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Apparently the JFK Arboretum in Ballybrazil, Co. Wexford has a miniature railway?

Here it is shown on OpenStreetMap:

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Here on Google Earth:

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And here on RailMapOnline (overlaid on Google Maps)

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And here's a link to the Miniature Railway World page on the line:

http://www.miniaturerailwayworld.co.uk/JFKennedy.html

This is all I can find on the railway, and given in the satellite view the line isn't very visible, at least compared to earlier years, OpenStreetMap and by extension RailMapOnline can be years out of date in some areas, and the Miniature Railway World page doesn't look like it's been updated since God was a boy, I was wondering if anyone knew whether the line is still going? I've never once even heard mention of it, I only found it because I noticed a small dot in a patch of Wexford when looking at RailMapOnline, and zoomed in to find it was a miniature line.

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Interesting. No recent TripAdvisor reviews mention the railway. A review in 2021 says ‘they got rid of the train’. Doubtless someone will know more. Something may have happened the loco or track work and OPW just decided it wasn’t worth sorting. Appropriate they had a US style loco but something with a NYC or Boston and Maine livery might have better suited JFKs New England connections than Santa Fe! 

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