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The Ulster Railway was a railway company operating in Ulster, Ireland. The company was incorporated in 1836 and merged with two other railway companies in 1876 to form the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). ==History== The Ulster Railway was authorised by an Act of the UK Parliament in 1836 and construction began in March 1837. The first of line, between and , were completed in August 1839 at a cost of £107,000. The line was extended in stages, opening to in 1841,〔Hajducki, 1974, map 9〕 in 1842,〔Hajducki, 1974, map 8〕 and in 1848.〔 In 1836 a Railway Commission recommended that railways in Ireland be built to broad gauge. The Ulster Railway complied with this recommendation but the Dublin and Drogheda Railway (D&D) did not. In order for Dublin and Belfast to be linked without a break-of-gauge, in 1846 the UK Parliament passed an Act adopting a compromise gauge of for Ireland, to which the Ulster Railway's track was then re-laid. Extension of the Ulster Railway resumed, reaching in 1858,〔 in 1862〔 and on the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway, later the Irish North Western Railway (INW), in 1863.〔Hajducki, 1974, map 14〕 The Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway (D&BJct) between and Portadown was completed in 1853. This connected the D&D with the Ulster Railway, thus completing the main line between Dublin and Belfast. The Ulster Railway operated three lines that remained in the ownership of separate companies: the Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (PD&O), the Banbridge, Lisburn and Belfast Railway (BLBR) and the Dublin and Antrim Junction Railway (D&AJR). The PD&O reached in 1858〔 and in 1861,〔Hajducki, 1974, map 7〕 and the contractor, William Dargan, sold the Ulster a 999-year lease on it in 1860. The BLBR opened between Knockmore Junction and Banbridge in 1863,〔 and the D&AJR opened between Knockmore Junction and in 1871.〔〔Hajducki, 1974, map 5〕 In 1876 the Ulster Railway merged with the INW and the Northern Railway of Ireland (formed by a merger of the D&D and the D&BJct the previous year) to form the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). |} 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「Ulster Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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