19 July 2010 Europe

FROM THE ARCHIVES: JULY 13th, 1949

The last Dalkey tram from Dublin city centre in July 1949 was mobbed by crowds, delayed by a bonfire on the tracks in Ballsbridge, and stripped of almost every removable part by souvenir hunters. It took it two hours to get to Blackrock and arrived looking like a bombed-out wreck. Myles na Gopaleen

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