🌳 Outdoor5–88–1212–16EducationalSeasonal openingMemberships available
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Downpatrick & County Down Railway is Ireland's only full-size heritage railway, run almost entirely by volunteers at Downpatrick station. Climb aboard vintage steam and heritage diesel trains for the trip through drumlin countryside to the ruins of Cistercian Inch Abbey (a Game of Thrones filming location). Your admission covers unlimited rides for the afternoon plus the railway museum and carriage gallery, where kids can dress up in period costume. The railway hosts family events through the year — Easter, summer steam days, Halloween's Phantom Flyer and the Christmas Lapland Express — and dogs travel free. Open on running days only (selected Saturdays and Sundays, seasonal; no weekday running), so check the website calendar before you travel.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Colouring book and pencils
- Kids' headphones
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Camera for them
- Travel sickness bands
- Waterproof jacket
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