A Meeting of the Board

Minutes of the Board of Directors of the Dublin Underground Railway
1 April 1937

Present:
Mr L H Corner, Chairman and Managing Director.
Mr R H Corner, Treasurer and Company Secretary.
Mr N E Corner, Director of Staffing.
Mr S W Corner, Director of Operations.

Carriage of Livestock
The continuing problem presented by the obligation to carry livestock was acknowledged. In spite of the new national Constitution, which repealed or amended much of the legislation imposed by the former administration, the Statutes of the City of Dublin of 1171 still prevailed, and compelled all operators of transriverine crossings to carry livestock.
It was regretted that it would not be feasible to invoke the clause in Poyning's Law, which forbade the entry of any O or Mac within the Pale for the purposes of trade upon pain of death.
The suggestion was made that a moving staircase, known as an "escalator", be installed at each station – as was used in a similar railway system in another country to the east.
Resolved That moving staircases be installed at each station, and that the Regulations be amended to require all animals to be carried by passengers on such staircases.

Permanent Way Sinking Fund
The treasurer reported that the balances in the Permanent Way Sinking Fund, and also in the Locomotive Replacement Fund, were in a healthy state, and that, barring emergencies, it would be possible to commence operating a service on two lines of track within the near future.

Renaming the Railway
It was agreed that the name of the Railway should be gaelicised in the spirit of the new era. Raille Lingus was proposed, as was Baile Atha Cliath Udar ar Raille de Seirbhis (Dublin Rail Service Authority), but neither met with unanimous agreement; the latter proposal being objected to on the grounds that BACUARDS might be mischievously interpreted. It was finally agreed unanimously that the family name be incorporated in the new designation.
Resolved That the Railway be henceforth known as Cuinne Lingus.

To be continued