Donegal Railway Company

The Donegal Railway Company was a gauge railway in Ireland.

History

The company was formed via the on 27 June 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 Finn Valley Railway from Strabane to Stranorlar from to gauge, which it completed on 16 July 1894.
Further new lines were built with a government grant of £300,000,:

Stranorlar and Glenties, opened 1895
Donegal Town to Killybegs, opened 1893

Other extensions followed later:

Strabane to Derry, opened 1901
Donegal Town to Ballyshannon, was the last section to be completed and opened 2 September 1905

In 1906 it was obtained by the joint interest of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland and the Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee which set up a new company, the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee, under the Great Northern (Ireland) and Midland Railways Act 1906.