SOS Support Our Steam appeal launched to help Stradally steam railway survive Covid-19
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The Irish Steam Preservation Society is appealing to the public to ensure that the Stradbally Woodland Railway and the National Steam Rally will be here long after Covid-19 has left.
Last March, the Society decided to close the Railway for the year due to Covid and shortly after, was forced to cancel the annual National Steam Rally.
The Society says its steam locomotive Róisín has been locked up in a shed all year but they are counting down the days until she can pull trains for the public again. In a different shed in England, another engine of is waiting to come home to Stradbally in steam for the first time in years. The Mann engine is a steam tractor belonging to the Society and a return to steam on home turf is imminent.