All aboard for rail travellers on night of nostalgia

IT WAS a case of “all aboard” for a night of nostalgia as a town remembered the end of its golden age of rail.

The West Cork Hotel tracked down some of the passengers who travelled on the last train into Skibbereen on Good Friday, 1961, and invited them to a special function to mark the event’s 50th anniversary.

Hotel owner Tim Looney said he was inspired to organise the event by the hotel’s close links to the railway.