AFTER 98 years, peat haulage by rail came to an end on Bord na Móna (BnM) on March 29, when the last load of peat was hauled off the Bellair System near Ballycumber, Co. Offaly.
Several locomotives had been transferred in by rail after being made redundant elsewhere on the vast Boora/Blackwater system, to help remove the final peat stockpile. The final 20-wagon peat train operated on March 29,