Railway workers recall the days when Donegal had a rail line. The narrow gauge railway closed down in December 1959. Sam Carse has recreated a model railway of what existed in Donegal in his living ...

An overgrown, defunct railway recalled so passionately with such mathematically precise terms seems suspect. But if you delve deeper you find that the story of the railways is the story of once ...

Cashelnagor Railway Station is a beautifully restored Station House and Waiting Room in the village of Gortahork, County Donegal, and was once used as a movie set! Built in 1902 on the now dismantled ...

New rail links between Derry, Tyrone and Donegal as well as to the North’s three airports are key proposals in a long-awaited all island review of Ireland’s railway network. Commissioned in 2021 by ...

We are lobbying for the reinstatement of rail, once a vibrant mode of transportation in this region, which would certainly improve access to Donegal and even be seen as a promotion of our heritage and ...

THE railway map of Ireland is very different today to the one at the onset of partition just over 100 years ago. Today's map is striking by the stark image of a gaping hole in an area that once had a ...

The golden age of Ireland's railways has well and truly ended, with far fewer stations and lines in use than in decades long since passed. While the trains once seemed to run through virtually every ...