Please note that the Railway museum has been closed for several years, although it can be visited by appointment for a small fee.
One of the major attractions at the Castlerea Railway Museum and Pub, in Castlerea, County Roscommon, is the locomotive A55, a Metropolitan Vickers diesel electric dating from 1955. It was purchased from Iarnród Éireann minus its machinery and moved to the premises where it was converted into a snug. A railway museum was built around the locomotive and the overall effect suggests that it had arrived through the wall of the building into the bar. The museum displays a large and varied repository of railway heritage memorabilia. The pub, now closed, was supposedly the only one in the world with a railway locomotive within the walls.