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Donegal Railways on RTE Nationwide

  • 01-02-2010 08:26PM
    #1
    sesswhat
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    Donegal Railways are set to feature on Nationwide on Wednesday.


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  • #2
    muffler
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    Must keep an eye out


  • #3
    Essexboy
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    Interesting programme but where is Finntown? Is it near Glenties?


  • #4
    muffler
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    Essexboy wrote: »
    Interesting programme but where is Finntown? Is it near Glenties?
    Yeah, not that far. About 9 or 10 miles I think. The trains would have ran from Glenties via Finntown to Ballybofey.

    You can see the routes here


  • #5
    Redsoxfan
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    Fintown!

    Hard to believe there was once a station in my own Churchill!


  • #6
    donegalgirl28
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    My Dad use to go to and from boarding school in Dublin via train. Gets off at Fintown then a bus from Fintown - Dungloe. Effort of that!


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  • #7
    IsItJustMeOr...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭IsItJustMeOr...


    My Granda often told us about the Owencarrow Viaduct crash in 1925 and he was part of the group that went there to help out. He was around 26 at the time...


  • #8
    GoldenGreen
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    donegalgirl28 wrote: »
    My Dad use to go to and from boarding school in Dublin via train. Gets off at Fintown then a bus from Fintown - Dungloe. Effort of that!

    Funny you mention that as when I was looking at the map above I was think would you actually take a train from Dublin to Donegal.

    Would you have to buy a pile of different tickets as there would have been a few different rail companies operating the line between here and Dublin?

    Also How long would that have taken?


  • #9
    donegalgirl28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭donegalgirl28


    GoldenGreen wrote: »
    Funny you mention that as when I was looking at the map above I was think would you actually take a train from Dublin to Donegal.

    Would you have to buy a pile of different tickets as there would have been a few different rail companies operating the line between here and Dublin?

    Also How long would that have taken?

    I'll ask him this weekend. Dunno what he would know about the ticket thing, he was travelled on it from age of 7 - 12 every holidays (Christmas, Easter & Summer)


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