The First Train to Achill (1941)

That was the time they were makin the railway from Westport to Achill and if the people could wait a little longer they could go on the train, but they couldn’t wait. There was only a small piece to be finished before the train would come to Achill. When they were bringin’the coffins home to Achill they finished the little piece someways to carry the train and that was the first train that came to Achill and it had a load of dead with her. That was in the Prophecy and it was in the Prophecy too that the last train that would come would have a load of dead too. That happened too when the 10 men from Achill burned in Scotland (in Kirkintilloch,Sept,1937) in a bothy. That’s the time they were liftin, the railway from Achill to Westport and when the ten coffins were comin’ home, they sent a special train from Dublin with them, and that was the last train that came to Sound (Achill Sound ) Now isn’t it hard to go beyond the Prophecy .(The train that took the coffins to the Sound was the last train Special train. The usual trains ran for a week or so afterwards.