William leaving Ballinasloe for England

Here I am leaving from the same station and the same platform that my Mother left from during the war to go to England to train to be a nurse and again in 1946 to go to America.

Ballinasloe to Belfast

August 20th 2012
August 20 Ballinasloe to Belfast - Today I caught the train from Ballinasloe to Belfast. I wanted to follow the same route that my mother took when going to England during the war to train to be a nurse. She took the train from Ballinasloe to Belfast. Then from Belfast she took the ferry across the Irish Sea to Liverpool England. From Liverpool she went by train to Cambridge for her nurses trainin ... read more

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