Awards National Railway Heritage Awards: Ian Allan Railway Heritage Award (First Class): Received in 1992 in recognition of Downpatrick Station Building. Northern Ireland Tourist Board and British Airways Tourism Awards (Highly commended): Received for 'Best Project', December 1999. Heritage Railway Association Carriage and Wagon Award (Highly commended): Received in 1999 in recognition of GSWR carriage No. 836. Down District Council Tourism Heroes Award: Received in May 2008. Co-operation Ireland Pride Of Place Award: Received in November 2012. Heritage Railway Association Annual Small Groups Award: Received in 2014 in recognition of its involvement of young people and its excellent building and museum development. Heritage Railway Association Carriage and Wagon Award: Received in 2019 in recognition of the restoration of BCDR railmotor No. 72. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society Heritage Angel Awards (Highly commended): Received in October 2019 in recognition of the restoration of Bundoran Junction North signal cabin. National Railway Heritage Awards: Abellio Signalling Award (Highly commended): Received in December 2019 in recognition of the restoration of Bundoran Junction North signal cabin. Television and film appearances Children in Need Quiet Man Spoof (BBC One NI, 2001) Puckoon (2002) Flight to Freedom (BBC One NI, 2005) Rain (2005) A Potted History of Armagh (BBC One NI, 2006) Raising Steam, a 40-minute documentary of which the DCDR was the subject (BBC One NI, 2008) Our Wee World (BBC One NI/Barking Films, 2010) Christopher and His Kind, starring Matt Smith (BBC2/Mammoth Screen, 2011) Wodehouse in Exile, starring Tim Pigott-Smith and Paul Ritter (BBC 4, 2013) Walk the Line (Barra Best, BBC NI, 2014) The Lost City of Z, starring Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland (2015) A Patch of Fog, starring Stephen Graham (2015) The Woman in White (BBC, 2017) The Last Letter (BBC NI, 2018) Mrs Wilson (BBC, 2018) Agatha and the Truth of Murder (Channel 5, 2018) Extreme Railways, starring Chris Tarrant (Channel 5, 2019) Derry Girls (Channel 4, 2022) See also List of heritage railways in Northern Ireland History of rail transport in Ireland Sir John Macneil References Further reading External links Downpatrick & County Down Railway Heritage railways in Northern Ireland Transport in County Down Downpatrick Museums in County Down Irish gauge railways