Irish Railways since 1916.

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8vo., 224pp., illustrated with b/w photographs, appendices, bibliography & index, original green cloth lettered in silver. A near fine copy in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper. Few countries could have contained such a variety of railways as the Emerald Isle, not only five major systems but also innumerable minor lines, mostly narrow-gauge and with such oddities as the Listowel and Ballybunnion monorail, almost without parallel in their fascinating characteristics. Full details of their stock are included, also that of the major lines. The book describes how Chief Mechanical Engineers of such a railway as the the Great Southern had to keep their locomotives, coaches and wagons at work on such a financial shoestring that complete breakdown was often not far away. We also learn how in later years the railway system of Ulster might well have closed down altogether but for the fact that wiser counsels eventually prevailed. Not only is this book a history of Irish Railways, but also a fascinating study of Ireland itself, through all the troubled periods in that country from the 1916 Easter Rebellion. N° de ref. del artículo 3545

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