Ballintra railway station
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Ballintra | |||||||||||
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 Railcars at Ballintra in the 1930s | |||||||||||
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| Location | Ballintra, County Donegal Ireland | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°34′52″N 8°08′33″W / 54.5812°N 8.1426°W | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 21 September 1905[1] | ||||||||||
| Closed | 1 January 1960[1] | ||||||||||
| Original company | Donegal Railway Company | ||||||||||
| Post-grouping | County Donegal Railways Joint Committee | ||||||||||
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Ballintra railway station was a Donegal Railway Company station on the Donegal to Ballyshannon line.[2][3] It was approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from the village of Ballintra, County Donegal in Ireland.
History
[edit]Opened in September 1905,[4] Ballintra was a station on the narrow-gauge railway line from Donegal Town to Ballyshannon. Located a short distance from the village, a local carriage service carried passengers to Ballintra.[5] The station had two sidings, a goods shed and cattle pens.[citation needed]
Originally operated by the Donegal Railway Company, the line and station transferred to the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee in 1906.[6]
As with other stations on the line, Ballintra station closed on 1 January 1960.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 24. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
Ballintra CDJRC [..] OP 21 September 1905 [..] CL 1 January 1060
- ^ Smith, W.A.C. (1957). "The County Donegal Railway". The Railway Magazine. 103: 300.
- ^ Patterson, Edward Mervyn (1969), A History of the Narrow-gauge Railways of North-west Ireland, Part 1 - The County Donegal Railways, A. M. Kelley, OCLC 16313920
- ^ a b "Ballintra station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ^ Home, Gordon; Mitton, Geraldine Edith, eds. (1912), Black's Guide to Ireland, Adam and Charles Black, p. xi,
Ballintra - Mr . John M'Vitty's cars attend all trains at Ballintra Railway Station for Ballintra Town. Fares - Ordinary passengers, 6d; market people, 3d each
- ^ "The Railways and Locomotives of the County Donegal Joint Committee". The Locomotive. 25. Locomotive Publishing Company: 66. May 1919.
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