Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway

Introduction

This railway connected Sligo to Enniskillen.



Dates

  /  /1875Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Incorporated.
  /  /1879Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Opened from Enniskillen [SLandNCR] platform to Belcoo.
  /  /1880Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Extended from Belcoo to Glenfarne and Manorhamilton.
  /  /1881Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Extended from Manorhamilton to Collooney [SL&NCR].
  /  /1882Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)
Double track extended from Ballysodare to Carrignagat Junction, in anticipation of the opening of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway.
  /  /1882Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Extended from Collooney [SL&NCR] to Carrignagat Junction.
  /  /1883Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Enniskillen [SLandNCR] platform closed, replaced by access to Enniskillen [DandER].
  /  /1890Claremorris and Swinford Railway Collooney and Swinford Railway
Light railway companies created for the Waterford and Limerick Railway to complete from Claremorris (Great Northern and Western Railway)to Sligo Collooney Junction (Midland Great Western Railway). Initially proposed by the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway.
  /  /1890Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
In receivership.
  /  /1895Collooney and Swinford Railway
Connection under the Midland Great Western Railway to the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway near Collooney Junction opened to goods.
  /07/1896Claremorris and Swinford Railway Collooney and Swinford Railway
Connection under the Midland Great Western Railway to the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway near Collooney Junction opened to passengers.
  /  /1897Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Leaves receivership.
  /  /1921Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Finances desperate following the Partition of Ireland, traffic which would have flowed over the line to Belfast hugely reducing.
01/10/1957Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway
Line closes with the withdrawal of Stormont Government support of the Great Northern Railway [Ireland]. The line cannot operate with closure of Dundalk to Enniskillen [D&ER] and Omagh, and Portadown to Clones and Cavan.
  /  /1959Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)
Ballysodare to Sligo singled following the closure of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway in 1957.