Donegal Railway Station Traditional Cache
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Of all the distinctive Irish railways that have attracted the admiration and devotion of railway enthusiasts none seems to have captured the imagination quite like the County Donegal Railway.
Stretching for many miles through a remote and mountainous part of Ireland this substantial narrow-gauge railway had a remarkable history of growth and expansion both in routes and motive power.
With an initial broad-gauge section, then subsequently entirely narrow-gauge, with direct railway connections to the city quayside of Derry and reaching into the most inhospitable glens and mountain passes, the Donegal Railway certainly earned that much-overused epithet of “a unique railway”.
It ran through broad, rolling farmland and the poorest of mountain valleys, collected fish straight off the boats at Killybegs, cattle and sheep from the farms, and brought cheap foodstuffs, coal and fuel oil to many a hillside homestead. Its first 60 years were exclusively steam-powered and then, through the foresight of its redoubtable general manager, Henry Forbes, it branched out into the new technology of petrol and diesel-powered railcars and survived against the growing road competition for another 40 years.
Throughout the many years of its existence it provided a vital transport service to the communities it served. It was an important local employer, providing jobs for hundreds of people, teaching useful skills and bringing valuable wages into many homes. Even its very buildings contributed to the local scene with families settled and children raised in the station houses and crossing keepers’ cottages.
In more recent years the County Donegal Railway Restoration Society has been engaged in locating, buying and restoring old CDR rolling stock and has secured and restored the only surviving Brake/3rd, no. 28 amongst other items. The Society is now based at its own museum and offices at the old Station House in Donegal town and this is the base for its project to rebuild a section of original CDR line and operate genuine vintage stock.
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