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Clones

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Clones (1858-1957)

Opened on the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway.

Opened on the Ulster Railway.

Opened on the Cavan Branch (Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway).

Dates

/ /1855	Cavan Branch (Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway) Branch from Clones to Cavan authorised. The line was subscribed to by the Ulster Railway, Dublin and Drogheda Railway and Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway.
/ /1856	Ulster Railway Extension from Monaghan to Clones authorised.
/ /1858	Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Extended from Newbliss to Clones and Lisbellaw.
07/04/1862	Cavan Branch (Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway) Branch opened from Clones to Cavan (Cavan Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)). Worked by the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway. The line crossed the border between north and south six times between Clones and Redhills stations.
/ /1863	Ulster Railway Monaghan to Clones opened. The original Monaghan station, left on a short branch by the extension, is replaced. Double track used throughout.
/ /1932	Ulster Railway Monaghan to Clones singled.
/ /1947	Cavan Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Passenger trains withdrawn (also withdrawn in World War II). However, Cavan station remains open, served from the north by the former Cavan Branch (Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway) branch trains from Clones.
01/10/1957	Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Clones to Enniskillen [DandER] closed to passengers, goods, and closed entirely.
01/10/1957	Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Line closes with the withdrawal of Stormont Government support of the Great Northern Railway [Ireland]. The line cannot operate with closure of Dundalk to Enniskillen [D&ER] and Omagh, and Portadown to Clones and Cavan.
14/10/1957	Cavan Branch (Midland Great Western Railway) Cavan Branch (Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway) Cavan station closed following withdrawal of passenger trains via the Cavan Branch (Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway) branch from Clones.
14/10/1957	Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Dundalk to Clones closed to passengers.
14/10/1957	Ulster Railway Monaghan to Clones closed to passengers.
01/01/1960	Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Closed from Dundalk to Clones.
01/01/1960	Cavan Branch (Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway) Clones to Cavan branch closed.
01/01/1960	Ulster Railway Monaghan to Clones closed.

Books

A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Haddington, Macmerry and Gifford Branch Lines (Oakwood Library of Railway History)