On track - Norman Freeman on the men who built the railways [The Irish Times]





Date: 07/03/2021

An Irishmans Diary. Railways being laid down in the early to mid-19th century Ireland were places of feverish activity. Hundreds of men with picks, shovels and wheelbarrows were toiling to prepare wide paths across the countryside in many counties.


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