LNWR

In 1861 the London and North Western Railway Company (LNWR) which had been operating a steam packet service across the Irish Sea, moved its Irish terminus from Kingstown (Dun Laoghaoire) to North Wall Quay in Dublin. In 1883 the company bought the Prince of Wales Hotel, and soon afterwards replaced it with the London and North Western Hotel. This is LNWR picked out in the terracotta on this former railway hotel at North Wall, Dublin. It is very rare to find a British railway company on buildings in Ireland. I believe that this is one of only three examples.