The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 3 (July 2, 1928)
Railway Progress in Ireland
Railway Progress in Ireland.
In a recent work entitled “A History of Railways in Ireland” (Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., London, 15 shillings net), Mr. J. C. Conroy gives us a most able review of the Irish railways since the days when the first Act was passed giving birth to the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, in 1831. Many of the Irish railways were anything but prosperous concerns in the olden days, and most were the outcome of local interest and initiative. As recently as 1906 there were some 38 railway companies operating in Erin's Isle, with 230 directors. By degrees these small systems have been swallowed up by the larger lines, and it is only by amalgamations such as these that the Irish railways have been able to carry on with any degree of success. Mr. Conroy's work is worthy of a place in every railway library, throwing as it does much light upon railway promotion, construction, and operation in a land whose transportation affairs do not usually come into the limelight.