Old Lough Swilly Railway Video Featuring Derry, Fa

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by 1950 all that remained of the once extensive system operated in the north and northwest of Carter Tony goal by the Londonderry and looks really real we where the branches from Derry to Letterkenny and burn Crona the line beyond Letterkenny to Burton port which we covered in volume 3 of this series and that from brain crown Otakon Donna are already closed by this time this is penny Burnham dairy where the company had its works for six Oh tank number three built by Andrew Bartley in nineteen hundred and three for the opening of the Burton port line is seen and shared at fawn on the shores of Loch Swilly north of Derry we are waiting the arrival of the goods from Derry to bring Crona which conveyed a carriage at the rear for any passengers who were not in too much of a hurry to reach their destination and here she comes hold by for six to ten key number ten built by Keira Stewart in 1904 and originally named Richmond the third wagon in the trail is a CDR one despite operating in the same county rep swelly and Danny gold wagons had draw here of different heights and only a few specially modified CDR wagons could be conveyed in Lough Swilly trains learn from Londonderry tebron Khurana was built as a broad gauge root opening in 1864 it was converted to the three-foot gauge in 1885 and extended with government money some eighteen and a half miles north to kondañña in 1901 the extension lasted only 34 years closing in 1935 Fred traffic on the branches to Letterkenny and when Khurana ceased in July 1953 three years after these scenes were recorded however the company continued to operate buses and lorries long after its rail services had ended these vehicles proudly proclaiming that they were the property of the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company
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Channel: Glengollan FIB
Views: 19,557
Rating: 5 out of 5
Keywords: Londonderry (City/Town/Village), Buncrana (City/Town/Village), Fahan (City/Town/Village), Lough Swilly (Body Of Water), Old, Ireland, Year, firebox Grill, Railway Tavern
Id: 6q5tvZ0ByhM
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Length: 2min 10sec (130 seconds)
Published: Sun Jan 18 2015
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