XAW018982 IRELAND (1948). General View, Waterford, Kilkenny, Ireland, 1948. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing North/East.

Concrete barge Cretefield, here used as coal hulk at Garrett Quay

Fleming's Castle, demolished in the 1960's to make way for the Ardree Hotel.

Hall's Flour Mills extended in 1940s to replace some of the old coal landing stages on North Wharf.

County Wexford on the east side of the River Barrow.

County Kilkenny

Merchants' Quay

Grattan Quay

Sion Hill

Waterford's main railway station has been linked to the city by means of a succession of striking bridges across the wide estuary of the River Suir, in chronological order: Cox's "Timbertoes" until 1911, John Redmond (Waterford) Bridge 1912-84, Rice Bridge 1986-.

Gantry-mounted signal box at west end of station.

Waterford North station, opened in 1864, by the Waterford & Limerick Railway, with a splendid Neo-Classical building and long platforms, constructed between the blasted rock face of Mt.Misery and the extended quay frontage, were added by 1906. The station layout changed little over the next half century, with platforms 1 and 2 serving links east to New Ross and Rosslare, whereas remaining platforms served passengers heading for Kilkenny, Dublin, Cork and Limerick.

Mount Misery

Dock Road

Waterford Bridge with central drawbridge section to allow the passage of ships up the river.