The Government of Northern Ireland made the GNR Board close the Omagh – Enniskillen line in 1957.

In 1957 the Government of Northern Ireland made the GNR Board close the line between and the border, giving the GNRB no option but to withdraw passenger services between the border and Clones as well.

In October 1958 the old GNR ( I ), ( now the Great Northern Railway Board, or GNRB ) was split between Northern Ireland ’ s Ulster Transport Authority ( UTA ) and the Republic ’ s Coras Iompair Éireann ( CIE ).

In 1953 the railway was nationalised as the GNR Board, which closed the line through Dromore on 29 April 1956.

Governments on both sides of the border subsidised the railway in its later years, but the SL & NCR closed on 1 October 1957 as a result of the Government of Northern Ireland making the GNR Board close its line through Enniskillen.

When plans for the Robin Hood Line were drawn up, it was decided to stay with the GNR route through Kirkby-in-Ashfield ( to avoid having to buy back land ), then swing southeast via Kirkby South Junction onto the former Great Central Railway main line from Manchester to London.

In 1955 the UTA closed the ( by then freight-only ) branches to Cookstown and Limavady, and the line between Castlewellan and Newcastle, County Down ( which was worked by the GNR ).

In 1959 the UTA closed the ( by then freight only ) remaining Magherafelt — Kilrea section of the Derry Central and the former GNR ( by then freight only ) branch from Dungannon to Cookstown.

Further south, a branch from Hitchin to Royston and on to Shepreth was opened in March 1850 and worked by the GNR.

To consolidate this, in the 1880 session the GNR introduced a bill for a branch from Bulwell to Newstead, and this opened for coal traffic in July 1881 and for passengers on 2 October 1882.

Meanwhile in Lincolnshire, the new Spalding to Lincoln direct line opened from Spalding via Sleaford to Ruskington on 6 March 1882 and on the Lincoln on 1 August, on which date the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway came into being comprising in addition to the new Spalding-Lincoln line, the former GNR March to Spalding and Lincoln to Doncaster lines and the former GER Huntingdon to March line plus the Ramsey branch from Somersham.

Cavan once had two separate railway stations, linking the Great Northern Railway ( GNR ) and Midland Great Western Railway, then an end junction of the Belfast-Cavan route linking Clones with a branch line to Crossdoney and Killeshandra.

A branch of the Cavan-Leitrim Railway was also indirectly linked to Cavan town via Belturbet ( the C & L terminus ) and Ballyhaise on the GNR line.

However, when the GNR opened a branch from Finchley Central to High Barnet in April 1872 traffic on that section was greater, and the second track was never laid from Finchley Central to Edgware.

A branch line from this station was constructed by the GNR to High Barnet and opened on 1 April 1872.

Before the 1923 Grouping the first section of the line ( Leeds-Bradford ) was owned by the Great Northern Railway ( GNR ); and the entire remainder by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( L & YR ), apart from the final section of the branch leading into Huddersfield, which was owned by the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ).

However, in 1876, the GNR built Eastwood and Langley Mill on its branch from the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension at Awsworth Junction.

The Government of Northern Ireland made the GNR close nearly all of its cross-border lines, including the Bundoran branch, on 1 October 1957.

In 1958 the Ulster Transport Authority took over the remaining GNR lines on the Northern Ireland side of the border.

In 1958 the two states partitioned the GNR between the Ulster Transport Authority and CIÉ.

In 1875, the D & D and the D & BJct merged to form the Northern Railway of Ireland and thirteen months later the Great Northern Railway ( Ireland ) ( GNR ( I )) was formed when the Ulster Railway and the INWR joined this concern.

In accordance with The Benson Report submitted to the Northern Ireland Government in 1963, the UTA closed the former GNR line through Strabane to Derry in 1965.

It is on the Caldervale Line between Leeds and Bradford Interchange and was built to replace Pudsey's two original stations — Pudsey Lowtown and Pudsey Greenside — which were both closed in 1964 by the Beeching Axe along with the GNR Pudsey Loop serving them.

This section of the Great Northern Railway, also known as the Friargate Line, ( for further history about this now closed railway see GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension ), was built as a rival to the already established Midland Railway which at the time had a monopoly over Derby, Nottingham and the surrounding areas.

The GNR closed Clones station to passenger traffic on 14 October 1957.

