Foyle Valley Railway

Coordinates: 54°59′31″N 7°19′18″W / 54.99197°N 7.321529°W / 54.99197; -7.321529

County Donegal Railways Joint Committee locomotive on the museum tracks

The Foyle Valley Railway is a railway museum in Derry, Northern Ireland.^[1] The exhibition is a recreated railway station platform and within the displays visitors can find out about the various railway companies which once operated out of the city.^[2] The current museum opened in 1989 and initially a former County Donegal diesel railcar ran along a three-mile stretch of track along the riverbank.^[3]

Rolling Stock

Railway Vehicles At The Foyle Valley Railway
Number	Type	Build Date	Original Operator	Notes
4	2-6-4T Steam Locomotive	1907	CDRJC	Named Meenglas. Stored outside.
6	2-6-4T Steam Locomotive	1907	CDRJC	Named Columbkille.
2	4wDM Diesel Shunter	1956	Motor Rail
12	Diesel Railcar	1934	CDRJC	Built by the GNR at Dundalk
30	Third Class Carriage	1901	CDRJC
14	Composite Carriage	1893	CDRJC
18	Composite Carriage	1885	LLSR
?	Hand-Worked Crane	?	LLSR
19	Goods Van	1881	CDRJC

Original use

The current railway structures were the Londonderry Foyle Road railway station terminus of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) route into the city on the west bank of the river Foyle from Strabane and Omagh.

References

Museums and galleries in Northern Ireland

National museums

Armagh County Museum Ulster American Folk Park Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Ulster Museum W5

Northern Ireland Environment Agency

Ballycopeland Windmill Bellaghy Bawn Carrickfergus Castle Castle Archdale Country Park Derry City Walls Devenish Monastic Site Dundrum Castle Dunluce Castle Greencastle Grey Abbey Harry Avery's and Newtownstewart Castle Hillsborough Courthouse Inch Abbey Jordan's Castle Monuments and Buildings Record Navan Fort Nendrum Monastic Site Tullaghoge Tully Castle

National Trust

Ardress House The Argory Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge Castle Coole Castle Ward Crom Estate Crown Liquor Saloon Derrymore House Downhill Estate (Mussenden Temple) Florence Court Giant's Causeway Gray's Printing Press Hezlett House Mount Stewart Murlough Nature Reserve Patterson's Spade Mill Rowallane Garden Springhill House Wellbrook Beetling Mill

Other museums and galleries

Belfast Exposed Down County Museum Downpatrick and County Down Railway Irish Republican History Museum Northern Ireland War Memorial Ormeau Baths Gallery Railway Preservation Society of Ireland Saint Patrick Visitor Centre Somme Heritage Centre

Heritage railways in Northern Ireland

Downpatrick and County Down Railway Foyle Valley Railway Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway Railway Preservation Society of Ireland Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

Heritage railways: England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland Isle of Man Channel Islands

Railway lines in Northern Ireland

InterCity lines	Belfast–Dublin Line

Main lines	Belfast–Derry Line

Belfast Commuter Lines	Belfast–Bangor Line Belfast–Larne Line Belfast–Newry Line

Other Lines	Coleraine–Portrush Line Lisburn–Antrim Line (closed)

Heritage Lines	Downpatrick and County Down Railway

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