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The world's oldest known iron railway bridge, Pont-y-Cafnau was designed and built in 1793. On 21 February 1804 the first recorded steam-hauled journey on rails took place in Merthyr Tydfil from Penydarren to the Glamorganshire Canal.
The Irish Steam Preservation Society, based in Stradbally, County Laois, which operates the Stradbally Woodland Railway with vintage steam and diesel locomotives. The Irish Traction Group, based in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, which has a diesel locomotive collection at the site by the Limerick–Waterford railway route.
This is a list of heritage, private and preserved railways throughout the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies, and British Overseas Territories whether operational or closed, that are operated for charitable purposes or shareholder profit.
The Dublin and Kingstown line in 1837 Dublin and Kingstown Railway, by John Harris. Although a railway between Limerick and Waterford had been authorised as early as 1826 (the same year as Britain's first exclusively locomotive-drawn line, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway) [1] it was not until 1834 that the first railway was built, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR) between Westland ...
The Dublin and Lucan Steam Tramway operated a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge steam tramway service between Dublin and Lucan between 1880 and 1897. [1] The company was renamed as the Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Company as steam power was replaced by electricity in 1897. This service ran until 1925.
Nos 1 to 23 were from Dublin and Drogheda Railway; Nos. 24 to 41 from the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway; Nos. 43 to circa 78 from the Irish North Western Railway and Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway; Numbers in the eighties from the Newry and Armagh Railway and nos. 100 to 141 from the Ulster Railway. [5]
Prince of Wales with British Rail logo in 1981. The Great Western Railway became part of the Western Region of British Railways on 1 January 1948 and the line continued to operate a tourist service. [18] In the 1950s local managers ensured that the Vale of Rheidol line remained well looked after. The coaches carried British Rail's express livery.
The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as well as ordinary railway objectives. Its construction was hugely expensive, chiefly due to the cost of building the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait .