We’re getting closer to our National Heritage Week trains on Sunday, August 25th 🚂 Powered by Arigna Fuels, round off the summer holidays with a relaxing train ride through our beautiful forest 🛤️ Tickets at irishsteam.net 🎟️ #HeritageWeek2024 #ConnectionsRoutesandNetworks

Are you coming to see us for National Heritage Week?🚂 Trains running 11am-4pm Aug 25th - get your tickets now on irishsteam.net 🎟 Make a day of it to round off the summer holidays with a picnic at our trackside seating area 🛤 Powered by Arigna Fuels 🔥 #HeritageWeek2024

We’re all set for today’s National Heritage Week trains 🚂 We’re open from 11am-4pm and you can get your tickets from the shop when you arrive 🎟️ See irishsteam.net for all the details 🚂 #HeritageWeek2024

That's a wrap for #HeritageWeek2024 in Laois! Here's just a snapshot of the many excellent events this week Laois Libraries Dunamaise Arts Centere Ballykilcavan Stradbally Woodland Railway

We had a fantastically busy day today for our National Heritage Week trains! 🚂 Thanks to everyone who came out to see us and to Laois Heritage for supplying the decorations for the station and the engines! 🚂 Did you come see us today? Post your photos below! ⤵️

Carbon neutral heritage, built in 1949 to run on turf and now running on biomass made in Leitrim, one of the great survivors of the Industrial past of Laois and Offaly LM44 "Róisín" Stradbally Woodland Railway Laois Heritage

Another Sunday means another day of work for our volunteers painting, cleaning Róisín inside and out, shunting engines and wagons back in to their normal positions after Heritage Week and, maybe most importantly, watering the plants on the embankment 🚂

Our Bord na Móna expert Seanie is giving an illustrated lecture for Laois Heritage on Sept 19th in the Midlands Hotel, Portlaoise, covering the vanishing industrial railways of Laois and the Midlands 🚂 Email [email protected] for more information!