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LONDONDERRY & LOUGH SWILLY RAILWAY

2023 marks the 70th anniversary of the last trains to run on this wonderful Irish narrow gauge railway. It is not, however, the anniversary of the end of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway (L&LSR) as it continued to operate buses over its territory up until August 2014.

The three foot gauge railways, the County Donegal Railway (CDR) and the L&LSR have an

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