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Photographs from The Last years of the Wee Donegal  
                           The County Donegal Railways in colour 1950-59
                           by Robert Robotham                  �13:99  see below for details
Above��.Looking towards the buffer stops at Ballyshannon on 16th August 1959, railcar No 18 and two wagons can be seen.  The smart Station Master�s house can be seen on the platform together with the station buildings beyond it.  St Anne�s Church of Ireland dominates the scene in the background. This is the burial place of the noted poet William Allingham.  Nowadays the church is illuminated at night
John Langford
Above��.Roses Gates on 15th August 1959. This was one of the many railcar stops and illustrates one of the many gated crossing named after the person occupying the gate keeper�s cottage. The date is 15th August 1959
John Langford
Above��..Railcar No 15 and two wagons leave Killybegs for Donegal, September 1957
C.Hogg / ColourRail
Above��.A view of class 5A 2-6-4T No2 Blanche (left, taking water) and class 5 No 4 Meenglas at Ballyshannon on 3rd August 1959.  Blanche was delivered in 1912 with sisters Alice and Lydia as No 2A Strabane. She was renamed and renumbered in 1928.  Blanche was stored at Strabane on closure, surviving to be purchased by the Belfast Transport Museum, and is now at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra, County Down.
Class 5 2-6-4T No 4 Meenglas was built in 1907 by Nasmyth Wilson as No 16 Donegal. She was superheated in 1926 and renamed and renumbered in 1937. Meenglas is now at the Foyle Valley Railway Centre
E.S.Russell / ColourRail
Many thanks to the author and publishers for allowing me to use  photographs from the book 'The Last Years of 'The Wee Donegal'.  The book costs �13.99 sterling and can be ordered over a secure line from
www.colourpoint.co.uk. The full book contains 107 full colour photos plus station diagrams and maps. A must for any railway enthusiast and lovers of Donegal. Click here for a direct line to the publishers
The book can also be obtained from the South Donegal Railway Restoration Society at Donegal Station, Donegal Town, Donegal, Ireland
Click here for a collection of photos as Robert Gallinagh walks along the old disused Donegal Railway from Ballyshannon to Rossnowlagh
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