Booklet listing stations and fares to Liverpool and Queenstown

Mary McGovern from County Cavan had a long journey ahead of her before she got to Titanic. She travelled on the Cavan and Leitrim light railway to Mullingar, then to Queenstown via Dublin.

Passengers could buy a ticket from to bring them from their local railway station right through to the town they were going to in America.

From the early 1900s most steamship companies had made arrangements with railway companies on both sides of the Atlantic for the issuing of combined steamer and railway tickets.  In exchange for a guarantee of business the railway companies paid the steamship companies a commission on every ticket.