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    Sep 02, 2018 3 minutes

    The Lough Swilly Railway (revised edition)

    Dr E M Patterson (with additional material by Joe Begley and Steve Flanders)

    A VERY welcome reprint of Dr E M Patterson’s superb book, first published in 1988, and now enhanced with additional material by Irish narrow gauge experts Joe Begley and Steve Flanders.

    If ever a railway was doomed to failure, it was the Londonderry & Lough Swilly. With its long, straggling lines traversing vast, almost empty tracts of north-west Ireland, much of it was built in an attempt to open up so-called‘congested districts’, where many residents lived in abject

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