Finn Valley Railway

The Finn Valley Railway (FVR) was an Irish gauge (5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)) railway in Ireland.

Finn Valley Railway
Industryrailway
Fatetaken over
SuccessorDonegal Railway Company
Founded1860
Defunct1892
Headquarters
Stranorlar
,
Ireland
Area served
Donegal, Tyrone

History

Incorporation

The Finn Valley Railway Company was incorporated on 15 May 1860 with capital of £60,000 (equivalent to £5,680,000 in 2019).[1]

Personnel

The Chairman of the directors was The 4th Viscount Lifford, whose seat was Meenglass Castle, just south-east of Ballybofey, and the Deputy-Chairman was James Thompson Macky of the Bank of Ireland in Derry.[2]

The other directors were:

The other offices of the company were:

  • James Alex Ledlie, Stranorlar, Secretary
  • Peter W. Barlow, 26 Great George Street, Westminster, Consulting Engineer
  • John Bower, Engineer

Opening

They built a railway line to Irish gauge (5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)) between Stranorlar and Strabane which opened on 1 October 1863.

Operation

The directors entered into a contract with the Irish North Western Railway to work the line for a period of 10 years. This company became amalgamated with the Great Northern Railway (Ireland)[3] in 1876.

Merger and gauge conversion

In 1892 it merged with the West Donegal Railway into a new company, the Donegal Railway Company. The line from Stranorlar to Strabane was reconstructed to (3 ft (914 mm)) gauge shortly afterwards.

Footnotes
  1. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  2. Bradshaw's railway manual, shareholders' guide, and official directory. W. J. Adams, 1864
  3. The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland, William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Dept. of the Environment, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984
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