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3rd Class News

Last week in pictures.........

More great pics have come in this week.. Keep sending them ....

Our Trip to the Railway

The train ran in Oldcastle from 1863 to 1963.During those years Oldcastle became a busy town. Farmers brought their cattle to the Fair Green to be loaded onto wagons to be brought off to Dublin for export. People from the town and the surrounding areas travelled to Laytown, Drogheda, Croke Park and Dublin , so the station was a very busy place.
Michael told us many stories about life around the train in our town. He remembered well watching the train go past as he ate his dinner when he came in from school and he fondly remembered the smell of the smoke as the train puffed its way past. He even told us that some underage football teams travelled on the train to Kells to play matches!

After talking in the classroom, we walked over to the station house and were treated to a very special chance to see inside.
We saw the ticket office where passengers bought their tickets and the platform where they waited to catch the train.
After that we walked along by the Co-op to see where the lorries waited to be filled up with heavy goods, such as coal and timber which were lifted on by the crane.
We had a great time learning about our locality and life in the past. We would like to thank Michael for all his stories and photographs of the train in Oldcastle.

A Look Back to the days of the train in Oldcastle.

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