Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland
Vernersbridge railway station
Vernersbridge railway station in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Vernersbridge railway station is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
From the Wikipedia article
Vernersbridge railway station was a railway station in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The station was about 0.7 miles (1.1 kilometres) south of Clonmore and about 0.25 miles (400 metres) east of a substantial viaduct by which the railway crossed the River Blackwater.
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Background
History
The Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (PD&O) opened the station in 1858 as Verner's, named after local landowner William Verner. Mr Verner did not want a standard PD&O station building as at and , so at his request Verner's station was built to match his home at Churchill. The station had no signal box and its signals were worked by a ground frame. The newly formed Great Northern Railway (GNR) absorbed the PD&O in 1876 and doubled the track through Vernersbridge in 1899–1902. Vernersbridge was served by GNR passenger trains between and via . The GNR was nationalised in 1953 as the GNR Board, which closed Vernersbridge station in 1954. The Ulster Transport Authority took over…
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- Coordinates
- 54.4726, -6.6420
- Address
- | borough = Vernersbridge, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Sources
- wikidata: Q7922000 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Vernersbridge railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Vernersbridge railway station?
- Vernersbridge railway station is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4726°, -6.6420°.