trio are Mr J. Malone and his son, accompanied by their terrier who was in full voice by the looks of things, all pictured at Ashtown Train Station, Dublin. The photographer James O'Dea had obviously ... More
Train station March 23, 1963 - Public domain photograph.
This is Mrs Lawlor, pictured at Borris Train Station in Co. Carlow. She has a friendly, but compelling gaze...This photo was taken just days before this train station closed forever on 1 April 1963...Thanks to ... More
February 13, 1971, Athlone West, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Clean up following the derailment of the 7.30 Sligo goods train at the 46 mile signal cabin, Co. Westmeath...Searched some newspapers online for a story about this derailment, but to no avail, so grateful thank... More
January 29, 1959 - A black and white photo of a man looking out of a w...
This is signalman Alby Maher (Albert ( http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IrelandGenWeb/2005-11/1131742093 ) ) pictured at Goold's Cross, Co. Tipperary...Thanks to Billy14477 for this information: "A... More
December 5, 1961 - A black and white photo of a train on the tracks
This is the train station at the gloriously named Horse and Jockey, Co. Tipperary. There's something a little bleak about this photo, perhaps the bare trees in the depths of winter... Anyway, this station was o... More
Instruments at Clonsilla, Co. Dublin...
... in the signal box presumably. It would be lovely to get a name and a use for all of these things...Photographer: James P. O'Dea ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Author/Home?author=O'Dea,+James+P.+1910-1992+photogr... More
Locomotive October 26, 1963, Public domain image
Locomotives B114 and A37 at the Inchicore Works, Dublin...Date: 26 October 1963..NLI Ref.: ODEA37/49 ( vtls000148624 )
Locomotive Filling her up, Public domain image
This is engine 207 (aka Boyne) at Conniberry, Co. Laois. According to our catalogue, this picture was taken while 207 was "getting coal supplies". However, the consensus from comments below is that it is water ... More
Christy Mahon on the phone, Leinster, Ireland
Our regular roving railway reporter Flying Snail ( flyingsnail/ ) asked for some help, and I was happy to oblige. He's nearing the end of his college work (a photographic project on the former railways in Co. ... More
March 19, 1961, Cork, Ireland
Bill County taking a breather in the Signal Cabin, Albert Quay in Cork city at around 10.55 by the look of the clock...Date: Sunday, 19 March 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 24/58 ( vtls000305401 )
Bantry Bay Steamship Company Office
Following on from the Adrigole Pier ( nlireland/8547179579/ ) photo posted this morning, Tin of beansasked to see this photo entitled "Old notice of Bantry Bay steamship company, Glengarriff, Co. Cork."..Not a... More
March 14, 1961, Leinster, Ireland
These gentlemen are D. O'Sullivan and T. Miller, and the photo was taken at Kingsbridge (now Heuston) Train Station in Dublin. The photo was taken at around 1.48 p.m. or 13:48 to use train time...Flying Snail (... More
Shame we couldn't call these ClareMorris Minors!
Cars and vans being transported across the country by train, taken from the footbridge at Claremorris Railway Station in Co. Mayo...Photographer: James P. O'Dea ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Author/Home?author=O'De... More
January 29, 1959 - A black and white photo of a man looking out of a w...
