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Belfast & Northern Counties Railway Co
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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