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    Apr 29, 2019 4 minutes

    Ireland’s Largest Industrial Railway: The Guinness System

    By Hugh Oram

    OH TO have seen Dublin’s Guinness Brewery system in its heyday!

    Today, little remains of the once-extensive 1ft 10in-gauge network that infiltrated nearly every corner of the St James’s Gate site, but thankfully a number of the distinctive and ingenious William Spence 0-4-0Ts survive in preservation.

    There was also a 5ft 3in-gauge system that employed its own locomotives for shunting, including a pair of Hudswell, Clarke 0-4-0STs.

    Yet it was the Spence locos which provided the greatest fascination thanks to the genius of their designer Samuel Geoghegan. He developed 5ft 3in-gauge cradles for the diminutive locos

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