Steam hauled special at Drumsough - 1979

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Steam hauled special at Drumsough - 1979

Image: © The Carlisle Kid Taken: 1 Sep 1979

Former Great Southern & Western Railway class 101 (CIE class J15) 0.6.0 No. 186 heads through the remains of Drumsough station with the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland "Lough Foyle" railtour from Whitehead to Londonderry (Waterside). Once the junction for a branch line to Cookstown (closed 1959), Drumsough station closed in 1976 and little now remains.

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Image Location

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54.749742
Longitude
-6.264322