The Guinness Railways in Dublin

[rogerfarnworth]

The St. James's Gate Brewery belonging to Guinness had what was apparently the longest private railway system in Ireland. In total there were 10 miles of track of which 8 miles were narrow gauge. There were some interesting innovations in lured within the system - a spiral in narrow gauge allowing trains to pass under St. James's Street, an ingenious conversion wagon which allowed narrow gauge locomotive to work on the broad gauge sidings, a unique design of narrow gauge locomotive specifically suited to the needs of the site.

This is another post prompted by reading 1951 editions of The Railway Magazine!

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/04/26/the-guinness-brewery-railways-dublin

 

[341o2]

The Industrial Railway Society has a useful article

https://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/22/Guinness.htm

 

[rogerfarnworth]

Hi 341o2

Thank you. The article is used extensivlye in the blog post.☺️

Best wishes

Roger

 

[Taunton]

The St. James's Gate Brewery belonging to Guinness had what was apparently the longest private railway system in Ireland.

I'd be surprised if it exceeded the Bord na Mona system, the Irish peat extraction company, which had extensive trackage linking peat extraction areas to peat-powered electricity generating stations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bord_na_Móna#Railways

 

[341o2]

Claimed to have a larger system than the CIE and carries more traffic

http://www.ribblevalleyrail.co.uk/Irish Bog Railways.htm

From page 2, some of the former Guiness diesels were aquired by the peat railways

 

[rogerfarnworth]

I'd be surprised if it exceeded the Bord na Mona system, the Irish peat extraction company, which had extensive trackage linking peat extraction areas to peat-powered electricity generating stations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bord_na_Móna#Railways

You are correct Taunton, although someone has suggested that Bord_na_Móna is a government system. Perhaps I should have said 'Private Factory railway'.

 

[Jagdpanther]

There are two of the Guinness Brewery locos at the Ulster Transport Museum near Belfast. (A place well worth a visit)

 

[33017]

There are two loco's in the Guinness museum, too. There's also a surprising amount of narrow gauge track in the vicinity.

 

[rogerfarnworth]

A short note about a couple of publications which focus on the Guinness Brewery Railways. .....

The Guinness Brewery Railways, Dublin, again. ….

The featured image above shows a staggering number of barrels at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin! [3] This very short article results from some recent reading about the railways on the Guinness Brew…

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This very short article results from some recent reading about the railways on the Guinness Brewery site in Dublin.

• An article in 'Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review' Issue 60 Volume 8, October 2004, p134-142; and
• Paul Webb, 'Shifting the Stout', The Moseley Trust, Apedale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.