airfixfan Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 This Monday 17th Nationwide doing a feature on railways of Donegal and Derry 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westcorkrailway Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 7 minutes ago, airfixfan said: This Monday 17th Nationwide doing a feature on railways of Donegal and Derry Remind us on this thread on the day so I don’t forget to tune in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 On at 19.00 next Monday. Will.do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Let's hope it's better researched than some of their railway-themed programmes in the past........ Look out for an authentic clip of a 141 class with ferts leaving Stranorlar in, oh, I'd say some time in the 1850s, as the colour in the film isn't great..... or a nice view of the Wexford Goods in the Barnesmore Gap, to the tune of "Are ye right there Michael are ye right"......... and learn how, as the last narrow gauge railway (with just three yards between the rails), it closed down on 31st December 1970.......... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 Was interviewed in Derry and there is good coverage of the return of Drumboe in 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudfan Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Saw some stills from it at the talk tonight. Look out for the red steam engine on the back of a low loader going through Barnesmore gap. The red really stands out! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted April 12, 2023 Author Share Posted April 12, 2023 Thanks looks promising Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishrailways52 Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 at least its not another greenway program 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 "......an' de Achill branch was a narra gauge line built to take emigrants to Scotland, and shure the Connemara express ran along it...somewhere.....an' the last train carried all the dead of Mayo after the famine......." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted April 17, 2023 Author Share Posted April 17, 2023 Reminder see footage of Drumboe returning to Donegal Town plus a few familiar faces on RTE Nationwide at 7pm tonight! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Usual RTE thrown together effort with archive footage from railways hundreds of miles from Donegal! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted April 18, 2023 Author Share Posted April 18, 2023 Any other responses did not see this programme myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinner75 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Only remembered when I was down the pub last night! Oh well, at least I can watch it on the RTE Player later this evening (link below) https://www.rte.ie/player/series/nationwide/SI0000001172?epguid=IH10000974-23-0041 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westcorkrailway Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Something of note is that it seems the poor presenter had to travel all the way to Belfast in a 29k 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 19 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said: Something of note is that it seems the poor presenter had to travel all the way to Belfast in a 29k Someone told me at some stage that the presenter, the excellent Anne Cassin, had relatives on the railway herself........... yes, she seems to have travelled on a 29. Mad things to put on the Enterprise - why not an ICR? RTE included a shot of Inchicore Works, footgae of T & D cattle trains at Castlegregory junction, and interior shots of a driver in a West Clare "F" class diesel. Typical lazy research. Airfixfan, of this parish, was of course featured, along with several of our good colleagues from the Donegal Railway Heritage Centre and RPSI Whitehead. Why, oh why, oh why, though, have they a black dome on "Drumboe"! Fix it, lads, fix it before I run outta smelling salts..........! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galteemore Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 (edited) Putting the camera in Drumboe’s cab did give a nice little segment of footage near Cloghan Point. Could almost have been the Barnesmore Gap but for the sea! Edited April 18, 2023 by Galteemore 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob229 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Surprised to see 29k in Belfast, the show takes the train to Derry very scenic route and after it shows Drumboe return to Donegal stopping at various points of the former railway line, good to see some railway heritage on Rte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 1 hour ago, jhb171achill said: RTE included a shot of Inchicore Works, footgae of T & D cattle trains at Castlegregory junction, and interior shots of a driver in a West Clare "F" class diesel. Typical lazy research. At least it didn't have A4 Pacifics this time! Another blooper was mention of 'two railway companies in Donegal', they forgot about the poor old GNR. They had some excellent ACTUAL CDR/LSR footage. I wouldn't mind but there isn't really a shortage of still CDR/LSR images they could've used instead of stock 'old timey train' footage trotted out for such features. Imagine the uproar if they had gotten sports teams and personalities from different counties mixed up! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted April 18, 2023 Author Share Posted April 18, 2023 They were offered archive film and photos of both the Swilly and the CDR. TG 4 are showing a programme soon on the Fintown Railway. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 39 minutes ago, airfixfan said: They were offered archive film and photos of both the Swilly and the CDR. TG 4 are showing a programme soon on the Fintown Railway. I wonder will it show a South African 12AR threading its way through the Finntown area, or a West Cork 4.6.0T? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted April 18, 2023 Author Share Posted April 18, 2023 (edited) Discovered this evening that TG 4 let us know today that it was shown on Sunday 16th on the Tourism Show. On TG Iplayer for a month! Edited April 18, 2023 by airfixfan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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