RAILSCOT | Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)

Introduction

This branch completed the Longford Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) extending it north west to Sligo.

Dates

/ /1857	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Act gives permission for line from Longford to Strokestown, Boyle and Sligo.
/ /1859	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Deviation Act for the 1857 Sligo branch Act, for avoidance of mid-Roscommon (Great Northern and Western Railway territory).
/ /1862	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Opened from Longford (Longford Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)) to Sligo.
/ /1864	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Permanent station at Sligo opened.
/ /1864	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Sligo to Ballysodare doubled.
/ /1874	Sligo and Ballaghadereen Junction Railway Opened from Kilfree Junction (Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)) to Ballaghadereen.
/ /1882	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Double track extended from Ballysodare to Carrignagat Junction, in anticipation of the opening of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway.
/ /1883	Cavan, Leitrim and Roscommon Light Railway and Tramway Incorporated. Act for a narrow gauge line from Dromod (exchange with the Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)) via Ballinamore [Leitrim] to Belturbet (exchange with the Belturbet Branch (Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway)). Act includes a branch from Ballinamore [Leitrim] to Arigna.
/ /1895	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Doubled from Collooney [MGWR] north to Collooney Junction (junction for the Collooney and Swinford Railway) Double track was not extended a little further north to the nearby Carrignagat Junction.
/ /1922	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Sligo station burned down.
/ /1928	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Sligo station replaced.
/ /1930	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Carrignagat Junction taken out, the line runs as two single track lines south from Ballysodare.
/ /1930	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Collooney [MGWR] north to Collooney Junction singled. Collooney Junction controlled by power points from Ballysodare.
/ /1959	Sligo Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Ballysodare to Sligo singled following the closure of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway in 1957.