Stranorlar railway station
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Stranorlar Srath an Urláir | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Stranorlar, County Donegal Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 54°48′05″N 7°46′26″W / 54.8014°N 7.7740°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 3 September 1863 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | 6 February 1960 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Post-grouping | Finn Valley Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Stranorlar railway station served the village of Stranorlar in County Donegal, Ireland.
The station opened on 3 September 1863 on the Finn Valley Railway line from Strabane to Stranorlar.
One of the first acts of the new Donegal Railway Company was to convert the former Finn Valley Railway from Strabane to Stranorlar from 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) to 3 ft (914 mm) gauge, which it completed on 16 July 1894.[1]
The later railway extensions to Donegal by the West Donegal Railway and via Fintown railway station to Glenties by the Donegal Railway Company.
Stranorlar became the headquarters of the successor company, the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee.
It closed to passenger services on 31 December 1959. Goods trains continued to run between Stranorlar and Strabane until 6 February 1960
References
- ^ The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland, William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Dept. of the Environment, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984
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