IRRS Journal

The IRRS Journal contains a wealth of news and articles covering all aspects of contemporary and historical railways in Ireland. Fully illustrated with modern and archival photos, including maps and special features, members receive three issues per-year (February, June, October). Since 1947, over 200 issues of the Journal have been published, becoming the authoritative and unrivalled source of record for Irish railways. To subscribe to the Journal, see IRRS Membership page.

Journal 216 (February 2025)

  • Belfast Grand Central Station, Ian Campbell
  • The Pre & Post Covid IRRS 210
  • Luck of the Draw, Siobhan Osgood
  • Inchicore Locomotive Staff Fines Book 1889-1910, Norman E Gamble
  • Lost and Found, Tim Moriarty
  • Publications
  • Observations & Comments
  • Tailte Tours
  • Society News
  • New Irish Rail Timetable, Barry Carse
  • The “American Car” Mystery, R.C. Flewitt
  • The Mallow Railway Shootings of 1921, Peter Rigney
  • Irish Railway News

Journal 215 (October 2024)

  • Dick’s Diary 2024, Dick Fearn
  • Edna O’Brien, “Sabiola” and CIE’s The Link Magazine, Sinead Moynihan
  • The Railways Act of 1924 144
  • DART Memories – 40 Years on, Barry Carse
  • The Luas (20 Years), Tom Manning
  • Inchicore Inventions, Jonathan Beaumont
  • The Railways in the Economy of Salvation – Part 4 Tim Moriarty
  • My First Railway Holiday, Paul Hoare
  • GNR(I) Staff Issues 1875 -1878, Tim Moriarty
  • Irish Railway News

Journal 214 (June 2024)

  • The Time’s Arrow Railtour, Neil Dinnen
  • The 2600 Railcars, Barry Carse
  • Spiky-Helmeted Perishers on Every Railway, Brian Griffin
  • The Railways in the Economy of Salvation – Part 3, Tim Moriarty
  • Views from the Iron Bridge, Michael Baker
  • The Clonakilty Branch, Stanley C. Jenkins MA
  • CIE Archives Progress, Kevin Forkan
  • Observations and Comments
  • Society News
  • Publications
  • Irish Railway News

Journal 213 (February 2024) 

  • The Station Masters of Harristown 1883-1938, John O’Brien
  • William Dargan’s English Railways – Part 2, Robert Hartley
  • From Dining Car to Food Trolley, Louis Cullen
  • The Irish Pullman Experiment 1926-1936, Tim Moriarty
  • Irish Rail 2024 Timetable, Barry Carse
  • Society News    
  • Observations and Comments     
  • Publications       
  • Paddy O’Brien Photo Miscellany
  • Irish Railway News      

Journal 212 (October 2023)

  • All-Island Strategic rail review, Mark Merrigan
  • The token exchange railtour, Neil Dinnen
  • A Decade of change, 1953 – 1963 – Part 2, Dan Renehan
  • Observations and comments
  •  Publications
  • Ballymacarrett Again! Norman E Gamble
  • Of Arms and Men – the UTA corporate Symbols, Tim Moriarty
  • Trains for the GAA Hurling Finals; 1973 /2023, Barry Carse
  • Athboy branch communications, Tom Wall
  • Society News
  • Writings on Irish railways 2022 A O’Rourke & T Wall
  • An Annual bibliography
  •  Irish railway News

Journal 211 (June 2023) 

  • Ancestry and the IRRS Archives, Rhona Murray
  • A Second Station at Limerick Junction, Ernie Shepherd
  • William Dargan’s English Railways – The Liverpool & Bury Railway, Robert Hartley
  • Observations and Comments
  • Society Matters
  • Derry Pilgrimages Trains, 1952
  • Publications
  • Tuairisa Bhais – Obituaries
  • A Decade of Change, 1953 – 1963 – Part 1, Dan Renehan
  • Connolly Railcar Links, Barry Carse
  • Irish Railway News

Journal 210 (February 2023) 

  • Newtownstewart Derailment 1943, Norman E Gamble
  • Visits to Irish railways in 1954 & 1955, David L. Chatfield
  • The Railways in the Economy of Salvation Part 2, Tim Moriarty
  • Society Matters
  • Publications
  • Obituaries
  • A GNR(I) Driver Remembers, Conrad Natzio
  • Enterprise: Catering and Customs, Stephen Rafferty
  • Observations and Comments
  • Irish Railway News

Journal 209 (October 2022)

  • Trams and the IRRS
  • The Enterprise Express (Part Two): 1981-2021, Barry Carse
  • Distant Points, David Stirling
  • Connecting a Nation, Deryck Fay
  • Broadstone Revisited – Again, Richard Maund
  • Observations and Comments
  • Publications
  • Carson’s Great Northern Scrapbook, Tim Moriarty
  • Irish Railway News
  • Royal Railway Events, Tim Moriarty

Journal 208 (June 2022)

  • Inchicore 175 Anniversary
  • The Enterprise Express (Part One): 1947 – 1980, Barry Carse
  • Livestock on the Line, Mark Merrigan
  • The Railways in the Economy of Salvation (Part 1), Tim Moriarty
  • Howth to Beragh via Mountain Stage, John Curran
  • Observations and Comments
  • Publications
  • Writings on Irish Railways 2021, Tom Wall & Alan O’Rourke
  • Obituaries          
  • Society Matters
  • Irish Railway News