tarboat's photos with the keyword: dublin

The tower at Cabras adjacent to Broombridge in Dublin was supplied with water from the Royal Canal. Whilst the tower survives there is very little to see of the pumping engine house which was next to it. The remains of a water column are evident at the side of the railway.

Situated at Ringsend in Dublin the Poolbeg power station, colloquially known as The Poolbeg Stacks, is a power station owned and operated by the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland (ESB). There are two stations on the site, the older thermal station containing units 1, 2, and 3 and the combined cycle gas station containing units CG14, CG15 and ST16, which is located toward the eastern end of the site. The six units had a total installed capacity of 1020 MW. The thermal station, fired by either oil or gas, was closed in 2010 which reduced capacity by 461 MW. The landmark chimneys were listed as protected structures in 2014.

Back in the days when Irish Railways had lots of locomotives. Taken looking back from a train just after departing Dublin Heuston -the line off left goes to Phoenix Park Tunnel and on to Dublin Connolly.

DART 29113 departs Broombridge Station for Dublin

In 1861 the London and North Western Railway Company (LNWR) which had been operating a steam packet service across the Irish Sea, moved its Irish terminus from Kingstown (Dun Laoghaoire) to North Wall Quay in Dublin. In 1883 the company bought the Prince of Wales Hotel, and soon afterwards replaced it with the London and North Western Hotel. This is LNWR picked out in the terracotta on this former railway hotel at North Wall, Dublin. It is very rare to find a British railway company on buildings in Ireland. I believe that this is one of only three examples.

The Dublin based flour dynasty erected the stone portions of their mills in the nineteenth century, overlooking the Grand Canal's Ringsend Basin. These structures gained fame due to being occupied by Nationalist forces during the 1916 Easter uprising. The concrete silos were added in the 1940s. Taken over by food giant IAWS in 1948, production finally ended in 2001. The site has stood derelict since then awaiting redevelopment.

My first visit to the Irish Republic came in May 1982 and having travelled overnight from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire it was a case of catching the train which turned out to comprise a motley collection of coaches and a generator van hauled by this C class BoBo. Seen here on arrival at Dublin Connolly this locomotive was one of a batch supplied by Metropolitan Vickers in 1956 from their Dukinfield works. Originally powered by a Crossley ESTV8, the engine proved to be unreliable and they were eventually replaced with General Motors power units by CIÉ at Inchicore Works, Dublin.

The old gasworks site has been transformed with the development of a large modern apartment complex. The only reminder of the previous use is this conversion of this gasholder into apartments. The framework has the name 'S Cutter & Sons Contractors London 1885' cast into the uprights. The developer took deposits on many of the apartments but has subsequently returned them and none has been occupied. There is now a planning application to convert the building to a 520 bed hotel.