Subscribers to the Cork and Passage Railway 1837 including the Dublin Pim Family, the Ryanairs of the 1830s.

The Dublin Quaker Pims family had extensive business interests.  Their South Great George St store in Dublin was demolished in the late 1960s to make way for a hideous even by Dublin standard office block long occupied by the Revenue Commissioners no longer so.  They make a huge success of the Dublin Kingston Railway by differential pricing and the went  on to invest in railways all over Ireland.

The investor list is a roll call of Cork in the 1830s.

 

 

 

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