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  • Drumboe crowdfunding appeal launched on Valentine’s Day

    Drumboe crowdfunding appeal launched on Valentine’s Day

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    By Hugh Dougherty A €60,000 (£55,000) crowdfunding drive to bring County Donegal Railways 2-6-4T Drumboe back to Donegal Town was launched by County Donegal Railways Restoration Limited at Harvey’s Point Hotel on St Valentine’s Day. The hotel, situated near to the former Lough Eske station on the CDR’s Donegal-Stranorlar main line, is hosting a third-scale…

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  • Mystery boiler dug up in Omagh could be from GNR(I) loco

    Mystery boiler dug up in Omagh could be from GNR(I) loco

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    By Hugh Dougherty A STEAM locomotive boiler dug up by contractors working at the site of the former locomotive shed at Omagh, County Tyrone, on February 8, might have come from a Great Northern Railway of Ireland locomotive. However, a mystery now surrounds the find, for Omagh shed – which closed 54 years ago on…

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