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Station House Museum Clifden

Clifden, Ireland (Galway, Connemara)
Address Between Hulk Street and Galway Road
 
 
Floor area 230 m² / 2 476 ft²   Area for radios (if not the same) 50 m² / 538 ft²
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Heritage- or City Museum
  • Carriages
  • Air and Space (aviation, spaceflight etc.)
  • Railway
  • Lamps and Light
  • Amateur Radio / Military & Industry Radio

Opening times
 May to October: Monday to Saturday 10 am - 5 pm, Sunday 12 noon to 6 pm.

Admission
Status from 2011
 Adults: € 2; Children: € 1; Groups: € 6,30
Contact
Tel.:+353-95-21 494  eMail:marymac12 eircom.net  
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Location / Directions
N53.488617° W10.018115°N53°29.31702' W10°1.08690'N53°29'19.0212" W10°1'5.2140"
Clifden ist eine irische Kleinstadt in der Grafschaft Galway und die inoffizielle Hauptstadt von Connemara. Clifden liegt an der Nationalstraße N59, ca. 80 km westlich der Stadt Galway an der Mündung des Flusses Owenglin in die Clifden Bay.
Description

Clifden was the end of a railway from 1895 to 1935. In the engine shed (for two rails), Pat Lyne opened a museum in 1999. The building measures about 10 by 17 meters and there is a sort of internal balcony with stairs, which measures about 6 or 7 by 10 meters.

Below there are very different objects of the past, very well presented and upstairs there are photos and artefacts of the memorable flight across the Atalantic and the crash landing by Alcock & Brown. It was the first Atlantic flight achieved and took place in 1919. There also Marconi is presented, who run stations in the West of Ireland between 1905 and 1925.

There are references in books about The Clifden Station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph System, Scientific American, Nov 23, 1907. Some of the books are shown.

Received by the visitor Jeremy Craven, September 3, 2011:
"Although the display about the marconi station was not large it did have two very interesting handwritten letters on display between the person in charge of building the station and ?Marconi? bemoaning the inefficiency of the "Widnes Men" who were about to go back for Christmas, and maybe they could save money by not employing them again, and (I think) that maybe they had got far enough aleady to try a test transmission. Also talked about the difficulty in getting suitable wire supplies. If visiting the actual Marconi site (which is very atmospheric) then this museum is very much worth a brief visit.
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