This is signalman Alby Maher (Albert ( http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IrelandGenWeb/2005-11/1131742093 ) ) pictured at Goold's Cross, Co. Tipperary...Thanks to Billy14477 for this information: "A... More
April 21, 1961, Leinster, Ireland
Couldn't resist a photo of someone called Rusty, so here is railwayman Rusty Kelly beside his Signal Frame at Lucan South, Dublin...Date: Friday, 21 April 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 25/51 ( vtls000305490 )
Locomotive February 24, 1961, Public domain image
Going mad altogether today by adding two photos taken on 24 February...This one is of a new General Motors diesel locomotive on trial at Nesbitt Junction, near Enfield in Meath...Back on 4 January, the Pic of t... More
December 25, 1959 - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
This is the steam boat train crossing the pier at Dun Laoghaire, Dublin on Christmas Day, 1959...Date: 25 December 1959..NLI Ref.: ODEA17/97 ( vtls000148319 )
February 10, 1967 - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
Stopping at Mallow North Junction, Co. Cork for today's Pic of the Day. This includes some random birds perching on the telegraph pole, and I think one in the bare branches of a tree. Oddly enough, it's very ra... More
Emptying her out - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
And here is engine 207 (aka Boyne) at Amiens Street Station (now Connolly Station) in Dublin, being emptied of cinders, clinkers, ash.....Date: Sunday, 21 June 1964..NLI Ref.: ODEA 39/38 ( vtls000306968 )
Building Bridges, Leinster, Ireland
A very early O'Dea photo, allegedly from November 1936. I'm not convinced about that month, unless it was unseasonably warm for the time of year. That looks like summer clobber on the local children who had gat... More
October 14, 1959 Tullamore Ireland
CIÉ truck loading material into a train wagon at Tullamore, Co. Offaly - could perhaps be agricultural material.....If James O'Dea had waited one more second, we could have seen all of the terrier at left...Dat... More
Train crossing street, Fermoy, Co. Cork.
Photographer: James P. O'Dea. .Collection: James P. O'Dea ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000148612 ) . .Date: November 10 1966. .NLI Ref.: ODEA 42/97 ( vtls000306838 ) . .You can also view this image,... More
October 14, 1959 Tullamore Ireland
CIÉ truck loading material into a train wagon at Tullamore, Co. Offaly - could perhaps be agricultural material.....If James O'Dea had waited one more second, we could have seen all of the terrier at left...Dat... More
Railway Footbridge at Churchtown, Dublin
One of our Flickr regulars, Niall McAuley ( gnmcauley/ ) , requested this photo from our O'Dea Collection. He thought from our catalogue description that it might be beside his old primary school in Dublin, but... More
February 15, 1970 - A black and white photo of two men in a bus
This is train driver Phil Lyons, captured in action at Westport, Co. Mayo. Phil's companion in the cab is P.J. or Paddy Currivan, former chairman and trustee of the Irish Railway Record Society...Date: Sunday,... More
April 10, 1965, Leinster, Ireland
Fred McDonagh in his Signal Cabin, Enfield, Co. Meath at 1.55 p.m...We got some lovely information on Fred from his grandson Traingraham:."A wonderfull photo of my Grandad, he was just after moving from Moyvall... More
March 19, 1961, Cork, Ireland
Bill County taking a breather in the Signal Cabin, Albert Quay in Cork city at around 10.55 by the look of the clock...As Niall McAuley ( /photos/gnmcauley/ ) tells us, this signal cabin was likely the one bas... More
December 24, 1960, Leinster, Ireland
Taken on Christmas Eve, 1960, in the Signal Cabin at Clondalkin, Co. Dublin...Date: 24 December 1960..NLI Ref.: ODEA 22/100 ( vtls000305250 )
April 24, 1960, Leinster, Ireland
This fine trio are Mr J. Malone and his son, accompanied by their terrier who was in full voice by the looks of things, all pictured at Ashtown Train Station, Dublin. The photographer James O'Dea had obviously ... More
January 14, 1967, Leinster, Ireland
Four wheel bulk cement wagons (nicknamed "Bubbles") at Kildare Train Station. See the comments below for a ton of information from Flying Snail ( flyingsnail/ ) on these Bubbles.....Ellen-Mai contributed that ... More
Train station Maynooth Railway Station - Public domain photograph.
