If I have things rightly: matters to do with railways now in the Irish Republic, belong in the "International Transport" forum.
A thing which I had never found cause to wonder about before: the link line in Dublin between Pearse Station (ex-Westland Row), formerly of the Dublin & South Eastern Railway; and Connolly Station (ex-Amiens Street), formerly of the Great Northern; with connections also to rail routes running westward from the city. Before formation of Ireland's Great Southern Railways in 1925, the lines referred-to, were known as the City of Dublin Junction Railway -- which is pretty well all that I had hitherto known about them.
Applying to Google, elicited little information: basically, that the above link under the above name was opened in 1891; and by implication, its having had close associations withe the Dublin & South Eastern Railway. Can kind persons enlighten further? -- was the CoDJR a "de jure" independent railway undertaking (if that were the case, I find it hard to imagine its "de facto" owning and operating its own locomotives and rolling stock); or nominally independent, but for practical purposes part of, and worked as part of, one of the bigger companies; or officially jointly owned and worked by whichever of the bigger companies; or something else beyond my imagining?
A thing which I had never found cause to wonder about before: the link line in Dublin between Pearse Station (ex-Westland Row), formerly of the Dublin & South Eastern Railway; and Connolly Station (ex-Amiens Street), formerly of the Great Northern; with connections also to rail routes running westward from the city. Before formation of Ireland's Great Southern Railways in 1925, the lines referred-to, were known as the City of Dublin Junction Railway -- which is pretty well all that I had hitherto known about them.
Applying to Google, elicited little information: basically, that the above link under the above name was opened in 1891; and by implication, its having had close associations withe the Dublin & South Eastern Railway. Can kind persons enlighten further? -- was the CoDJR a "de jure" independent railway undertaking (if that were the case, I find it hard to imagine its "de facto" owning and operating its own locomotives and rolling stock); or nominally independent, but for practical purposes part of, and worked as part of, one of the bigger companies; or officially jointly owned and worked by whichever of the bigger companies; or something else beyond my imagining?
