Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway
{{Short description|Former Rail operating company in Ireland}}
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{{Infobox rail line
| name = Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway
| image = Siding, Tanderagee station - geograph.org.uk - 2689235.jpg
| caption = Tanderagee railway station in 1981 on the Belfast-Newry railway line
| status = Closed
| locale = North of Ireland (geographically, not the nation)
| open = 1849
| close = 1853
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Dublin and the Belfast Junction Railway (D&BJct) was an Irish gauge ({{RailGauge|5ft3in}}) railway in Ireland. The company was incorporated in 1845 and opened its line in stages between 1849 and 1853, with the final bridge over the River Boyne opening in 1855. It linked the Ulster Railway (UR) from Belfast to Portadown and Dublin and Drogheda Railway (D&D) from Drogheda to Dublin, completing the missing link in the Belfast–Dublin line.
History
The Boyne Viaduct at Drogheda was not built until 1854–55, at a cost of £124,000, to the design of Sir John Macneill, who was the consulting engineer for the D&BJct.{{cite web |last=Holohan |first=Michael |title=Drogheda Port. A Detailed History |work=Drogheda Port website |url=http://www.droghedaport.ie/cms/publish/article_21.shtml |access-date=2007-09-01}}
Route
The D&BJct line from Drogheda to Portadown connected the Ulster Railway's {{stnlnk|Armagh}} – {{stnlnk|Portadown}} – Belfast {{rws|Great Victoria Street}} original line with the Dublin and Drogheda Railway's Dublin Amiens Street – Drogheda line, forming the main line between Dublin and Belfast.
Aftermath
In 1875, the D&BJct merged with the Dublin and Drogheda Railway (D&D), forming the Northern Railway of Ireland.{{cite journal |last=Friel |first=Charles P |title=Railways in Craigavon |journal= Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society |volume= 2 |issue= 2 |url= http://www.geocities.com/craigavonhs/rev/frielrailwayscraig.html |access-date=2009-09-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027094054/http://geocities.com/craigavonhs/rev/frielrailwayscraig.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-27}} This was in turn one of the companies that amalgamated to form the Great Northern Railway of Ireland in 1876.
See also
References
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Sources
- {{Book-Ahrons-British Steam Railway Locomotive}}
- {{cite book|title=Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century|publisher=W Heffer & Sons Ltd|volume=six|last=Ahrons|first=E. L.|editor=L. L. Asher|date=1954}}
- {{cite report|title=An Industrial Heritage Survey of Railways in Counties Monaghan and Louth|chapter=13 Drogheda–Oldcastle Line
|last1=Hamond|first1=Fred|first2=Charles|last2=Friel|date=December 2007|work=Monaghan CC & Louth CC
|url=https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/services/heritage/publications/railwayheritagerecordingreaserch.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=24 May 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524112301/https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/services/heritage/publications/railwayheritagerecordingreaserch.pdf}}
Category:Railway companies established in 1845
Category:Railway companies disestablished in 1875
Category:Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
Category:Defunct railway companies of Ireland
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