Vernersbridge railway station was a railway station in

County Armagh County Armagh (, named after its county town, Armagh) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and ha ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

. The station was about south of Clonmore and about east of a substantial viaduct by which the railway crossed the River Blackwater.

History

The

Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway The Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (PD&O) was an Irish gauge () railway in County Armagh and County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland (now Northern Ireland). Early development Building of the PD&O line started from Portadown in 1855 a ...

(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

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and its signals were worked by a

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. 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 The Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) ran rail and bus transport in Northern Ireland from 1948 until 1966. Formation and consolidation The UTA was formed by the Transport Act 1948, which merged the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board (NIRTB ...

took over the GNR's remaining lines in Northern Ireland in 1958 and closed the PD&O line on 15 February 1965. The former station and goods shed survive: the station as a private house and the goods shed as its outbuilding.

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* * * Disused railway stations in County Armagh Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1858 Railway stations in Northern Ireland closed in 1965 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) 1858 establishments in Ireland 1965 disestablishments in Northern Ireland {{NorthernIreland-railstation-stub