 President, I'm keeping your company on around the North West. Now, history has been made with the historic Donegal steam engine, Grumvold, installed at the Donegal Railway Heritage Museum in Donegal town. And it's quite a milestone for not just the museum but for the county, because this is the first original Donegal steam engine returned to the county in many decades. And the manager there, Adam McCauhey, now joins us for streaming as well on YouTube and Facebook. Now, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, John, right over here. This is an historic engine in a number of different ways. But in particular, this was the last train to run here in Donegal. Is that correct? Yes, it was. Actually, Drombo was the very last engine in the 31st of December 1959. The very last train left was Drombo from Donegal town station here to go through Stronholder and they end up in Stravan. And that was the very last official steam train to run. There was some trains running in January, but that was more lifted than laying and that sort of thing anyway. But this engine is quite an historic one. And to have that engine back here on site, particularly is gratifying for us just to have it back here. There wouldn't have been much of a fanfare with there at the time. It was in a case where it just sort of faded out. Now, there was a lot of fuss when it arrived back here. It was at the tail end of last year, which was great. But when it was leaving, when it was sort of exiting for the last time, would there have been much of a fuss back then? I think people were shocked to hear that the whole, I mean, from looking at the newspaper articles and talking to people, I think people just thought it was a terrible decision. And this decision, of course, wasn't made locally. It was made further in Dublin. And there's always been this being, I suppose, Donegal, but not in the sixth stat. It has, there's been underinvestment. And this was at the time seen as another near the coffin in relation to investment in the Northwest and had a massive impact. And in fact, I think people were very emotional to a way of photographs of people at the send off here at Donegal Town and then at Sturban and whatever. And people were really shocked. And because it was, you know, it was used for everybody, not only for tourists, but for going to school, for commerce, for just getting about January. And it went all over Donegal. And of course, at that time, the government promised that they were going to install a lot of new infrastructure and new roads. But that didn't happen, as you know, until quite recently, like, and that, you know, it had a quite a major effect whenever the trains went. And I think people were very emotional about it at the time. And the one thing, John, we were surprised at was whenever we took the train back quickly on its return journey on a low loader and took it back to station, the more older people coming out who are very emotional about it saying that they never thought they'd actually see an original Donegal steam engine back here on site. And I have to say it was kind of taken back a bit by it. And we have people in tears, whatever I'm saying, they never, never thought they see a big red steam engine here back on site. So I have to say it's just been great. And we do have lots of people who come in and we had our official opening last week. And that was the same thing as people just were delighted to see the return of the original steam engine from the county. So those older people that you refer would have remembered the railway when it was here in Donegal, and now that there's an original train back, they're delighted and it's a bit of a surprise. It is. And we're getting people coming from near and far. There was a lot of coverage at the time, both locally and nationally, and also internationally in relation to the Donegal Railways. I've said John before, where you're looking at, Nick, it was the largest narrow gauge on these islands, plus also the Donegal network was one of the first, globally one of the first networks to have a combustion engine. That was a non-steam engine on tracks. And that's amazing. When I heard that fact, I kind of went, are you right? And that's what it was, you know, whatever. So it's quite famous globally, but it's only now that I suppose we're kind of, really tourism has taken off massively in Europe and further field, but it's only now that there's a major opportunity to develop this further. This museum has been here for a number of years, but it had to go through kind of a change where the last few years kind of bring it up to date. And that's what we have done. And Drombo is certainly the showpiece, but you might have remembered, too, in the last few weeks we got installed. I got funding through the Heritage Council and we got funding to install Ireland's first interactive steam cab. And that's for kids and adults, and it gives the sensation, but also it's an educational tune. And that was important because we wanted really to have something for younger ones and also older ones, but also something to give people the sensation of traveling in the steam train. But in relation to Drombo was particularly leader through DLCV that brought funding in. And then also Henry Forbes, who introduced the combustion engine, his grandson Graham made the donation, and that kind of got the ball rolling. And then with public funding and different things, it was great to make that happen and at it. And the same time, too, last week at the opening, it was part of a journey for us, but the journey hasn't stopped and we actually do have a phase two. The phase two is actually more ambitious and that is to run some Donegal stock near Donegal Town. So the next thing we're going to look at is doing a getting funding to do a feasibility survey, to look at options and look at locations and we're quite serious about it. But I thought that we needed to get the first phase to get a steam engine back on site to get people to come and say, God, we're