Uploading this one at the request of PaganTree ( 88162413@N06/ ) who wanted to see the train station at Maynooth, Co. Kildare from our fantastic O'Dea Collection...P.S. Love to get requests!..Date: Friday, 7 S... More
Locomotive April 28, 1959, Public domain image
So many of our train shots show gleaming metal and shining livery, that we thought you might like this stripped back view inside the belly of the beast, with a shot of a train engine in the repair shop at (we t... More
April 22, 1961 - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
An engine (CIE 171) going onto a turn table at Dundalk, Co. Louth...Flying Snail ( flyingsnail/ ) told us:."In the background is the GNR's 'general stores' building, which is a little run down these days. A lo... More
March 30, 1961, Leinster, Ireland
P. McCormick (Paddy?) captured in the Signal Cabin at Leixlip, Co. Kildare at 5.45 - though not sure whether it was morning or evening...Date: Thursday, 30 March 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 24/90 ( vtls000305431 )
Locomotive April 28, 1959, Public domain image
So many of our train shots show gleaming metal and shining livery, that we thought you might like this stripped back view inside the belly of the beast, with a shot of a train engine in the repair shop at (we t... More
Christy Mahon in pensive pose, Leinster, Ireland
Our regular roving railway reporter Flying Snail ( flyingsnail/ ) asked for some help, and I was happy to oblige. He's nearing the end of his college work (a photographic project on the former railways in Co. ... More
April 21, 1961, Leinster, Ireland
Couldn't resist a photo of someone called Rusty, so here is railwayman Rusty Kelly beside his Signal Frame at Lucan South, Dublin...Date: Friday, 21 April 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 25/51 ( vtls000305490 )
Locomotive March 27, 1959, Public domain image
Men working in the aftermath of a derailment at Hybla/Ballyneage, Co. Kildare that happened on Thursday, 26 March 1959...Next day's Irish Times reported:."The main line to the South of Ireland was blocked yeste... More
Locomotive January 4, 1961, Public domain image
This is General Motors or GM diesel locomotive B124 being unloaded from a ship at the North Wall in Dublin following its arrival on a ship from America...Thanks to Seuss. ( 90124154@N00/ ) for this link to ton... More
March 27, 1959, Leinster, Ireland
Men working in the aftermath of a derailment at Hybla/Ballyneage, Co. Kildare that happened on Thursday, 26 March 1959...Next day's Irish Times reported:."The main line to the South of Ireland was blocked yeste... More
Locomotive December 19, 1959, Public domain image
This is Driver Joe beside his train at Monaghan Railway Station. This train was an Irish Railway Records Society Special Train, and you can see members of the Society fanning out over the tracks in the backgrou... More
December 24, 1960, Leinster, Ireland
Taken on Christmas Eve, 1960, in the Signal Cabin at Clondalkin, Co. Dublin...Date: 24 December 1960..NLI Ref.: ODEA 22/100 ( vtls000305250 )
April 16, 1960, Leinster, Ireland
A lovely capture of Mr McCollins, Station Master at Hazelhatch, Co. Kildare at 3.55 p.m. (or more correctly in railway time 15:55)...Date: Saturday, 16 April 1960..NLI Ref.: ODEA 19/92 ( vtls000304958 )
March 11, 1961, Dublin, Ireland
Foreman John Casey at Inchicore Railway Works, Dublin...Date: Saturday, 11 March 1961..NLI Ref.: ODEA 23/80 ( vtls000305329 )
February 26, 1967, Leinster, Ireland
Men working hard on a Sunday to relay the south crossover on the railway line at Hazelhatch, Co. Kildare...Thanks to Salmon Leap (hope to be back in March) ( 32428096@N05/ ) and Flying Snail ( flyingsnail/ ) ... More
December 22, 1962, Leinster, Ireland
Apologies for quality, but there were slim pickings in our collections for a photo taken on this day!..Anyway, this is a new GM (General Motors) locomotive taken at Straffan, Co. Kildare. Think it was the down ... More
December 7, 1960 - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
A shunt at Athlone East Junction, Westmeath on a gloriously sunny winter's day - bet it was freezing cold though. They're not easy to spot, but there're three men in the cab of the engine. Originally asked for ... More
November 26, 1963 - A black and white photo of a train on the tracks
A lifting train at Kilkenny Train Station, pulled by Locomotive C205. The shadows would suggest it was a sunny day in Kilkenny 48 years ago today...Thanks to Salmon Leap ( 32428096@N05/ ) for the information t... More