School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 156
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The carriages arrived by the Great Southern and Western railway and were placed on the rails and were sent up and down the line several times to test it. At about three oclock the same day a number of directors and shareholders were taken down in seventeen minutes and brought back in ten and a half minutes performing the run up and down to the satisfaction of everybody concerned.
In the year (gap in text) the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway was extended to Crosshaven. Previous to that the trains did not run further than Passage. The passengers left the train at Passage Station and resumed their journey to Monkstown, Ringaskiddy and Queenstown by the Cork and Passage Railway Steamers. The S. S. Albert and the S. S. Monkstown were the names of the steamers. One Steamer was named after Prince Albert and the other was called after the village Monkstown. People used make money with jaunting(continues on next page)
