Tag Archives: Midland Great Western

Grand Canal passage-boat

Here is an account, published in 1862, of what it was like to travel from Portobello, in Dublin, to Ballinasloe by the Grand Canal Company’s passage-boats — and of why rail travel was much to be preferred.

Into the west

An unidentified sister-ship of the MGWR Royal Canal steamer Rambler went fishing in the west of Ireland ….