Standard Gauge Railways in the North of Ireland.
Author: MORTON, R. G.
Belfast: Ulster Folk Museum, 1972 (3rd impression). 35 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
Transport Handbook No.5
CONTENTS:-
INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE PERIOD OF CONSTRUCTION, 1835-70
The Ulster Railway
Queen’s Quay to Holywood
The Belfast and Ballymena Railway
On to Newtownards
Railway Growth in the North West
Belfast to Dublin in eight hours
Completion of the Belfast-Dublin trunk line
Londonderry to Dublin via Enniskillen
Formation of the B.N.C.R.
Mid-Ulster Railways
The Irish North Western Railway
Newry in the Railway Age
The lines to Newcastle and Bangor
The Network completed
THE RAILWAY AGE AT ITS ZENITH, 1870-1914
The Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
The Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway
Formation of the Great Northern Railway .
Early G. N. Locomotives
Improvements in Rolling Stock and Services
The Armagh-Castleblayney Line
The Derry Central Line
B.N.C.R. Locomotives
The Belfast Central Railway and Suburban Services
THE PERIOD OF DECLINE AND CLOSURE, 1914-61
Effect of Political Division
The Railway Report, 1922 .
Improved Main Line Services
Decline of the D.N.G.R.
Format ion of the U.T. A.
The Enterprise Express
Closing of the B.C.D.R. and other lines
The Great Closure
MAPS (see centre page and inside covers)
ISBN: None/Unknown
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