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DRUMBOE RESTORATION BACK ON TRACK

The restoration of former County Donegal Railways 2-6-4t number 5 Drumboe is firmly back on track at Heritage Engineering Ireland’s Whitehead base, after engineers, furloughed from the start of 2021, came back to work on 1 May.

The locomotive’s rolling chassis has been moved into the Henry Dunleath workshop where work is underway on replacing the cylinder cladding. A new bunker has been fabricated and, after

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