Liste irischer Eisenbahngesellschaften

Diese Liste enthält e​ine Übersicht über bestehende u​nd nicht m​ehr bestehende Eisenbahngesellschaften a​uf Irland.

Das Eisenbahnnetz a​uf Irland w​ird derzeit hauptsächlich v​on zwei Bahngesellschaften betrieben. In Nordirland i​st dies d​ie Northern Ireland Railways u​nd in d​er Republik Irland d​ie Iarnród Éireann.

Iarnród Éireann

• Die Holdinggesellschaft Córas Iompair Éireann (operative Gesellschaft von 1945–1987) mit dem Eisenbahnunternehmen Iarnród Éireann (operative Gesellschaft seit 1987)
  • Dublin United Transport Company (0000–1945) (1891–0000 Dublin United Tramways)
    • Dublin Tramways Company (0000–1891)
    • North Dublin Street Tramways Company (0000–1891)
    • Dublin Central Tramways Company (0000–1891)
    • Dublin Southern Tramways (1896)
    • Dublin Southern Districts Tramways
    • Blackrock and Kingstown Tramway
  • Great Southern Railways (1925–1945)
    • Great Southern Railway (1924–1925)
      • Great Southern and Western Railway (1844–1924)
        • Irish South Eastern Railway (1848–0000)
        • Waterford and Central Ireland Railway (1877–1900)
          • Central Ireland Railway (0000–1877)
          • Waterford and Kilkenny Railway (0000–1877)
        • Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway (0000–1901)
      • Midland Great Western Railway (1845–1924)
      • Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (1888–1924) (1849–1888: Cork and Bandon Railway)
        • Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway (1863–1879)
        • Ilen Valley Railway (1877–1879)
        • West Cork Railway (1866–1879)
    • Dublin and South Eastern Railway (1906–1925) (1846–1860: Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway, 1860–1906: Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway)
      • Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1834–1854)
      • City of Dublin Junction Railway
      • New Ross and Waterford Extension Railway
    • Arigna Colliery Extension Railway (0000–1925)
    • Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway (0000–1925)
    • Athy and Wolfhill Colliery Railway (0000–1925)
    • Ballinacarthy and Timoleague Junction Light Railway (0000–1925)
    • Ballinrobe and Claremorris Light Railway (0000–1925)
    • Baltimore Extension Railway (1893–1925)
    • Bantry Extension Railway (1881–1925)
    • Castlecomer Railway ( –1925)
    • Cavan and Leitrim Railway (1883–1925)
    • Clonakilty Extension Railway (1886–1925)
    • Cork and Macroom Direct Railway (0000–1925)
    • Cork and Muskerry Light Railway (1883–1925)
    • Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway (1846–1925)
    • Cork City Railway (0000–1925)
    • Donoughmore Extension Light Railway (0000–1925)
    • Loughrea and Attymon Light Railway (0000–1925)
    • Schull and Skibbereen Tramway and Light Railway (1892–1925) (1883–1892: West Carberry Tramways and Light Railways)
    • South Clare Railways (1884–1925)
    • Southern of Ireland Railway (0000–1925)
    • Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Extension Light Railway (0000–1925)
    • Tralee and Dingle Light Railway (1888–1925)
    • Tralee and Fenit Railway (1887–1925)
    • Waterford and Tramore Railway (1853–1925)
    • West Clare Railway (1883–1925)
  • Hill of Howth Tramway (1901–1959)

Northern Ireland Railways

• Northern Ireland Railways (seit 1968) (1966–1968: Ulster Transport Railways)
  • Ulster Transport Authority (1948–1966)
    • Belfast and County Down Railway (1846–1948)
      • Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway (1865–1884)
      • Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway (1869–1884)
    • Northern Counties Committee der Midland Railway, ab 1925 der London, Midland and Scottish Railway (1903 –1949)
      • Ballycastle Railway (1875–1924)
      • Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (1860–1903) (1848–1860: Belfast and Ballymena Railway)
        • Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway (1855–1861)
        • Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway (1872–1884)
        • Ballymena and Larne Railway (1874–1889)
        • Carrickfergus and Larne Railway (1862–1890)
        • Draperstown Railway (1883–1895)
        • Derry Central Railway (1880–1901)
        • Londonderry and Coleraine Railway (1852–1871)
        • Portstewart Tramway (1882–1897)
      • Limavady and Dungiven Railway (1883–1907)

Great Northern Railway

• Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (1876–1958)
  • Banbridge, Lisburn and Belfast Railway (1863–)
  • Dublin and Antrim Junction Railway (1871–1879)
  • Irish North Western Railway (1862–1876) (1849–1862: Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway)
  • Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (1845–1883)
  • Northern Railway of Ireland (1875–1876)
    • Dublin and Drogheda Railway (1836–1875)
    • Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway (1845–1875)
  • Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (1855–1876) verpachtet an die Ulster Railway
  • Ulster Railway (1836–1876)
  • Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway (1866–1896) (Enniskillen, Bundoran and Sligo Railway)

Weitere Bahngesellschaften

• Bessbrook and Newry Tramway (1884–1948)
• Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Railway (1883–1933)
• Cavehill and Whitewell Tramway
• Clogher Valley Tramway (1884–1941)
• County Donegal Railways Joint Committee (gemeinsames Unternehmen vom MR und GNR) (1906–1959)
  • Donegal Railway (1892–1906)
    • Finn Valley Railway (1863–1892)
    • West Donegal Railway (1879–1892)
• Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway (1888–1832)
• Dublin and Lucan Tramway (1880–1925)
• Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway (1863–1957) im Besitz der London and North Western Railway
• Fishguard and Roslare Railway and Harbours
• Giant’s Chauseway, Portrush and Bush Valley Railway and Tramway (1880–1949)
• Listowel and Ballybunion Railway (1886–1924)
• Londonderry and Loch Swilly Railway (1853–1953)
  • Letterkenny and Burtonport Extension Railway
• Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway (1875–1957)
• Strabane and Letterkenny Railway (1909–1959) Betrieb durch das CDRJC
• Waterford, New Ross and Wexford Junction Railway (–1876) Gemeinsames Eigentum der Great Southern and Western Railway und der Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway

Museumseisenbahnen

• Tralee and Blennerville Railway – derzeit inaktiv
• Lartigue Monorail and Museum
• West Clare Railways Museum
• Waterford and Suir Valley Railway
• Irish Steam Preservation Society – Museumseisenbahn in Stradbally Hall
• Cavan and Leitrim Railway Museum
• Fintown Railway
• Downpatrick and County Down Railway
• Railway Preservation Society of Ireland – Museum und Zugbetrieb
• Giant’s Causeway and Bushmills Railway

Literatur

• Martin Bairstow: Railways in Ireland. Part 1. Martin Bairstow Publisher, ISBN 978-1-871944-31-0.
• Martin Bairstow: Railways in Ireland. Part 2. Martin Bairstow Publisher, ISBN 978-1-871944-33-4.
• Martin Bairstow: Railways in Ireland. Part 3. Martin Bairstow Publisher, ISBN 978-1-871944-36-5.
• Martin Bairstow: Railways in Ireland. Part 4. Martin Bairstow Publisher, ISBN 978-1-871944-40-2.
• Martin Bairstow: Railways in Ireland. Part 5. Martin Bairstow Publisher, ISBN 978-1-871944-42-6.
• Joe Begeley, Steve Flanders: Ireland’s Narrow Gauge Railways. Oakwood Press, ISBN 978-0-85361-710-5.
• Tom Ferris: Irish Railways. A new history. Gill & Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-7171-4648-2.