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The County Donegal Railways Joint Committee operated an extensive narrow gauge railway system serving county Donegal, Ireland, from 1906 until 1960. The committee was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1906, which authorised the joint purchase of the then Donegal Railway Company by the Great Northern Railway of Ireland and the Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee. ==History of the Donegal Railways== On 1 May 1906, the Joint Committee was set up. The lines inherited by the Joint Committee totalled and were: * Finn Valley Railway (FVR) from Strabane to Stranorlar * West Donegal Railway line from Stranorlar to Donegal * The Donegal Railway Company lines between Stranorlar and Glenties, Donegal Town to Killybegs, Strabane to Derry, and Donegal Town to Ballyshannon The Joint Committee opened the Strabane and Letterkenny Railway on 1 January 1909, bringing the total mileage to . By 1912 the company owned the following assets:〔''Railway Year Book 1912'' Railway Publishing Company〕 * Locomotives and rolling stock: 21 locomotives; 56 passenger vehicles; 304 goods vehicles * Head offices and locomotive works at Stranorlar The Strabane to Derry line was completely owned by the Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee although it was operated by the CDJRC.〔The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Dept. of the Environment, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「County Donegal Railways Joint Committee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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