All aboard for train series

The people, the stories and the quirky traditions surrounding the trains of West Cork are to be immortalised in a TV series that begins this week.

Two separate programmes in the six-part series are dedicated to the West Cork region — one to the West Cork Railway, and a second to its eccentric little sister, the Schull to Skibbereen tramway.

The TG4 series, Bóithre Iarainn, which begins this Thursday, investigates the stories and traditions around some of Ireland’s best-known railways, starting with a look at the Bundoran Express.