Cavan-Leitrim railway to benefit from Government funding pot

The Cavan & Leitrim railway is set to benefit from a €170k Government funding pot for local and regional museums.

The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin has announced a series of small grants for local and regional museums around the country.

Projects funded under this Scheme seek to enhance the cultural offering of museums, to encourage greater access to museums and to promote the use of museums as tourism resources in their locality or region.

The money sanctioned to the Cavan & Leitrim railway is to go towards providing a steam locomotive 'Nancy' with an air brake so that the loco can operate safely with members of the public.

Almost ten thousand euro is being awarded to the project.