MERGER OF IRISH RAILWAYS INTO THE GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 8 December 1924, the Dáil formally approved the merger of all railway companies in Saorstát Éireann to form the Great Southern Railway Company. During the revolutionary period the railways suffered considerably at the hands of all parties. In the 1916 Easter Rising, stations in Dublin were taken over by … Read more