The West Clare Railway
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The West Clare Railway was one of a network of 3ft gauge lines which mushroomed across rural Ireland in the wake of the 1883 Tramways act. Opened throughout in 1892, it connected the market town of Ennis with the coastal settlements of Kilrush and Kilkee. Dogged by money problems from the outset, the railway was propelled into the limelight in 1896 when the entertained Percy French was prevented from fulfilling an engagement in Kilkee by the breakdown of his West Clare train - his poem "Are Ye Right There Michael" and the resulting court case ensuring a lasting worldwide fame for the for the Railway, although not in circumstances it would have chosen! Other hazards the West Clare faced included the weather - no less than five trains were blown off the metals by ferocious Atlantic storms, eventually resulting in the in the installation of an amameter at Quilty, and instructions that all trains should be halted when winds exceeded 80mph. This definitive history of the Railway gives its entire story from the first parliamentary proposals of 1845, to the controversial closure in 1961.
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