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Bibliography of Irish rail transport

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ4903355 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a bibliography for the history of rail transport in Ireland.

Company histories

35 Years of NIR 1967 to 2002 - Allen, Jonathon M - 2003, ISBN 1-904242-00-6

A History of Northern Ireland Railways - Robb, William - 1982

Ballymena Lines, The - Patterson, Edward M. - 1968, ISBN 0-7153-4183-9

Patterson, Edward Mervyn (1982) [1958]. Belfast and County Down Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-8306-X. OCLC 16552845.

Coakham, Desmond (2010). The Belfast & County Down Railway. Newtownards: Colourpoint Books. ISBN 9781906578732. OCLC 709406911.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bibliography of Irish rail transport” as open-knowledge reference entry. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 2002, 2003, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bibliography, Irish and rail can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as open-knowledge reference entry. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4903355. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967, 2002, 2003 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bibliography of Irish rail transport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.