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The Galway - Clifden Railway had a relatively short 40-year life and I will be covering the story of it's relatively short life and demise in a future video. For now I want to share some aeriel views of the line as it is today and the magnificent terrain it passes through. From seeing this footage you can hopefully get to appreciate the terrible loss of not having this railway line today on multiple fronts.
A project to revive Maam Cross Station and the adjacent segment of the old line is underway by a team of hard working volunteers. Full details of their work and progress is captured in the links below as well as a GoFundMe link where any contributions would be most welcome to help the team progress the project.
I hope to do a video on the fantastic work the Maam Cross team are doing in the next couple of months and track their progress going forward.
I'm really looking forward to travelling the line (at least some small part of it) in the near future.
Link to latest update video: • Connemara Railway Upda...
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Link to information on the Connemara Railway revival project:
www.connemararailway.ie/app/u...
Link to the Connemara Railway website:
connemaragreenway.ie/
Go Fund Me link:
gofund.me/68d57ef5
Links to short videos taken running on the temporary narrow gauge line in 2021:
• 28 June 2021
• Maam cross railway. 22...
Link to the Connemara Greenway website:
connemaragreenway.ie/
Attribution:
Drone Footage
Copyright of the author.
Not for reproduction without permission.
Photographs (in order of appearance):
Galway Viaduct (circa 1896)
from "Ireland in Pictures", J.S.Hyland & Co., 1898
Railway map of Ireland, 1906
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland...
Public Domain
The former MGWR station at Clifden, now the Clifden Station House Hotel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland...
Eoin Gardiner (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., "Clifden Station House", creativecommons.org/licenses/...
0-6-0 at Clifden Station
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway_...
Trainiac from Australia, CIE no. 589 (44704220350) , marked as public domain, details on Wikimedia Commons