First train arrival is celebrated in Cobh

It’s what Cobh might have looked like 150 years ago.

Parents and children walked the harbour town in period dress as part of the events organised to mark the anniversary of the first train’s arrival there from Cork City on Mar 10, 1862.

Large steamliners started anchoring in the harbour near Cobh in 1859, then known as Queenstown since the visit of Queen Victoria a decade earlier. Mail and passengers were then carried by smaller vessels to the quayside.