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English: Kind of a sad one for our Pic of the Day from New Year's Eve in 1958. This is the last train ever to run from Harcourt Street Station in Dublin.


This photo ran in the Irish Independent on New Year's Day 1959, with an article describing the event. Here's an extract:
"An hour after the last train had left Harcourt Station at 4.25 p.m. yesterday the 100-year-old terminus bore a derelict look as a sad-faced staff locked up for the last time.
The departure of the last train will be long remembered by hundreds of people for among the 500 passengers, there were young children who were having their first and last train journey on that route.
Hundreds of people gathered at the station and outside to watch the end of the service. As the train moved out promptly on schedule fog signals exploded and passengers waved to the crowds on the platform.
With tears in her eyes, Mrs Maggie McLoughlin, of York St., who had been selling newspapers at the station for 39 years, said good-bye alone and unnoticed in a corner of the station.
At Bray hundreds of people were waiting on the station to greet the train as it arrived. Some young men attempted to remove fittings as souvenirs but were prevented by the Gardaí on duty."

Date: Wednesday, 31 December 1958

NLI Ref.: INDR2238
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Author National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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  • Group Photos
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles
  • Working Life
  • December
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  • Harcourt Street Station
  • Harcourt Street
  • Dublin
  • Ireland
  • Leinster
  • Train Station
  • Railway Station
  • C.I.É.
  • Coras Iompair Éireann
  • Passenger
  • Station Master
  • Platform
  • Railwaymen
  • Railways
  • Railroads
  • December
  • 1958
  • 1950s
  • Fifties
  • Independent Newspapers Collection
  • Wednesday
  • 31st
  • Last Train
  • Waiting Rooms
  • National Library of Ireland
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31 December 2011
Camera location53° 20′ 02.9″ N, 6° 15′ 46.38″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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31 December 1958

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