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Part four – A locomotive odyssey through South East NI
BELFAST - NEWRYThe uniquely Irish method of building a railway –
we’ll build a couple of miles, you build a couple of miles towards us and we’ll get a third party to fill in the gap - applied to the route between
Belfast and the Northern Ireland-Republic of Ireland border city of
Newry, as it did with all of the lines in the North.
Today, of course, it is an international line since it extends beyond
Newry to
Dundalk,
Drogheda and into
Dublin, served by the regular
Enterprise Express, which stops at
Portadown and Newry in the North and Dundalk and Drogheda in the Republic, running every two hours.
The Ulster Railway laid the way in
l839 with a Belfast to Lisburn service, followed by an extention to Portadown in
l842...