Donegal Railway Company | |
Successor: | County Donegal Railways Joint Committee |
Headquarters: | Stranorlar, Donegal |
Predecessors: | Finn Valley Railway, West Donegal Railway |
Start Year: | 27 June 1892 |
End Year: | 1 May 1906 |
The Donegal Railway Company (DR) was a gauge railway in Ireland.
Short Title: | Donegal Railway Act 1892 |
Type: | Act |
Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Long Title: | An Act for the Amalgamation of the Undertakings of the Finn Valley Railway Company and the West Donegal Railway Company and for other purposes. |
Year: | 1892 |
Citation: | 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxi |
Royal Assent: | 27 June 1892 |
Collapsed: | yes |
The company was formed via the (55 & 56 Vict. c. clxi) on 27 June 1892 by a merger of the Finn Valley Railway and the West Donegal Railway.[1]
One of the first acts of the new company was to convert the former Finn Valley Railway from Strabane to Stranorlar from to gauge, which it completed on 16 July 1894.[2] Further new lines were built with a Government grant of £300,000,:
Other extensions followed later:
In 1906 it was obtained by the joint interest of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland and the Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee which set up a new company, the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee.