Doesn’t everybody long for that bit of nostalgia, not only for events or places in our own past but, perhaps, is there something in our DNA that makes the Irish hanker to relive the experiences of our ancestors? Visit where they came from? See the ships they sailed on? Stand on the railway platform they embarked on their initial road to immigration? One hundred years ago, the West Cork Railway was in its heyday. The political lobbying of the automobile industry has been blamed for its demise, the financially powerful road lobby was extremely successful in their movement against the Irish railways. However thanks to railway enthusiast Chris Larkin, we are now given the opportunity to go back to this railway heyday by immersing ourselves in his travelogue.
Over the last 50 years, avid collector Larkin has amassed a large collection of West Cork railway memorabilia, which he has chosen to share with us in his publication "West Cork Railways – Birth Beauty and Betrayal". Sign up to IrishCentral's newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish! Rail enthusiast and author Larkin felt the memory of the West Cork Railway was neglected. In an effort to rectify this he published "The West Cork Railways", and it has proven an excellent remedy as the railway is carefully documented in this magnificent collection of contemporary photographs and slides.
Photographs, vintage posters, postcards, color slides, tickets, advertisements and railway objects fill the pages together with h.
