From the town of Belfast to the City of Armagh
In 1836, an Act of Parliament allowed the Ulster Railway Company to build the first railway in Ulster from ‘the Town of Belfast to the City of Armagh’. The line reached Lurgan in 1841, Portadown a year later and the first trains rolled into Armagh in 1848.
The last train left Armagh on the 30 September 1957.
On display at the museum are guards’ hats, tickets, timetables and name plates of study engines like 'Slieve Gullion'. There is information on the Great Northern Railway, the Clogher Valley Railway, small industrial railways and information on Ireland's worst railway disaster.
Did you know?
- Ireland’s highest railway bridge is the Craigmore viaduct, near Bessbrook - its tallest arch is 140 feet above ground.
- At just one yard short of a mile, the Lissummon tunnel on the Newry – Armagh line was the longest in Ireland.
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