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County Donegal Railway Question.

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Old 12th December 2005, 23:07
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County Donegal Railway Question.

Quite a few years ago (1980 in fact!) me and a mate hired a car and toured the Irish Republic. The furthest north we got was Killybegs, the terminus of a CDRJC branch from Donegal (I think). On the way there, we passed what looked to be an old embankment, and I've been kidding myself for years that I saw some old earthworks from the famous County Donegal Railway. Anyone know if there even was an embankment on the branch? I suppose I could have asked at the time, but the pull of the Guinness was stronger so we visited the first bar we came across!


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Old 20th December 2006, 13:03
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You could actaully be right it may have been, a fair bit of the railway is still there in the form of the track bed, in fact since you have probably been there a large amount of development has taken place in rstoring parts of the line. Currently the society has actually managedd to get money in the fomr of a grant and so now there is work taking place at the RPSI HQ to restore Drumboe to eventually full working pordere , however from the state she is in that could take a long time!!!! Also there is money being spent to refurbish some of the Carriages as well, i am not sure of the exact end intention but it seems they hope to restore part of the line back to full running order.
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