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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 ...
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 organisation organised a Peace Train from Dublin to Belfast - an actual train hired out for the day which brought hundreds of people across the border from all over Ireland as a symbolic gesture to protest the bombing of the railway line. [3] The group marched to Belfast City Hall where an open-air rally was held.
The Northern Counties Committee (Midland Railway) was an amalgamation of the Midland Railway with the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway which was formed on 1 July 1903. Additionally, the Carrickfergus Harbour Junction Light Railway 2 km (1 mi); was incorporated in 1882, opening in 1887 and was worked by the Northern Counties Committee.
Claremorris to Collooney Railway - Swinford Historical Society - 1996; Connemara Railway, The - Villiers Tuthill, Kathleen - 2003; Cork City Railway Stations, 1985, Colm Creedon, 1986; Cork and Macroom Direct Railway (the) Colm Creedon, 1960 (out of print) County Armagh Railway Album - McKee, Eddie - 1996; County Down, The - Arnold, R.M. - 1981
The date of vesting was set for 1 July 1903 and on 21 July 1903, the act of Parliament necessary for amalgamation passed into law as the Midland Railway (Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Purchase) Act 1903 (3 Edw. 7. c. cxxvii). Thus ended the separate existence of the railway that was affectionately nicknamed "Big Nancy Coming Running".
The company that operated the railway line, initially named the Banbridge, Newry, Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Company, was created by the Banbridge Junction Railway Act 1853. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The initial shareholders of the company included several local mill owners and linen producers, such as Thomas Ferguson , John Smyth, Robert McClelland ...
The Irish Railway Record Society has a library of Irish railway documents at Heuston station and charters an annual railtour. The Modern Railway Society of Ireland promoted interest in modern-day Irish Railways and charters occasional railtours, before it was wound up in 2024. Irish Traction Group based at Carrick-on-Suir.