serious about this and people keep asking about wouldn't it be great to have either a steam engine or a real car running locally to the town somewhere? So it's something that we pitched the politicians last week and we're now, I suppose, getting people talking about to take it on to the next phase. So if it was to happen, would it be Drombo? Possibly, but this Drombo actually has been restored more or less operational order than the entire train. The only bit that hasn't been restored is the boiler because whenever you restore the boiler, you get a 10-year certificate, it has the pressure test and that counts down as soon as you get it. And to get that certificate costs about 100,000. So what we will do is whenever, if we do, if Drombo does go into steam and it could go back into steam, then we would return a steam engine up just to get that boiler started. But that's an option. Drombo is an obvious thing, but also possibly a real car too. I have been talking to people about data, about the possibility of running a real car or something else or another bit of narrow gauge and there are lots of options and locations where I would love to run it. There's lots of suggestions, of course, but you have to work around funding and then timelines and farming and farmers and different things. So it's being considered. Yeah, it is considered at the moment and now, I said, people are returning to the museum here and I think a lot of people are shocked and really surprised about the transformation. I mean, really, it's now, I mean, I was talking to somebody this morning about saying, look, it's now become one of the wee hidden gems in Donegal, but it's actually, we're getting great reviews on Google and TripAdvisor, superb reviews continually now and they're actually coming to one of the musty if you're coming to Donegal town, like we're open nearly 365 days a year and you know, and we cater now for all age groups and just because of the new drumbo, the interactive signage, the new interpretive signage and also we've got a ride on rail which for kids is a smaller thing which are run during the summer and other things and just now people certainly are certainly coming back and visiting R2 and of course people if they're interested, we're only 300 meters or 300 feet from the town centre from the Diamond, only just below Donegal castle, quite easy to get to and open now the moment to Saturday most days and then after September, open six days a week, but as I said, people seemed to enjoy it and our staff are very good too, because they're an important part of it too, you can get around and chat to them and lots of people are coming back, both locals and also visitors to international. It's only a hop and a skip from the Diamond on foot and it's great, it's great for railway heritage and it's also great for Donegal town and there's, I mean, you wouldn't be getting all those positive reviews if there wasn't plenty to see and do there. I know there is and I said that's deliberately we've done that because a few years ago I would have been geared towards maybe older people and we decided really particularly to focus on families too, so we've a lot of software families to keep it entertained, we've got weed quizzes for kids, we've got the interact or receive cab, we've got a rail and other bits and pieces more than all to use it, really trying to keep it for everybody, but also tell that unique story and I have to say, John, it's for the entire county, it's not simply the County Donegal, we also do a lot on the Swilly and we brought out earlier this year a new book about the Swilly and we've done, so we're covering the entire the Swilly, the County Donegal and also the DNR and in fact this year's badge, which we've just we do a badge each year and this year is actually a swilly engine, I was looking to see if I had one to show you, but some of the day we have a, people can see a wee swilly engine there, green one, so we do, so we do one each year or whatever you know, so it's for the entire and it was you know from County Donut down to Petticole to Killie Beggs right across to Sir Norder and then of course into Sturban and Sir North, a wee bit to get me in there. You're even involved in the food festival this weekend, what's what's happening there? Well we're doing something a bit different, it's always one of my ambitions that we try and use these way of unique spaces here that are available for hire and we've had meetings, a group season, and for training and meetings and one thing another, but I always thought it would be great if we could do something like an Orient Express high dinner thing, so I would talk to the Chamber, actually your two go over this and others, but Mary from the Chamber contacted me to say they'd actually love to do it, so they're actually that's on tomorrow night and it's going to be done up, the carriage is going to be decorated like it would have been a high class Orient Express. It is, I wanted to express and I have to say they've got a fantastic food menu and I think what really surprised the Chamber who are doing great work with it, they've got a great range of events over the weekends who go on and check on their website and Facebook, but they advertise it not sure on how it would go and it's sold out within three hours, I mean phenomenal. I want to think so, you know that's what we want to do, John is just unusual to have unusual events here, and I think that's an obvious one, people and we're getting some people are dressing up and there's going to be singing outside or whatever, so sadly there's no tickets available, but maybe the next time they do it we might do they might do more than one night or whatever, you know. It's great and I can see why it's captured the imagination, something a bit different. Well there's some continuous success over there at the Donegal Railway Heritage Museum and keep in touch and as the development along the way, no doubt it will be in touch. Thanks now. Well thank you for that, bye bye.