Obituary – Albert Sage
ALBERT SAGE It is with regret that we have to announce the death of Albert Sage (right), who passed away on 2nd October. Albert was for a long time Infrastructure Manager in the early days of the railway and helped pioneer the techniques that saw the construction of first ever fully-closed railway in Ireland to […]
Farewell to Loco Shed as Gallery Moves In
It’s all change at the Downpatrick & County Down Railway, as work begins to prepare the way for the new £500,000 Heritage Lottery and Northern Ireland Tourist Board funded ‘Carriage Display Gallery’. This work involves the clearing of the site, and most noticeably the demolition of the old steam engine shed. Railway volunteers have described […]