1862 – Railway Station, Ballymote, Co. Sligo
A variant of Wilkinson’s standard design along this line, Ballymote opened on 3 December 1862.
A variant of Wilkinson’s standard design along this line, Ballymote opened on 3 December 1862.
Similar in design to Dromod Station on the same line by the same architect, this is a fine solid Victorian railway station,
John MacNeill’s masterpiece, a long polychromuc brick station with the stately air of a great house.
Herne Hill station and the first section to be completed of a new line from Beckenham Junction to Victoria,
Nenagh was one of the larger towns to be served by the Great Southern & Western Railway line from Limerick to Ballybrophy.
Constructed by the Irish North Western Railway in 1862-63, and later extended by the Great Northern Railway which took over the INWR in 1883.
The station opened on 3 September 1863 on the Finn Valley Railway line from Glenties to Stranorlar.
Whiteabbey was the first major stop outside Belfast with the main station building on the up line constructed around 1863 with a canopy added fifty years later.
Drawing Courtesy of Andrew Kelly
Waterford originally had two railway stations – the North Station, where the current station is today –
Opened in 1865 and built at the expense of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ave, whose estate it was situated in.