The Ulster Railway should be operated in cross country between Northern Ireland and Rep. of Ireland and the operational by Irish Rail, NI Railways, and National Rail in Britain 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🛤️
Hey Paddy, just discovered your video after walking the new trail from the new trailhead below Muckish. Fascinating footage. Do you know if anyone has ever attempted to walk / bushwhack the whole route from Letterkenny to Burtonport? From what I can see on the maps it would be a mixture of bushwhacking, established paths and sections converted to road. Also with a potential bit of landing in angry farmers back gardens. Could it be done Paddy?
I wouldn't be sure? It's a trip I've thought about doing alright, at least some of it. Try taking a look at it on Google Earth, it might give you an idea.
@highlandpaddy2756 I've got a GPX track loaded into google maps and I'm starting to look at the bits viable for walking / exploration. I'm going to start on the Burtonport end and see what can be walked. Clearly, some of it is ripe for future greenway projects and I'd love to explore it now while it is still wild and forgotten.
Now see Ballydehob bridge on the Schull to Skib. railway line. Magnificent and entire last time I looked at it. Bridges get damaged by opportunists also, looking for building materials.
that's mad. my great grandfather worked on the construction of it! I only recently found that out or i'd have said so in the vid! I assume he survived as you wouldn't be able to type that comment!
As someone who was born and lives in London I often watch lost railways covering the list railways from Industrial North or Scottish Moors but thus seems some of the remotest but must have been terrible blow to locals with the loss of railway jobs and ability to bring jobs and industry to the area . When did railway close ?
Hey. They closed in the 1960s. Aye, they were a big loss when they went. It affected everyone, shopkeepers, farmers, hotels, everything. All the old people who remember the railways still speak very fondly of them, lamenting their loss to this day. I think Donegal is still the only part of Ireland that has no railway old or new. It's very much a forgotten and neglected county compared with the rest of Ireland, but that has its advantages as well, particularly if you're not too keen on rapid industrial development! Cheers for the comment!
Another gem exploring the hidden places of Donegal. Paddy, you remind me of an naturalist I used to know called Ronnie Carelton, he had a nature notes column in the Democrat and wrote a great wee book called Animal Tracks and Tracking. I took him all around Slieve League which was my stomping ground and he was more of a Derryveagh and Blue Stacks man.
i climbed all them mountains too. I have plans this summer to cross the whole Derryveaghs in one go, from one end to the other, do a bit of camping/fishing/drinking and tell a few stories. Plans to do the same in the Bluestacks. Crossing them all in one walk has been on the long finger for years so hopefully this summer I'll give it a lash.
Yaho yahure ye! That'll teach ye to be tramping through the fields without your right boots on n the stick left behind the door. Get away on back to the house and be sure to let us know the next time ye want to be going up there on your own for fucks sake.
Hi Tom, aye probably, i'm just very busy with work and when i'm not working i'm trying to re-roof me house so i don't have much free time this weather.
Herself here wantsa tiny leak fixed yesterday. God you're off in the far north. Different world to lads down a bother here in laois. Snowflakes down here call a breezy day fuckin weather event .Anyway il leave ye alone paddy . Fairplay to ye doing it all yourself.
@@highlandpaddy2756 facebook.com/PatrykSadowskiPhotography/photos/846547225372162/ and another one but more recent facebook.com/PatrykSadowskiPhotography/photos/2339466919413511/ Great Videos... I'm in the middle of part two :)
We might get these railways back someday maybe just to letterkenny
The Ulster Railway should be operated in cross country between Northern Ireland and Rep. of Ireland and the operational by Irish Rail, NI Railways, and National Rail in Britain
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🛤️
i agree
Hey Paddy, just discovered your video after walking the new trail from the new trailhead below Muckish. Fascinating footage. Do you know if anyone has ever attempted to walk / bushwhack the whole route from Letterkenny to Burtonport? From what I can see on the maps it would be a mixture of bushwhacking, established paths and sections converted to road. Also with a potential bit of landing in angry farmers back gardens. Could it be done Paddy?
I wouldn't be sure? It's a trip I've thought about doing alright, at least some of it. Try taking a look at it on Google Earth, it might give you an idea.
@highlandpaddy2756 I've got a GPX track loaded into google maps and I'm starting to look at the bits viable for walking / exploration. I'm going to start on the Burtonport end and see what can be walked. Clearly, some of it is ripe for future greenway projects and I'd love to explore it now while it is still wild and forgotten.
Sounds like a plan! Go for it. I might try a section of it in the summer when I'm off, bit of camping and all.
Now see Ballydehob bridge on the Schull to Skib. railway line. Magnificent and entire last time I looked at it. Bridges get damaged by opportunists also, looking for building materials.
My Great Grandfather was on the train that night it blew off the Viaduct
that's mad. my great grandfather worked on the construction of it! I only recently found that out or i'd have said so in the vid! I assume he survived as you wouldn't be able to type that comment!
That was great Paddy, cheers
Fabulous video I was laughing 😂 when you were walking through the mud shoeless on one foot
so much for the fecking path hahahhah
That looks really fun! I must try that next time I'm home.
As someone who was born and lives in London I often watch lost railways covering the list railways from Industrial North or Scottish Moors but thus seems some of the remotest but must have been terrible blow to locals with the loss of railway jobs and ability to bring jobs and industry to the area .
When did railway close ?
Hey. They closed in the 1960s. Aye, they were a big loss when they went. It affected everyone, shopkeepers, farmers, hotels, everything. All the old people who remember the railways still speak very fondly of them, lamenting their loss to this day. I think Donegal is still the only part of Ireland that has no railway old or new. It's very much a forgotten and neglected county compared with the rest of Ireland, but that has its advantages as well, particularly if you're not too keen on rapid industrial development! Cheers for the comment!
Another gem exploring the hidden places of Donegal. Paddy, you remind me of an naturalist I used to know called Ronnie Carelton, he had a nature notes column in the Democrat and wrote a great wee book called Animal Tracks and Tracking. I took him all around Slieve League which was my stomping ground and he was more of a Derryveagh and Blue Stacks man.
i climbed all them mountains too. I have plans this summer to cross the whole Derryveaghs in one go, from one end to the other, do a bit of camping/fishing/drinking and tell a few stories. Plans to do the same in the Bluestacks. Crossing them all in one walk has been on the long finger for years so hopefully this summer I'll give it a lash.
great video, i love Donegal
Yaho yahure ye! That'll teach ye to be tramping through the fields without your right boots on n the stick left behind the door. Get away on back to the house and be sure to let us know the next time ye want to be going up there on your own for fucks sake.
HOWYA PADDY . WOULD U MIND ME ASKIN YOU .WOULD THERE BE ANY HOPE OF SEEIN ANOTHER ONE A YOUR VIDEOS PLEASE .
Hi Tom, aye probably, i'm just very busy with work and when i'm not working i'm trying to re-roof me house so i don't have much free time this weather.
Herself here wantsa tiny leak fixed yesterday. God you're off in the far north. Different world to lads down a bother here in laois. Snowflakes down here call a breezy day fuckin weather event .Anyway il leave ye alone paddy . Fairplay to ye doing it all yourself.
@@tombyrne6559 No worries Tom! Thanks for watching and all the comments! Hopefully I'll get out for a wee dander over Christmas.
Did you saw my photo Paddy ? I think I left a comment last night
No?
@@highlandpaddy2756 facebook.com/PatrykSadowskiPhotography/photos/846547225372162/ and another one but more recent facebook.com/PatrykSadowskiPhotography/photos/2339466919413511/ Great Videos... I'm in the middle of part two :)
@@PatrykSadowski wow! that's cool man! cheers for sharing.
@@highlandpaddy2756 Love old Donegal Railway :D Keep up the videos coming !
@@PatrykSadowski Will do, cheers¬!
Great stuff paddy
cheers