Sixty Years On…
DCDR chairman Michael Collins appeared on this week’s BBC Radio Ulster Your Place and Mine programme to highlight the 60th Anniversary of the BCDR’s closure, and to appeal for artefacts. You can listen to the interview here:
Sixty Years On… The Last Train From Downpatrick
aDownpatrick’s last Station Master James Taylor (left) and Walter Paton (Train Rosterer), greet fireman James Hill, and driver Barney Malone who are about to leave Downpatrick for Newcastle for the last time on 15th January 1950, before returning to BelfastSixty years ago today, the first part of Northern Ireland’s once-extensive railway service quite literally came […]