The MGWR Works’ Last Loco An 80-plus year story

This story begins, 80 plus years ago in Dublin, Ireland. Hello there, my name's Callum Christie and this wonderful story is about my late great grandfather James Christie who was a foreman in the blacksmith shop and the boilersmith shop in the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) works, Broadstone, Dublin, Ireland from roughly the 1930s until 1957, having served his apprenticeship in the MGWR from 1907 to 1912. One day in the year 1939/1940 my great-grandfather, now a foreman in the blacksmith and boilersmith shop, started building a 3½ inch gauge 0-6-0 miniature steam locomotive in the MGWR railway works. My greatgrandfather continued to build this steam locomotive in the railway works throughout the 1940s and 1950s. After many years my great-grandfather had the locomotive built up to about 99%…

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