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English: It has been a while since we visited Mr. O'Dea's collection and this shot, titled: "Ballaghdereen train & crew, Kilfree Junction, Co. Sligo." with the cabin crew standing on the deck of old 655 was taken at Kilfree in Co. Sligo. I wonder if we can identify any of the two men in the image! 
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Thanks to Eiretrains on Flickr and BealachanDoirín on Twitter we can confirm that pictured are driver Michael (Mick) Murray (left) and fireman Paddy Cassidy (right). O'Dea has a rather sad reference to Mick as follows: "Shortly before the line closed, Driver Mick Murray, walking in to Ballaghaderreen from Edmondstown where he lived, in the darkness of the winter morning, collapsed and died in the snow by the side of the line. His body was found when the train returned from Kilfree after daylight by the fireman Jimmy O’Grady who took the train out at 8 a.m.,and by Christy Plunkett the guard, who fired for him that morning."

Photographer: James P. O'Dea

Collection: James P. O'Dea

Date: 6 December 1960

NLI Ref.: ODEA 23/41

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Author National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Camera location53° 53′ 58.24″ N, 8° 34′ 51.2″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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