Heritage Week talk on Sallins-Tullow Railway
It will be given by John O’Brien, who lived in the station master’s house at Harristown Station, which was located in the Harristown Estate.
The talk is at 8pm on Saturday 26 August, in the Ballymore Eustace Community Centre.
Work on the line began in March 1883 and was completed as far as Baltinglass in the autumn of 1885. The line to Tullow opened in June 1886. The entire route from Sallins to Tullow had intermediate stations at Naas, Harristown, Dunlavin, Colbinstown, Grangecon, Baltinglass and Rathvilly. The last passengers were carried in January 1947 and the line was finally closed in spring 1959.
Your editor attended a similar talk by historian Liam Kenny in 2011 as part of the Brannockstown Festival, and it was fascinating. John O’Brien’s presentation should be equally absorbing.
