Michael Boyle spent most of his working life with the Great Northern Railway, an employment that came to an end with the closing of the Goraghwood-Newry-Warrenpoint line in 1965, an event remembered with sadness by the great majority of us older people. This is his story.
Though I was born on a small farm in the townland of Derrybeg in Newry, I spent most of my childhood in Omeath where my father, grandfather and great grandfather were born. I was educated at