After completing the first two articles in the series, covering the Glenties Branch, I was put in touch with Kerry Doherty who lives in Co. Donegal and he provided a few images of the branch. I have updated the two linked articles with a total of four photographs, three of which come from Kerry Doherty and the fourth from the Co. Donegal Railway Heritage Centre. ....
For ease of access I have repeated the two links here. ....
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/05/27/co-...allinamore
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/06/22/co-...-glenties/
A short note about a couple of publications which focus on the Guinness Brewery Railways. .....
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/07/22/the...blin-again
This very short article results from some recent reading about the railways on the Guinness Brewery site in Dublin.
An article in 'Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review' Issue 60 Volume 8, October 2004, p134-142; and
Paul Webb, 'Shifting the Stout', The Moseley Trust, Apedale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
This next post about the Co. Donegal Railways is the first looking at the Strabane to Letterkenny Railway. It begins at Strabane and runs as far as the town of Raphoe which was an ancient seat of temporal and spiritual power. ....
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/07/27/co-...-to-raphoe
Quote:The first railway station in Letterkenny opened on 30th June 1883. The line out of Londonderry started out as the Londonderry and Buncrana Railway and was absorbed into the L&LSR in 1887. [9] That line is not the subject of this article but it is important to note that Letterkenny had been rail-served for many years before the branch from Strabane arrived in the town.
The last post above was uploaded yesterday (27th July 2020). Immediately after having sent it, I got a further email from Kerry Doherty who lives in Ballindrait close to the line. He sent me a number of additional photographs of the line, both historic and taken very recently. It seemed good to alter the article to include these pictures. If you read the article on 27th July, it is worth another look. My thanks to Kerry Doherty for the additional images referenced [45] throughout the article.
The Bream Heritage Walk, the Oakwood Tramway and The Flour Mill Ltd
The Forest of Dean continues to be one of my favourites places. In 2020 we, once again, stayed there in the first week of September.
This post returns to two earlier themes from the Forest.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/09/04/the...l-colliery
On 1st September 2020 we followed a sign-posted circular walk which started in the centre of the village of Bream on the Southwest side of the Forest. The route was planned with the support of the Big Lottery Heritage Fund and featured a series of different heritage locations around the village. ............. The walk took us first along the route of the China Bottom Branch of the Oakwood Tramway which was covered in an earlier post about the tramways in the Forest (
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2017/10/02/oak...tramways).
This short addendum to my most recent post provides photographs with comments which were taken at the site of Flour Mill Colliery where The Flour Mill Ltd undertakes heavy engineering work maintaining and refurbishing steam locomotives.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/09/04/the...-ltd-again
Darkhill Ironworks, Titanic Steelworks and associated railways and tramways. .....
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/09/12/the...-dark-hill
Quote:In early September 2020, while staying in Bream in the Forest of Dean we walked around the Titanic Steel Works and the Dark Hill Ironworks of father and son David and Robert Mushet. These two establishments sit adjacent to what was the Coleford branch of the Severn and Wye Joint Railway. They were also served, in its time, by the Milkwall branch of Severn and Wye Tramway.
Within 24 hours of posting about the Strabane and Letterkenny Railway between Raphoe and Convoy, Kerry Doherty got in touch to say that he would try to gain access to the Lime Kiln and an associated bridge just to the East of Convoy. He kindly then sent me a series of photographs of the formation of the line, the bridge and the Lime Kiln itself. The link below now allows access to the amended post about this length of the line.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/10/05/co-...-to-convoy