Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,245 pages of information and 246,071 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway

From Graces Guide
1866.

In 1845 a new railway company, Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway (D&BJct), received royal assent for its Act to connect the Dublin and Drogheda Railway at Drogheda to the Ulster Railway at Portadown, thereby creating a rail link between Dublin and Belfast when the line was completed in 1852.

1868 Engineer is William McCartan; Consulting Engineer is James Barton.[1]

1875 The Northern Railway of Ireland was formed by a merger of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway with the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway.

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