Sorrento Terace and Dalkey island around 1910
(via Photos Of Dublin)
To which Stephen Devine twadds…
Then and now…
Tag Archives: railway
The fire on Bray Head is under control unfortunately damage has been caused to railway infrastructure by the fire which is being assessed by Irish Rail.@IrishRail @GreystonesCC @wicklowcoco @BrayTCouncil #bray #WICKLOW @aaroadwatch @GardaTraffic pic.twitter.com/a4eytdpibg
— Wicklow Fire Service (@FireWicklow) July 13, 2018
Fire Crew from Greystones working hard to fully extinguish fire close to rail line on Bray Head. The fire started in front of a tent and spread along steep ground east of the cliff walk at around 1 a.m. #bray @BrayTCouncil @GreystonesCC @IrishRail #Wildfire pic.twitter.com/xL8at32arE
— Wicklow Fire Service (@FireWicklow) July 13, 2018
Update: Line between Bray and Greystones expected to remain closed for the remainder of the day due to fire damage to signalling and telecoms cabling. Bus transfers btwn Bray/Greystones for Rosslare services. Dublin accepting rail tickets https://t.co/O2Ikl1oy2H
— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) July 13, 2018
This morning.
On Bray Head in Co Wicklow.
Emergency services (second picture) at the scene of a fire which broke out on Bray Head this morning (top) which has caused damage to railway infrastructure – forcing the line between Bray and Greystones to be closed for the rest of the day.
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
Luke Brennan writes:
Was just looking at the online pictorial archives and saw this beauty. It even has Dalkey’s ill-fated atmospheric railway marked, which is a story in itself.
Andrew Wilcox’s portrait of Bruce Zaccagnino and the nearly 4,800m³ railway diorama he’s built over the last four years at his Flemington New Jersey home.
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The Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (‘Little Belt Railway’) in Paris, built in 1852, largely abandoned since 1935 (aside from one increasingly underused section), lovingly documented since 2011 by photographer Pierre Folk.
As local developers eyeball the land for new apartments and office blocks, Parisian railway enthusiasts want it preserved, possibly transformed into a series of urban parkways like the nearby Promenade Plantée which inspired New York’s High Line.
Japanese artist Akihiro Morohoshi has spent years creating detailed miniature railroad dioramas. Lately he’s taken to embedding these whimsical scenes on everyday objects.
More at his website where he also offers custom commissions.
Previously: Tiny Dramas
A railcar designed for burning off trackside weeds photographed in June 1941 by Luis Marden in Texas from the National Geographic archive.