Bundoran railway station served

Bundoran Bundoran () is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. The town is located near the N15 road near Ballyshannon, and is the most southerly town in Donegal. The town is a tourist seaside resort, and tourism has been at the heart of the local economy s ...

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in the

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. The

Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway The Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway (E&BR) was an Irish gauge railway company in north-west Ireland. It linked Bundoran and Ballyshannon on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal, Donegal with the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (L&ER) at ...

opened the station on 13 June 1866. Services were provided by the

Irish North Western Railway Irish North Western Railway (INW) was an Irish gauge () railway company in Ireland. Development The company was founded as the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway (D&ER) and opened the first section of its line, from to , in 1849. In Dundalk th ...

. It was taken over by the

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in 1876. During The Emergency of 1939–45 the GNR introduced the ''Bundoran Express'' that linked Dublin and Bundoran via and

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. It also carried pilgrims to and from

Pettigo Pettigo, also spelt Pettigoe ( ; ), is a small village and townland on the border of County Donegal, Republic of Ireland and County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is bisected by the Termon River which is part of the border between the Republ ...

, which was the nearest station for Lough Derg. There were also through trains between Bundoran and Belfast. The

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in 1922 turned the boundary with

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into an international frontier. Henceforth Bundoran's only railway link with the rest of the

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was via

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, and as such was subject to delays for

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inspections. The

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closed much of the GNR network on its side of the border in 1957, including the E&BR as far as the border.Hajducki, ''op. cit.'', map 39 This gave the Republic no practical alternative but to allow the closure of the line between the border and Bundoran. It officially closed on 1 October 1957. The Great Northern Hotel, Bundoran - geograph

The Great Northern Hotel, Bundoran - geograph

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1866 establishments in Ireland 1957 disestablishments in Ireland

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Disused railway stations in County Donegal Railway stations closed in 1957 Railway stations opened in 1866 {{Ireland-railstation-stub