Thanks to Pat Conneely for this photo of the Broadstone station and the Royal Canal. I’ve added it to my page on the Broadstone Line of the Royal Canal.
The Broadstone station before the canal harbour was filled in (photo courtesy Pat Conneely)
The photo must have been taken before 1877, when the harbour was filled in.
Nothing to do with waterways, but an interesting biog of a vigorous Carlow MP.
… writes about Boris Johnson.
The early impact of the steamship was greatest within the technological and economic heartlands of Europe and North America. Glasgow saw one service every ten minutes in the 1830s, while a regular service between Vienna and Budapest, inaugurated in 1826 and taken over in 1829 by the famous Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft (one of the longest words in the German language), had a fleet of seventy-one ships by 1850 for a trip lasting roughly fourteen hours.
Jürgen Osterhammel The Transformation of the World: a global history of the nineteenth century Princeton University Press 2009, English translation by Patrick Camiller 2014
Since the German spelling reform of 1996, “Schifffahrt” is written with three “f”s; however, since the name belongs to a company that existed before the spelling reform, the old form of the name is used when referring to the company.
The name of the company is well known in German-speaking countries as a starter to humorously construct even longer compound words. Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmütze is such a word, which potentially might even have been used, but probably never actually was. It means a “DDSG captain’s hat”. Another common example is Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänskajütenschlüssel which means “DDSG captain’s cabin key”.
Happily, abbreviations have now been invented.
Posted in Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Historical matters, Passenger traffic
HMG’s world-beating rival to Galileo (global navigation satellite system). A laugh a minute.
… but there seems to have been a severe outbreak of gobshitery across the water. Here is a Reuter’s article on HMG’s world-beating handling of the coronavirus .
Don’t overlook the short article “The game changer that wasn’t” at the bottom of the page.
Posted in Foreign parts, Modern matters, Politics
Tagged boris johnston, coronavirus, covid, gobshite, UK
`To be SOLD by AUCTION, at One o’Clock on Monday, 20th July, 1830, at the North Strand Depot, in Lots agreeable to Purchasers. This is well worth the attention of Land-Owners.
NB A reasonable time will be given for the removal of same.
John Littledale, Auctioneer
Dublin Evening Post 6 May 1830
I wonder how they weighed it before offering it for sale.
Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Historical matters, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations
Tagged Dublin, manure, North Strand
Here is a new page about the use of square sails on Irish inland waterways. I intend to add to this as I come across more information.
Posted in boats, Historical matters, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Shannon
Tagged inland waterways, Ireland, sail, square sail
Irish waterways history 