Weatherday: Hibernia on rails

Old steam locomotive at Campo Quijano, Salta Province, Argentina (2007).

Cloudy with outbreaks of rain this morning, clearing later. Brighter towards evening.

Temperatures up to 16deg in moderate breezes from the south that will ease to light variable.

On this day in 1834, Ireland's first railway train brought passengers from Westland Row station in Dublin to Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) and back, hauled by the Hibernia steam locomotive.

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