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John was born in 1928. His family was from Bandon. His father worked on the Cork and Bandon Railway and was transferred to the city in 1929, the family living at Killbarry Cottages, Blackpool. The family moved to a house in Lower Road which was also…

John talks about some of his experiences working on the railway, and about his interest in greyhound breeding and racing.
He relates incidents from his working life on the trains, such as episodes of vandalism, and describes how a thief was caught.…