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The emigrant returns

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Castlebar Train Station opened on 12 December 1862. Claremorris opened the previous May; Westport followed four years later. As travel times decreased, those desperate to trade the poverty of Mayo for the hope of a better life in one of the burgeoning cities across the Irish sea could be in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester or London in two days.

 

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