Introduction
Ireland was blessed with an extensive collection of 3' Gauge
Tramways and Light Railways, carrying both goods and passengers,
mostly drawn by steam power.
Whether you are an enthusiast, modeller or historian, I hope
that these pages will serve as a useful index to the material that
is available concerning these lines.
Acknowledgements
- Nigel Simon: for
photos of Raphoe station and crossing and Lifford bridge.
- Matthew Labine: for
corrections to wheel diameters of WCR Locomotives
- Graham Liddy:
for a list of books, and information on the Dublin & Lucan
Tramway
- Joe Begley: for lists of published drawings, and scans
of CDRJC tickets
- Belturbet
Station Project: for photographs
- McElhinney
Properties: for photographs.
Navigation
Start with contents , or click
on the section you want in the bar on the right.
The pages are profusely cross-linked, and every page has a link
back to the Contents page in the top-right, and a link to this page
under the graphic in the top left.
Book citations
Book citations occur in brackets [], with the abbreviated book
title, a colon and one or more citation details separated by
spaces. Each citation detail consists of three or four parts
separated by hyphens '-'.
The first part is the citation type
- a - assorted (a collection of more than one ofthe types
below)
- b - black & white photograph
- c - color photograph
- d - diagram, (track)
- e - engineering (scale) drawing
- k - sketch
- m - map
- n - narrative text
- t - table
The second part is the citation size in negative powers of two
of a square metre, just like european paper: so -4 is an A4
illustration (8-1/2 x 11"), and -6 is postcard sized. Text is also
given as a ratio of the whole page, down to a minimum of 1/8 (-3)
below the size of the page. The third part is the page number
(e.g.: p327), or an abbreviation such as ep (endpaper), or dj
(dustjacket), fc (front cover), or tp (title page). The fourth
part, if present is the date.
Dates
Dates are given in years (yyyy), or year and month (yyyy.mm), or
year/month/day (yyyy.mm.dd). Where a number is doubtful, a leading
'?' is prepended. Where a series of numbers or text is doubtful, a
leading '?' followed by a space, brackets the doubtful text up to
the next '?'.
Offsite Links
Offsite links are indicated by a red triangle ( ).
Gaelic
Some place names are followed by their Gaelic names in braces{}.
You will need a gaelic font for these to render correctly. Suitable
fonts are:
- Windows ttf format:
- Bunchló, available from:
 Vincent
Morley
or locally: bunchlo.zip
Where are the pictures?
I have very few. Links to pages with photos have a  before them.
In the meantime, here are some sites with pictures:
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