Downpatrick and County Down Railway

The Downpatrick and County Down Railway is an Irish standard gauge history railway in County Down, Northern Ireland. It operates passenger trains with Irish steam and diesel locomotives and carriages on a part of the previous Belfast and County Down Railway mainline. Its 4 miles of tune connect the metropolis of Downpatrick with the nearby traveler sights of Inch Abbey and King Magnus' Grave, as well as Downpatrick Loop platform. The railway's Downpatrick terminus, positioned at the foot of Down Cathedral, carries an award-prevailing museum which homes a variety of railway artefacts.

These variety from restored locomotives and coaches to ancient railway relics and buildings from throughout the whole island. It is the most effective operational Irish fashionable gauge historical past railway inside the complete of Ireland. The railway first arrived in Downpatrick on 23 March 1859, with the crowning glory of the Belfast and County Down Railway's mainline from Belfast Queen's Quay railway station. The line firstly terminated at Downpatrick, however in 1869 a separate organization- the Downpatrick, Dundrum & Newcastle Railway- built an extension to the beach town of Newcastle.