LONDONDERRY FOYLE ROADPHOTO GALLERY1959 to 1963[Source: Jim McBride & Paul Wright]
 Londonderry Foyle Road station on 19 August 1959. The arrival platform is to the left and the departure platform is to the right. A Belfast Great Victoria Street service formed of a BUT railcar is seen at the departure platform. The railcar was still in GNRI livery but a UTA crest had been added. It was one of only eight single ended BUT railcars.
Photo by Roger Joanes from his Flickr photostream  The 'Little Gaelic Singers' line up for a group photograph at Foyle Road in January 1959. They were en route to the USA and a Derry Journal photograper had turned out to capture the scene. To the right of the group at the departure platform is a BUT railcar which would have been operating on a Belfast Great Victoria Street service. Copyright photo from the Derry Journal  A view looking north-east along the Londonderry Foyle Road island platform in October 1959. Branching off to the right just before the trainshed is the connection to the Londonderry Port & Harbour Commission railway which ran along the quay and crossed the Craigavon Bridge. In the distance the LP&HC weighbridge can be seen. Pulling away from the station is a BUT railcar. Photo from the Jim McBride collection  Londonderry Foyle Road and City Goods stations seen from the Craigavon Bridge in 1960. The passenger station at Foyle Road is seen to the left and the goods station is to the right. Also seen in front of City goods is the 'Transit Shed' which burned down in 1961. Opened in 1877 'City Goods' had initially served the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway who had their Waterside terminus on the east side of the River Foyle. Photo by Ben Brooksbank  Standing at the arrival platform at Foyle Road in 1960 is ex-LMS NCC 2-6-0 'Mogul' class locomotive number 98 'King Edward VIII'. The engine was built in 1937 at York Road in Belfast. The engine was withdrawn in August 1964. Photo by John Richardson  UTA 0-6-0 x class locomotive number 35 (ex-GNRI 202) is seen in Foyle Road goods yard in 1961. The engine was built in 1921 and withdrawn in may 1965. Dominating the view is the Star shirt factory. Photo by P B whitehouse  Looking south-west along the island platform at Londonderry Foyle Road station on 21 July 1962. Standing at the arrival platform (right) is a recently arrived service from Belfast Great Victoria Street. The train is formed of a BUT railcar. To the left the connection to the LP&HC lines can be seen. The LP&HC lines officially closed at the end of August 1962. Photo from the Jim McBride collection  The south end of the Londonderry Foyle Road station platform seen looking south-west on 21 July 1962. The Craigavon Bridge, opened in 1933, straddles the end of the platform. Its predecessor the Carlisle Bridge (opened in 1863) had been located just beyond the end of the platform. Londonderry North signal cabin can be seen in the distance. Standing at the arrival platform (right) is a BUT railcar. The coach that is still in its GNRI livery of blue and cream had been converted from steam hauled stock. The large building seen to the right was the Tillies & Hendersons shirt factory. It famously featured in Karl Marx's book about capitalism 'Das Kapital'. Photo from the Jim McBride collection  Seen inside the train shed at the departure platform of Londonderry Foyle Road station on 8 August 1962 is UTA railcar 101. The railcar had entered service as railcar A of the GNRI in July 1932 and was renumbered, re-engined and repainted by the UTA in late 1961. In this view the railcar was on a short working to Strabane.Photo by E M Patterson  In September 1962 BUT railcar number 135 (ex GNRI 908) is seen at the arrival platform of Londonderry Foyle Road. Number 135 was the very last railcar that had been built for the GNRB in 1958. The tail lamp is absent so the train was probably about to move out of the passenger station and go into the sidings on the south side of the Craigavon Bridge. It would then have moved into the departure platform (right) to form a service to Belfast Great Victoria Street. The UTA started to apply half yellow fronts to its railcars from November 1960. In 1961 they added the black wasp stripes. Photo by J D FitzGerald curtesy of Colourpoint  On 3 April 1963 UTA 4-4-0 U class locomotive number 67 'Louth' (former GNRI number 202) prepares to leave Londonderry Foyle Road station on a one coach passenger service to Omagh. The engine had been built in 1948 by Bayer Peacock and was withdrawn in May 1965. Photo by Roger Joanes from his Flickr photostream  The main entrance to Londonderry Foyle Road station seen in 1963. This entrance building was built by the INWR in 1870. In the background a bus of the CIE can be seen. It is an ex-GNRI vehicle on a Sligo to Derry service. Copyright photo from Ernies Railway Archive  On 2 July 1963 4-4-0 ex-GNRI S class locomotive number 171 'Slieve Gullion' is seen departing from Londonderry Foyle Road station on the 12.55pm servive to Belfast Great Victoria Street. When the GNRB was broken up in 1958 this locomotive had passed into CIE ownership but was purchased by the UTA in April 1963 to serve the 'Derry Road'. Under CIE ownership it had retained its GNRI blue livery and its original number. This locomotive was later preserved by the RPSI. Photo by F D FitzGerald curtesy of Colourpoint  Londonderry Foyle Road station seen from Bridge Street on 15 July 1963. The UTA had made little attempt to rebrand the station when it took over from october 1958. Only the poster boards carried UTA lettering. On the main entrance Great Northern Railway still dominated. Photo from an Ulster Transport Authority negative  The former GNRI Londonderry Locomotive shed seen in November 1963. By this time the shed had lost its allocation of locomotives but as this photo dempnstrates it was still used for stabling. The engine is an ex-GNRI 0-6-0 SG class locomotive that had been built in 1920. The UTA gave it the number 35. It would later work an overnight goods service to Belfast Grosvenor Road Goods station. Copyright photo from Ernies Railway Archive 
In October 1963 UTA railcar 101 (former GNRI railcar A) was involved in a shunting accident at Foyle Road. It is seen in this view taken shortly after the accident in one of the goods sidings. Because of the damage the railcar was withdrawn in April 1964. To the left is an ex-GNRI 0-6-0 SG class locomotive, number 32 (GNRI number 13), engaged on shunting Guiness tanks. The engine was built in 1920 and withdrawn in May 1965.
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