Donegal Railway Company Explained

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.

History

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.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Patterson, Edward M. . The County Donegal Railways . . 1962 . 0-7153-4376-9 . 1972 . England . 32 . en.
  2. The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland, William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Dept. of the Environment, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984
  3. The County Donegal Railway, a Visitor's Guide by County Donegal Railway Restoration Society