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the heritage operation was unable to open for the 2020 season, and expects to remain shut also for 2021 to protect its volunteers. Despite being too small an organisation to qualify for grant aid in Ireland the railway has managed to continue maintenance tasks in this period with the railway saying
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The privately owned Cavan & Leitrim Railway is based in the former Dromod Station, in Co. Leitrim. There is a transport museum, with narrow-gauge trains of several gauges, buses, planes, fire engines and artillery guns from World War I and World War II. It was originally intended to rebuild the
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in Wales where it first steamed on 23 March 2019 after twenty years of restoration work. The locomotive was shipped to Dromod, where it now resides. The line's first steam locomotive since preservation is 'Dromod' a Kerr Stuart Brazil class
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came from the same supplier in 1904. CLR numbers 2, 3, 4 and 8 were renumbered by adding an L suffix after the railway became part of the GSR. In 1933, after the closure of the
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were transferred, after the end of passenger services in 1939 and freight in 1953, to the C&L between 1941 and 1958 numbered 3T to 6T. Locomotive 3T was a
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though efforts are being made to purchase the locomotive and return it to Ireland. The chassis of a carriage formerly used by the railway is preserved at the
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line to Mohill but this is now most unlikely to happen. With the help of volunteers, trains are running on a short section of the line. The
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The Belturbet to Arigna part of the line ran from Belturbet to Ballinamore and from there through Ballyduff,
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One of the original locomotives, No. 2, and one of the original carriages, is preserved on display at the
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two-thirds of its track has been relaid to a high standard and progress continuing on capital projects.
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The Belturbet to Dromod part of the Cavan and Leitrim Railway ran from Belturbet through
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locomotives to the C&L line, renumbering them 10L to 13L. Four locomotives from the
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built by Hunslet in 1892, and 6T was the same type as 3T but built in 1898.
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The 54 km (34 mi) main line was built between
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Cavan & Leitrim Railway Guide Book and Stock List
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Index


3 ft
narrow-gauge railway
County Leitrim
County Cavan
Ireland
mine
Arigna
Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston
Kilronan Castle
Ballyfarnon
Ballinamore
light railway
tramway
Arigna
Lough Allen
The Rt. Hon.
Dromod
Belturbet
Ballinamore
Arigna
Tomkin Road
Ballyconnell
Bellaheady
Bawnboy Road
Killyran
Garadice
Ballinamore
Lawderdale
Fenagh

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