1846 – Engine Shed, Irish Rail Works, Inchicore, Dublin
Inchicore Works is the headquarters for Mechanical Engineering and Rolling Stock maintenance in Irish Rail. Established in 1846,
Inchicore Works is the headquarters for Mechanical Engineering and Rolling Stock maintenance in Irish Rail. Established in 1846,
Formerly Kingsbridge Station and one of Dublin’s original railway termini, Heuston Station was commissioned in 1846 from Sancton Wood,
Designed by Captain William S. Moorsom and built a year later in a modified form by Sancton Wood,
Originally a station on the Great Southern and Western Railway, Portlaoise Railway Station cost upwards of £5,000 to build.
Fine picturesque railway station for the Great Southern by Sancton Wood. Wood designed many of the stations on the line below Kildare and before Limerick.
The station opened on 26 June 1847, and was designed by Sanction Wood in a picturesque Gothic style for Great Southern &
Wonderful symmetrical composition with a stationmaster’s house in the upper floor of the central building. His quarters have a small balcony over the ticket hall.The building suffers visually from the large expanse of tarmacadam out front.
Opened on the 28th of August 1858 replacing an earlier, temporary station some 500m further east,