It has
more than verified all predictions as to its usefulness, and has proved a
blessing to north-west Donegal. My relations with the line by no means
ended with the inquiry, and more about it will later on appear in this
authentic history.
In the same year, 1897, with G. P. Culverwell, the engineer of my old
railway, the Belfast and County Down, as co-adjutor, I was entrusted by
Robertson with a similar inquiry concerning the Buncrana to Carndonagh
line (18 miles in length) also in Donegal, and also promoted by the
Londonderry and Lough Swilly Company. It was a smaller affair than the
Burtonport line, but involved similar pleasant and interesting work. This
line was also constructed and was opened in 1901.
Pleasant times, Joseph Tatlow, you seem to have had, and much variety and
diversion; but what of your own railway and your duties to it? Well,
these Parliamentary proceedings, arbitration cases, and light railway
adventures were, after all, only interludes, and I can conscientiously
say that the Midland line and its needs and interests were never
neglected. I am one of those who always believed that everything which
served to enlarge experience and mature judgment made a man more
competent for his daily work.
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