Castlerea Railway Museum

[1][2] This small, privately-run, museum displays the collection of railway enthusiast Sean Browne, who began to collate railway memorabilia in the 1950s: Exhibits include signals, lamps, bells and tokens over warning plaques, posters, timetables and station boards.

The first centrepiece of the museum was a Metropolitan-Vickers A Class locomotive, introduced in 1955 by Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) as part of the "dieselisation" programme that helped eliminate steam on Irish railways by April 1963, and was acquired in 1994.

[3][4] The locomotive, which would have cost £100,000 at the time of construction, was acquired from CIÉ by Sean Browne, as the only bidder, for a scrap value of £1,600.

[2][5] At the time of its installation it was the "only pub of its kind in Ireland to uniquely feature a full-scale train within the bar".

[6] On 10 January 1992, Seán Doherty, TD gave a television interview in the adjacent pub, which ultimately lead to the resignation of Taoiseach Charles Haughey.