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The 26 miles long Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway (DNGR, DN&GR) was an Irish railway company. Originally conceived in the 1860s
1860s

Events and trends...
 (as the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway} to provide a link between the towns in its title and the London and North Western Railway
London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main L...
 port at Greenore
Greenore

Greenore is a small town and deep water port on Carlingford Lough in County Louth, Republic of Ireland. The population of Greenore and the surrounding rural area was 898 in the 2002 Irish census....
, from where a ferry service operated to Holyhead
Holyhead

Holyhead is the List of Anglesey towns by population in the county of Anglesey in the north west of Wales.Although it is the largest town in the county, with a population of 11,237 , it is neither the county town nor actually on the island of Anglesey....
. The railway was opened from Greenore to Dundalk
Dundalk

Dundalk is the county town of County Louth in Republic of Ireland, situated close to the border with Northern Ireland. It takes its name from , Dalga's Fortification home closely associated with the famous mythical warrior C?chulainn, and was granted its charter in 1189....
 in 1873 and extended to Newry
Newry

Newry is the fourth-largest City status in the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland and eighth on the island of Ireland. The River Clanrye, which runs through the city, forms the historic border between County Armagh and County Down: Newry was included entirely in the latter by the Local Government Act 1898....
 three years later. The LNWR eventually became the owning company and the provider of its locomotives and stock, the locomotives coming from its Crewe Works
Crewe Works

Crewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway. It is located in the town of Crewe, in the county of Cheshire....
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The 26 miles long Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway (DNGR, DN&GR) was an Irish railway company. Originally conceived in the 1860s
1860s

Events and trends...
 (as the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway} to provide a link between the towns in its title and the London and North Western Railway
London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main L...
 port at Greenore
Greenore

Greenore is a small town and deep water port on Carlingford Lough in County Louth, Republic of Ireland. The population of Greenore and the surrounding rural area was 898 in the 2002 Irish census....
, from where a ferry service operated to Holyhead
Holyhead

Holyhead is the List of Anglesey towns by population in the county of Anglesey in the north west of Wales.Although it is the largest town in the county, with a population of 11,237 , it is neither the county town nor actually on the island of Anglesey....
. The railway was opened from Greenore to Dundalk
Dundalk

Dundalk is the county town of County Louth in Republic of Ireland, situated close to the border with Northern Ireland. It takes its name from , Dalga's Fortification home closely associated with the famous mythical warrior C?chulainn, and was granted its charter in 1189....
 in 1873 and extended to Newry
Newry

Newry is the fourth-largest City status in the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland and eighth on the island of Ireland. The River Clanrye, which runs through the city, forms the historic border between County Armagh and County Down: Newry was included entirely in the latter by the Local Government Act 1898....
 three years later. The LNWR eventually became the owning company and the provider of its locomotives and stock, the locomotives coming from its Crewe Works
Crewe Works

Crewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway. It is located in the town of Crewe, in the county of Cheshire....
. The railway passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a United Kingdom railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required the grouping of over 300 separate railway companies into just four....
 in 1923 but an agreement was reached in 1933 for the line to be worked by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
Great Northern Railway (Ireland)

The Great Northern Railway was an Ireland railway company formed in 1876 by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway , Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway....
. The line closed on 31 December 1951 but was not finally wound up until 1957 by act of consent.