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Railway Heritage Museum : Donegal Town

Address :
Tirconnaill St., Donegal Town, Co. Donegal

Surrounding Area :
Tirconnaill St., Donegal Town, Co. Donegal

Description :

experience of travelling by train. We hope to see some of our plans implemented in the near future.

In Donegal Town we hope to reinstate the track at the Old station House leading into the countryside to enable us to once again run engines out of Donegal. We also are currently looking at providing a small length of narrow gauge along the pier front as a major tourist attraction for the town.

Step back to the days when steam trains ran through the hills of Donegal!

Stretching from Derry and Strabane to Stranorlar/Ballybofey Letterkenny Donegal Killybegs Glenties and Ballyshannon the County Donegal Railway provided the essential transport for farmers and fishermen businessmen and builders housewives and schoolchildren--everyone who needed to get about or to transport just about anything. To the north of the County the Lough Swilly Railway reached out to Buncrana and Carndonagh on the Inishowen to Letterkenny and via a long winding route along the Atlantic coast and through wild mountain passes near Errigal to the fishing harbour of Burtonport.

Donegal Town Station

All-in-all the steam trains and later diesel railcars provided a vital network for the people of Donegal. They provided a means to get sheep and cattle to go to market place. They had a huge impact on daily life and allowed for the provision of cheaper groceries daily newspapers and a better postal service. It brought the chance to travel to visit relations and friends to go shopping in the towns and on special days exciting expeditions to Derry. Alas it was many locals people's taste of home as they travelled to the emigrant ships standing off at Lough Foyle ready to make the journey across the Atlantic to America.

Killybegs Railway Station

Often in those balmy days of Summer in the 30's 40's and 50's two bright red steam engines would valiantly puff their way up through the Barnesmore Gap with 12 or more coaches clattering behind packed full of day trippers eager for the golden sands of Rossnowlagh. The little trains and railcars brought many visitors to Donegal and carried many local people journeys long and short. Alas though they could not compete with the car or the lorry and in 1959 the railway was closed. But the railway didn't die. By a quirk of fate and many lucky accidents some of the old engines railcars carriages and vans survived and now in the age of preservation and restoration recapture the spirit of the little railways that so many of us love.

The Donegal Railway Heritage Centre is just the first of our projects dedicated to reawakening interest in Donegal's railway past to bringing that past to a whole new audience and giving it the living durable worthwhile tribute that it deserves.

Contact Details :

: T - +353 (0)74 9722655 : F - +353 (0)74 9721234 :

: E - rrailway@gofree.indigo.ie : W - http://www.countydonegalrailway.com :

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C/O Donegal Self Catering, Tirhomin, Milford Co. Donegal | Tel: +353 (0) 87 619 02 40

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