Lost Railways from Around the World: Listowel & Ballybunion Railway

Categories: Best OfStoriesBody: Note: This is an excerpt from a fantastic new book by Anthony Lambert, called Lost Railways from Around the World. We love it so!     In a country blessed with more than its fair share of idiosyncratic railways, Ireland’s Listowel & Ballybunion Railway (LBR) in County Kerry won the laurels. The best-known of 19th-century monorails has spawned many stories mocking its impracticality, but it was one of the most visited and photographed of Irish rai...