Dublin 1948, over seven minutes of Dublin traffic on British Pathé. Loads of Rs!
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=64892
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=64892
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Nigel |
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Dublin 1948, over seven minutes of Dublin traffic on British Pathé. Loads of Rs!
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=64892 |
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gnr302 |
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That is a superb find, Nigel. I think it is the first or certainly by far the best cine of Dublin trams that I have seen. So what did I notice?
- lost of trams, so 14/15 were still trams, yet there were a few Boltons, with one clearly on the 11. The first 20 Boltons went on the road in May 1948, with another 25 following in August 1948, and the 14/15 trams came off in November 1948. So it was certainly taken within that period - note the southbound trams coming down both sides of O'Connell St. and merging near Abbey St. - note that in the first shot of Eden Quay there is no GNR single decker there, but lo and behold, it suddenly appears and stays for the remainder! - there is a three upper deck window bus, which has to be an R280 (R281 - R290) type - why were there two buses CIE coming down O'Connell St. and turning left into Eden Quay? I don't think any routes normally went that way. |
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65DONARD |
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Well done on this find Nigel.
I also noted a bus coming from Eden Quay and turning right onto O'Connell St!!!. The trams are on the new alignment created sometime around 1946, this involved moving the west side tracks closer to the bridge divider and the removal/abandonment of the east side tracks and connections from Bachelors Walk. |
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oneonetwo |
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Yes, an excellent find Nigel. I too am facinated by the trams, especially the way the southbound ones take the "wrong" side of the O'Connell
Monument and how close they are to each other, both passing and following. I can just imagine the melody of sounds that they created with their (real) bells
and noisier motors than the modern Luas trams (rather like the original Darts in fact), full of character which I don't think anybody on this Board
(including myself I hasten to add), remembers, I was still in nappies at the time!
Anybody interested in this period should buy Michael Corcoran's fantastic history of Dublin Trams, "Through streets broad and narrow". And as stated by GNR302, the GNR single decker, one of the later Gardners by the look of it, actually made it onto Eden Quay but the double decker at the Howth terminus is hard to make out with the digital affect of the film. Well done Nigel.
Last Edited By: oneonetwo 08/11/2009 08:56:51.
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gnr302 |
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Aw, Oneonetwo, that must be the first time that you were stumped for recognition of a GNR bus!
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