Glossary - Irish Narrow Gauge

Irish Narrow Gauge - Glossary

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Belfast & Northern Counties Railway Co

1860.05: company formed from former Belfast and Ballymena Railway
1884: absorbed BC&RBR
1903: purchased by Midland Railway, became "Midland Railway (Northern Counties Committee)"

chain

Imperial unit of linear measure: 1/10 of a furlong, 22 yards. (The length of a cricket pitch.)

CIÉ

see: Córas Iompair Éireann

Córas Iompair Éireann

The Irish Transportation Board, formed 1 January 1945 from the DUTC and the Great Southern Railways.
website: http://www.cie.ie

D&BST

see: Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway

Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway

Dublin United Transport Company

Operated buses and trams in Dublin until absorbed by CIÉ 1 January 1945.

DUTC

see: Dublin United Transport Company

foot

Imperial unit of linear measure: 1/3 of a yard, 12 inches.

furlong

Imperial unit of linear measure: 1/8 of a mile, 10 chains, 220 yards. (A "furrow-long".)

Great Southern Railways

Created in 1924 from all railways wholly contained in the Irish Free State.

Great Southern and Western Railway

1846: first trains run; became GSR in 1924

GSR

see: Great Southern Railways

GSWR

see: Great Southern and Western Railway

imperial measure

A family of measurement units:
linear: mile, furlong, chain, yard, foot, inch.

inch

Imperial unit of linear measure: 1/12 of a foot. (exactly 25.4mm)

Ottley No.

George Ottley compiled the first comprehensive Bibliography of British Railway History. Subsequently there have been two supplements. The Ottley No. is the sequence number in those publications.

Ulster Transport Authority

in 1949, NCC incorporated into UTA

yard

Imperial unit of linear measure: 3 feet.

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