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The Bangor Line originated with the incorporation of the Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway (BHBR) on June 26, 1846. The first section of the line, running from Belfast to Holywood, opened on August 2, 1848. The line was extended to Bangor on May 1, 1865, and subsequently acquired by the Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) in 1884. [3]
The Dublin-Belfast Line or The Great Northern Main Line (Dublin line by NI Railways and Belfast line by Irish Rail) is a 112-mile (181 km) semi-electrified railway connecting Belfast Grand Central in Northern Ireland to Dublin Connolly in the Republic of Ireland. The key towns and cities of Skerries, Drogheda, Dundalk, Newry, Portadown, Lurgan ...
Dundonald railway station was on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Newcastle, County Down in Northern Ireland. It was located 4 miles 78 chains (8.0 km) from Belfast Queen's Quay .
The Belfast Central Railway (BCR) was a railway company operating in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company was incorporated by the Belfast Central Railway Act 1872 ( 35 & 36 Vict. c. clxxi) and acquired by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in 1885.
The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain. By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km). The current status is less than half that amount, with a large unserviced area around the border area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The Belfast Central Railway was re-opened in 1976 following the completion of the Belfast Central Line Project, which involved the relaying of track along the route of the former line, and this saw the Belfast Terminus moved to the newly constructed Belfast Central Station in April of that year. The new station was named after the former ...
The first attempt to bring a railroad to Belfast, a Penobscot Bay port city that was Waldo County's shire town, came on March 9, 1836, when the Maine Legislature passed "An Act to establish the Belfast and Quebec Railroad Company", but any prospects for financing the project were quickly killed by a provision in the Maine Constitution that prohibited public loans to build railroads and by the ...
The Northern Irish railway network is currently 330.58 km (205.41 mi). The main passenger line operates from Portadown to Bangor. In addition to this, Translink also provides rail services between Belfast and Derry to the north and Newry to the south, continuing across the border, which is part of the fast Enterprise service between Belfast and ...