Railways in Ireland, 1906

The above should be of profound interest to anyone who’s looking for solutions to the climate crisis. If they could do it in 1906, we can do it now.

Below are zoomed-in versions on each of the four provinces. But first, a map of today’s rail network for comparison. The comparison is not entirely fair as DART and Luas don’t feature on it. Even allowing for that, the contrast is striking.

From Irishrail.ie

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  1. The most denuded regions were in west and mid-Ulster (Cloghet Valley, Londonderry and Lough Swilly) because the six county statelet had no interest in the west of its territory

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