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| C.V.R. the Cogher Valley Railway ran for 35 miles fron Tynan, Co. Armagh,
to Maguire's Bridge, Co Fermanagh.which is just over the county border
with Tyrone. The CVR travelled from Tynan, through the following Co. Tyrone
towns, Caledon, Crilly, Aughnacloy, Ballygawley, Augher, Clogher, Fivemiletown.,
before ending up in McGuire's Bridge. It was a narrow guage railway, which
closed in the mid 1940s, it opened about 1880(C) It was heavily subsidised
by the British Government, as were all the narrow guage railways in Ireland. The British .Governemnt's very first regional developement scheme in any part of the British Isles was known as the Congested Districts Board and set up in the nine counties of the west of Ireland from Kerry to Donegal, to create work for the unemployed after the potato famine. A futher developement to this programme was the subsidising of narrow guage railways to increase tourism and trade in the whole of Ireland. This railway system was very succesful, no one was any more than 12/15 miles from a railway station. There were so many railways in Ireland, you could travel by rail from Co Kerry to Ballycastle, Co. Antrim by rail. |
Last updated: 24 January, 2002
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