Cast metal sign stating "W and C. I. Railway"

yorkie said:

What's the context? I can find no evidence of such a railway existing.

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Tom gibson said:

I have a cast metal sign saying W and C I, anybody leaving this gate open is subject to a forty shillings fine

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BestWestern said:

Here comes a rather long and potentially rather entertaining word game thread!

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gazthomas said:

Unless it is Weymouth and Channel Islands as others have said

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30907 said:

No such railway, the tramway was never independent.

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History: Summary
Waterford and Central Ireland Railway [13/7/1868]. Began as Waterford and Kilkenny Railway incorporated 21/7/1845 [1846, Opened Kilkenny-Thomastown on 12/5/1848, To Seapoint Hill 20/5/1850. In May 1853 reached Dunkitt which was to remain the Waterford terminus for 11 years][KAM: Title was the unfulfilled ambition of establishing a prosperous trunk line between Waterford and the Midlands. It began with the Waterford & Kilkenny Railway incorporated in 1845 to join these and provide the southern section of the Dublin-Waterford route. Kilkenny was important in the promotion of the mid-1840s when 4 railways were proposed to run to it. These were the Kilkenny & Great Southern & Western, for a line to the GS&WR at Cuddagh, the Irish South Eastern to the GS&WR at Carlow, the Waterford & Kilkenny, and a railway to Clonmel via Callan and Fethard. The Clonmel line was never built, but the W&KR was partially opened in 1848 and the ISER in 1850, and these between them provided the long-awaited Waterford-Dublin line. The K&GS&WR scheme also failed, but it was revived in modified form as the Kilkenny Junction Railway, opened between Kilkenny and Maryborough in 1867. The KJR had been promoted as a northward extension of the W&KR, and in 1866 the two companies obtained an Act for the nominally independent 'Central Ireland Railways', to build a line from Portlaoise to Mullingar. In anticipation name changed to Waterford & Central Ireland Railway in 1868, but the CIR got no further than Mountmellick, to which it was opened in 1885. The WCIR, which absorbed the CIR in 1877 and the KJR in 1896, was itself purchased by the GS&WR on 1/9/1896.]. Operated by Waterford and Limerick Railway [1847] from 28/1/1861 to 1/6/1867 when W&KR recommenced working its own line and the previous week began to work the Kilkenny Junction Railway to Portlaoise. With the Kilkenny Junction Railway [1867] gained powers to a Central Ireland Railway line from Maryborough (opened 1/5/1867) to Geashill and changed its name to the Waterford and Central Ireland Railway in 1868. The Central Ireland Railway was absorbed by the WCIR in 1877 and the Kilkenny Junction Railway in 1896. The WCIR was in turn absorbed by GSWR on 1/9/1900.

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