BBC Evening Extra Talks to Desmond Coakham
The launch of Desmond Coakham’s book, “The Belfast & County Down Railway”, was covered in today’s edition of BBC Radio Ulster’s drive-time news programme, Evening Extra. The event to place on the 61st Anniversary of the closure of the BCDR, and saw the veteran author and expert on the Belfast & County Down Railway made […]
Book Recalling Much Loved Railway Launches at Downpatrick
The old Belfast & County Down Railway still manages to capture people’s imagination sixty one years after it was closed, and now a new ‘definitive’ book about this line is to be launched at the BCDR’s successor in Downpatrick on the anniversary of the line’s closure. This book is written by Desmond Coakham, who turns […]