Stranorlar railway station served the village of

Stranorlar Stranorlar () is a town, townland and civil parish in the Finn Valley of County Donegal, in Ireland. Stranorlar and Ballybofey (located on the other side of the River Finn) form ''the Twin Towns''. Transport The town is located at the junctio ...

County Donegal County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconne ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. The station opened on 3 September 1863 on the

Finn Valley Railway The Finn Valley Railway (FVR) was a gauge railway in Ireland. History Incorporation The Finn Valley Railway Company was incorporated on 15 May 1860 with capital of £60,000 (). Personnel The Chairman of the directors was The 4th Viscount Lif ...

line from

Strabane Strabane ( ; ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Strabane had a population of 13,172 at the 2011 Census. It lies on the east bank of the River Foyle. It is roughly midway from Omagh, Derry and Letterkenny. The River Foyle marks ...

. One of the first acts of the new

Donegal Railway Company The Donegal Railway Company (DR) was a gauge railway in Ireland. History The company was formed in 1892 by a merger of the Finn Valley Railway and the West Donegal Railway. One of the first acts of the new company was to convert the former F ...

was to convert the former

from Strabane to Stranorlar from to gauge, which it completed on 16 July 1894.The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland, William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Dept. of the Environment, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984 The later railway extensions to

Donegal Donegal may refer to: County Donegal, Ireland * County Donegal, a county in the Republic of Ireland, part of the province of Ulster * Donegal (town), a town in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland * Donegal Bay, an inlet in the northwest of Ireland b ...

by the

West Donegal Railway The West Donegal Railway (WDR) was a narrow gauge railway in Ireland. History The Finn Valley Railway had reached Stranorlar in 1863. The West Donegal Railway Company was incorporated by an act of July 1879 to extend the Finn Valley Railway l ...

and via

Fintown railway station Fintown Railway station served the village of Fintown in County Donegal, Ireland. The station opened on 3 June 1903 on the Donegal Railway Company line from Glenties to Stranorlar. It closed on 15 December 1947 when the County Donegal Railway ...

Glenties Glenties () is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. It is situated where two glens meet, north-west of the Bluestack Mountains, near the confluence of two rivers. Glenties is the largest centre of population in the parish of Iniskeel. Glenties has ...

by the

. Stranorlar became the headquarters of the successor company, the

County Donegal Railways Joint Committee The County Donegal Railways Joint Committee operated an extensive narrow gauge railway system serving County Donegal, Ireland, from 1906 until 1960. The committee was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1906, which authorised the joint pur ...

. It closed to passenger services on 31 December 1959. Goods trains continued to run between Stranorlar and Strabane until 6 February 1960

References

Disused railway stations in County Donegal Railway stations opened in 1863 Railway stations closed in 1960 {{Ireland-railstation-stub