tarboat's photos with the keyword: clones

At the back of the former Great Northern Railway of Ireland twelve road locomotive shed at Clones in County Monaghan. Built in 1925 it closed with then railway in 1959 and the premises were subsequently modified and used by a company that constructed tank containers. Around 2003 this business got into financial difficulties and the works has since been used for steel fabrication although that appears to have come to an end in the loco shed building. At the back of the roundhouse the steel fabrication work was extended into this corrugated lean-to structure. The pipework is for extraction from the bays that were used for paint spraying and shotblasting.

Inside the old roundhouse the stalls where the locomotives were stabled have been converted for engineering use.

The Great Northern Railway of Ireland constructed a twelve road locomotive shed at Clones in County Monaghan in 1925. This was the first of its type in Ireland and comprised a reinforced concrete structure to a design by the Indented Bar Company of London. It curves through 130 degrees and had 12 radial bays to contain the locomotives. The railway closed in 1959 and the premises were subsequently modified and used by a company that constructed tank containers. Around 2003 this business got into financial difficulties and the works has since been used for steel fabrication although that appears to have come to an end in the loco shed building. There was a slightly later and identical example at Portadown in County Armagh, but this has been demolished.