Londonderry: across River Foyle from Craigavon Bridge, 1960
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Londonderry: across River Foyle from Craigavon Bridge, 1960
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 10 Aug 1960
View over the Foyle Estuary to Abercorn Quay and the western part of Derry. Terminal buildings of the ex-Great Northern (Ireland) lines from Dublin and Belfast via Omagh, which closed 15/2/65, are seen by the Quay. Until about the mid-fifties there was also a rail connection northward with the former Londonderry & Loch Swilly system that termiated there its lines from Burtonpoint, Buncrana and Cardonagh. Until 1/1/55 trains of the County Donegal Joint Railway had also come in from the southern direction from Strabane. Off the view to the left on that side nowadays is Foyle Valley Railway Museum.
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54.990497
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