Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway
54°59′38″N 7°19′34″W / 54.994°N 7.326°W
Industry | railway |
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Founded | 1845 |
Defunct | 1883 |
Fate | taken over |
Successor | Great Northern Railway (Ireland) |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Donegal, Fermanagh, County Londonderry, Tyrone |
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The Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (L&ER) was an
.Construction and opening
The Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway was incorporated in 1845.
The line reached its summit at Fintona, County Tyrone, in 1853. Its final extension was from Fintona Junction, descending southwestwards to its terminus at Enniskillen, reached in 1854.[4] Fintona Junction was just north of the town of Fintona, leaving the short stretch from the Junction to the town as a small branch line.[4]
In 1859 the
In 1868 the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway opened, linking the Atlantic Coast towns of Bundoran and Ballyshannon with the L&ER at Bundoran Junction.[4]
Operation and takeover
In 1862 the D&ER renamed itself the Irish North Western Railway (INW).[6] In 1876 the INW merged with the Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway to form the Great Northern Railway (GNR).[6] The L&ER's lease continued and the company remained separate until the GNR absorbed it in 1883.[6][7]
In 1857 a cow strayed onto the line near
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After takeover
Under the Great Northern the former L&ER developed in three sections. The junction with the PD&O at Omagh made the Londonderry – Omagh line part of the GNR's "Derry Road" main line with services between
The Omagh – Enniskillen line via Fintona Junction became a secondary route, and in 1957 the
In 1958 the governments of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland partitioned the GNR between them and the Derry Road became part of the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA). The line was closed in February 1965.[11]
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Footnotes
- ^ a b FitzGerald 1995, p. 1
- ^ "Derry's Railways". Your Place and Mine. BBC. Archived from the original on 12 March 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
- ^ "The Evolution of Public Transport in the North West of Ireland". West Tyrone Historical Society. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Hajducki 1974, map 7
- ^ Patterson 1962, p. 10.
- ^ a b c Hajducki 1974, p. xiii
- ^ Patterson 1962, p. 11.
- ^ a b c FitzGerald 1995, p. 4
- ^ a b c d FitzGerald 1995, p. 3
- ^ Hajducki 1974, map 3
- ^ a b Hajducki 1974, map 39
Sources
- FitzGerald, J.D. (1995). The Derry Road. Colourpoint Transport. Vol. 2. Gortrush: ISBN 1-898392-09-9.
- Hajducki, S. Maxwell (1974). A Railway Atlas of Ireland. Newton Abbot: ISBN 0-7153-5167-2.
- Patterson, Edward M. (1962). The County Donegal Railways. Dawlish: David & Charles. pp. 10, 11.