Northern Ireland ; map of train and bus routes : issued by the Ulster Transport Authority, March 1954
A very pocket map showing details of the train and bus routes operated by the Ulster Transport Authority in March 1954. The UTA was formed in 1948 and combined the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board and the Belfast & County Down Railway. The following year they acquired the railway lines previously operated by the LMS Northern Counties Committee which had, for a year, effectively been part of British Railways following the nationalisation of the London Midland & Scottish Railway in 1948.
It is fair to say that the UTA was distinctly anti-railway and by 1950 a raft of closures was underway. By the mid-1950s the Authority was involved in the effective closure of lines within Northern Ireland operated by the still nominally independent cross-Border Great Northern Railway of Ireland. The GNR(I) was dissolved in 1958 with assets north of the border going to the UTA and those south to CIÉ, the Irish Government's nationalised transport operator. The UTA was itself dissolved in 1967/8 with bus operations becoming Ulsterbus and what was left of rail operations Northern Ireland Railways.
The map shows services geographically and there is a list of bus services, numbers and routes. It includes details as to coach services and hire and a list of the five UTA Hotels; the Slieve Donard in Newcastle, Co. Down., Northern Counties in Portrush, Co. Antrim, the Midland Hotel in Belfast. the City Hotel in Derry/Londonderry. and the Laharna Hotel in Larne, Co. Antrim.
Northern Ireland ; map of train and bus routes : issued by the Ulster Transport Authority, March 1954
A very pocket map showing details of the train and bus routes operated by the Ulster Transport Authority in March 1954. The UTA was formed in 1948 and combined the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board and the Belfast & County Down Railway. The following year they acquired the railway lines previously operated by the LMS Northern Counties Committee which had, for a year, effectively been part of British Railways following the nationalisation of the London Midland & Scottish Railway in 1948.
It is fair to say that the UTA was distinctly anti-railway and by 1950 a raft of closures was underway. By the mid-1950s the Authority was involved in the effective closure of lines within Northern Ireland operated by the still nominally independent cross-Border Great Northern Railway of Ireland. The GNR(I) was dissolved in 1958 with assets north of the border going to the UTA and those south to CIÉ, the Irish Government's nationalised transport operator. The UTA was itself dissolved in 1967/8 with bus operations becoming Ulsterbus and what was left of rail operations Northern Ireland Railways.
The map shows services geographically and there is a list of bus services, numbers and routes. It includes details as to coach services and hire and a list of the five UTA Hotels; the Slieve Donard in Newcastle, Co. Down., Northern Counties in Portrush, Co. Antrim, the Midland Hotel in Belfast. the City Hotel in Derry/Londonderry. and the Laharna Hotel in Larne, Co. Antrim.