Nearby stations Holyhead [2nd] Holyhead [1st] Valley Rhosneigr Ty Croes Llanerchymedd Rhosgoch Bodorgan Llangwyllog Llangefni [2nd] Amlwch Llangefni [1st] Holland Arms Ceint Rhyd-y-Saint | Holyhead Fish Dock Aluminium Works Wylfa Powerstation Rhosgoch Oil Depot Bodorgan Tunnel No 2 Bodorgan Tunnel No 1 Copper Pits Pary^s Mine Chemical Works Carnarvon Tunnel Carnarvon No 1 Junction Llanberis Junction Britannia Tubular Bridge Tourist/other Reservoir Caernarfon Castle |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |
/ /1859 | Chester and Holyhead Railway
North Wall Extension (Midland Great Western Railway) London and North Western Railway steamers from Holyhead serve Dublin North Wall, where the LNWR opens a Dublin North Wall [LNWR] station and sidings connected to the Midland Great Western Railway line, the station located just east of Dublin North Wall Goods [MGWR]. |
/ /1884 | City of Dublin Junction Railways Act passed to connect the Dublin and Kingstown Railway to other railways in Dublin (the ^Loop Line^). (Previously opposed by the London and North Western Railway for fear of loss of traffic from the Holyhead to Dublin North Wall route.) |
/ /1901 | International Engineering Congress, Glasgow Three tunnel routes considered from Scotland/Wales to Ireland: Mull of Kintyre to Antrim (revival of the 1868 proposal, rejected due to remoteness of Kintyre), Holyhead to Howth (rejected due to length), Wigtownshire to Larne/Donaghadee (passing north round the deep trench of the Beaufort^s Dyke). Latter considered most suitable with a route from north of Portpatrick to Whitehead. |
/ /1909 | London and North Western Railway Many Holyhead services relocated from Dublin North Wall [LNWR] to Dun Laoghaire. |
/ /1926 | Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway Passenger steamers from Holyhead withdrawn. Traffic patterns were impacted by the 1921 Partition. |
29/12/1951 | Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway Last steamer from Holyhead. |