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Another Archive Radio Report Unearthed

It is with delight that we have unearthed another classic radio clip of the DCDR (then Downpatrick Railway Museum) on the airwaves, found on a cassette in the bottom drawer of one of our member’s desks!

In this 2003 edition of Your Place and Mine Michael McNamee journeys down to Downpatrick to see the restoration work going on, and talks with Walter Burke, John Reilly and Gerry Cochrane, as well as jumping on the train.

You can listen to the excerpt here: