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The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain. By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km). The current status is less than half that amount, with a large unserviced area around the border area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Railway Opened Closed Length Notes Ballycastle Railway: 1880: 1950: 17 mi (27 km) Ballymena and Larne Railway: 1877: 1950: 36 mi (58 km) Ruling gradient: 1 in 36 Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway: 1875: 1940: 16 mi (26 km) Highest railway in Ireland at 1,045 ft (319 m) Bessbrook and Newry Tramway: 1885: 1948: 3 mi (4.8 km) Castlederg ...
Stradbally Woodland Railway, County Laois; Waterford Suir Valley Railway, County Waterford, running a narrow-gauge railway for 10 km (6.2 mi) from Kilmeaden Station along the former mainline route from Waterford to Mallow. It operates alongside the Waterford Greenway and is Ireland's longest heritage line. [citation needed]
Auffay; Aumale; Barentin; Blangy-sur-Bresle; Bréauté-Beuzeville; Clères; Dieppe; Elbeuf-Saint-Aubin; Épouville; Étainhus-Saint-Romain; Eu; Fécamp; Foucart-Alvimare
1906 railway map. The first railway in Ireland opened in 1834. At its peak in 1920, Ireland had 5,600 km (3,480 mi) of railway; now only about half of this remains. A large area around the border has no rail service. Ireland's first light rail line was opened on 30 June 2004.
Belturbet was the former terminus station of both the 4¼ mile Ballyhaise to Belturbet branch of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) line and of the Cavan and Leitrim Railway. [1] For many years the station was somewhat derelict but it is now fully restored and houses a museum.
Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway: A succession of trains (here three are visible) bring milled peat to the Shannonbridge electricity generating station. The Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway was a former tourist attraction based on a narrow-gauge industrial railway in the Midlands of Ireland .
First railway line by country. Europe was the epicenter of rail transport and has today one of the densest networks (an average of 46 km (29 mi) for every 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) in the EU as of 2013). [10]