Vernersbridge railway station was a railway station in

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. The station was about south of Clonmore and about east of a substantial viaduct by which the railway crossed the River Blackwater.

History

The Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (PD&O) opened the station in 1858 as Verner's, named after local landowner William Verner. Mr Verner did not want a standard PD&O station building as at and , so at his request Verner's station was built to match his home at Churchill. The station had no

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and its signals were worked by a

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. The newly formed

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(GNR) absorbed the PD&O in 1876 and doubled the track through Vernersbridge in 1899–1902. Vernersbridge was served by GNR passenger trains between and via . The GNR was nationalised in 1953 as the GNR Board, which closed Vernersbridge station in 1954. The

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took over the GNR's remaining lines in Northern Ireland in 1958 and closed the PD&O line on 15 February 1965. The former station and goods shed survive: the station as a private house and the goods shed as its outbuilding.

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* * * Disused railway stations in County Armagh Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1858 Railway stations in Northern Ireland closed in 1954 Great Northern Railway (Ireland) {{NorthernIreland-railstation-stub