The GNR ( I ) line from Navan to Oldcastle and the MGWR line from Clonsilla to Navan closed in 1963, leaving the lines from Drogheda to Navan and Navan to Kingscourt in place.

The Government of Northern Ireland closed much of the GNR network on its side of the border in 1957, including the E & BR as far as the border.

The Government of Northern Ireland closed much of the GNR network on its side of the border in 1957, including the E & BR as far as the border.

* to Bradford Interchange was on the Great Northern Railway ( GNR ) line ; some stations are closed:

The village shared the Nocton and Dunston railway station ( GNR / GER Joint ) until it was closed in 1955.

Some GER trains were working through to the GNR Station by 1863. and the Crescent station closed on 1 August 1866 when Midland Railway trains began using the GNR station instead.

In 1959 the line to Wisbech and to Sutton Bridge closed in 1959 along with most of the rest of the M & GNR and Local services on the GNR main line ended with a number of minor stations including Yaxley and Farcet and Tallington being closed.

On 1 July 1859, the S & LJR ( now the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway ) began using the GNR station via a short connecting curve, and closed its original station.

Chronically understrength, underequipped and plagued by desertions, GNR was later joined ( but not taken over ) by the Black Brigades which should have represented a new militant incarnation of the Fascist party.

The station has changed ownership a number of times: firstly the Great Northern Railway ( GNR ) ( 1852-1923 ), then the London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) ( 1923-1948 ), then following nationalisation British Railways ( 1948-1996 ), then upon privatisation Railtrack, then Network Rail.

In 1906 the GNR and Northern Counties Committee jointly took over the Donegal Railway, making it the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee.

This changed trade patterns to the railways ' detriment and placed border posts on the Joint Committee's FV and S & L lines and on the GNR line to Derry.

Over the next few years customs agreements between the two states enabled GNR trains between Strabane and Derry to pass through the Free State without inspection unless they were scheduled to serve local stations on the west bank of the Foyle, and for goods on all railways to be carried between different parts of the Free State to pass through Northern Ireland under customs bond.

The Nottingham Line ( LNER ) arrived first in 1850, then the London line ( GNR )-the Towns Line from Peterborough to Retford-arrived in 1852.

Rather than compete on the passenger front, he first set out to concentrate on the coal trade, for in this he had an advantage over both the GNR and the M & SLR.

The new line ran from Wigston toward Market Harborough, through Desborough, Kettering, Wellingborough and Bedford, then on the Bedford to Hitchin Line joining the GNR at Hitchin to run into King's Cross.

It insisted that they should alight at Hitchin, buying tickets in the short time available, to catch a GNR train to finish their journey.

Great Northern Railway GNR Stirling 4-2-2 | Stirling " Single " 4-2-2 express locomotive at Peterborough railway station | Peterborough North railway station.

The Great Northern Railway ( GNR ) was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846.

The GNR suffered a setback in 1848 when this deviation was rejected, but arrangements were soon made to use the MS & LR's authorized line from Sykes Junction ( on the loop line north of Lincoln ) to Retford and then via their own main line, and contracts for both of these lines were quickly let.

The first section of line was opened on 1 March 1848 and was the Louth to Grimsby section of the East Lincolnshire Railway, which although nominally independent, was leased to the GNR from the start.

The first section of GNR proper to be opened was the 3 miles from Doncaster to Askern Junction, where an end on connection was made with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway line from Knottingley.

The East Lincolnshire line opened from Louth to Boston on 1 October 1848, and on the 17 October, the loop line opened between Werrington Junction and Lincoln, with GNR trains using the Midland line from Werrington Junction to Peterborough.

The GNR and MS & LR lines allowing through running from Lincoln to Doncaster via Retford opened on 4 September 1849.

On 30 June 1847, the GNR obtained running powers over the LYR from Askern to Wakefield via Knottingley, and also from Knottingley to Methley on the Midland, and on 16 October the Midland agreed to allow the GNR to run from Methley to Leeds.

On 23 February 1849, the York and North Midland Railway agreed in principle to give the GNR running powers from Burton Salmon to York, and also over a new line to be built from Knottingley to Burton Salmon.

This new line was opened in June 1850, at which time the agreement was formalised and in return the GNR agreed not to proceed with its own main line from Askern to York via Selby.

By running powers over this line and a section of the LYR, the GNR obtained access to Bradford and Halifax.