Photography
Athlone Flooding
28, Feb 2014 - 09:03

Norwegian TV had a big hit with a programme of a 7-hour drivers-eye view of train journey across Norway. Castlebar.ie's answer is a series of 25 photos of the flooded fields taken from the 12:45 train from Dublin as it pulled out of Athlone heading towards Roscommon, (plus Castlerea, Ballyhaunis, Claremorris, Manulla Junction, Castlebar and Westport) - taken on 27 February 2014. The flooding of the Shannon into the fields is dramatic - some pretty confused swans.

Athlone Platform

River Shannon from the Railway Line

River Shannon

Bridge over the River Shannon

Over the bridge and heading North

Concreted doors and windows

Leaving Athlone station

Old railway sleepers

Railway buildings

Athlone canal

Sloping down towards the Shannon

Swans in the fields

Pylons and Swans

A sheepwalk or long field - rushes

This would be a field in summer.

Fences under water

Floodplain

Water still encroaching

Water fenced in.

Baled silage - out of the water

Lough Ree in the distance.