Board the Train Through Time

The Downpatrick & County Down Railway and Viking living history group the “Gall Gael Vikings” are calling on all would-be Hägar the Horribles to prepare their boarding parties and climb aboard the “Train Through Time” this Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday 30th May. The train will leave Downpatrick Station and ‘disappear’ through a timewarp to the […]

Signal Planting at Downpatrick

A little bit of history was made at the DCDR last Saturday when the first signal in nearly twenty years was erected on site. The ex-Great Northern Railway lattice signal was reclaimed in 2006 from the depot of Marsden Recovery Specialists Ltd at Graham Gardens in Lisburn, due to redevelopment works. It had originally been […]

Downpatrick Railway “Outraged” by Theft

Volunteers from the Downpatrick & Co. Down Railway have expressed anger and frustration after being targeted by criminals yet again. In the latest incident, all the lead flashing from the station canopy was stripped off. The damage was discovered on Thursday 9th May when various nails and plastic fixings were found on the platform. Station […]