Vernersbridge railway station

The Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (PD&O) opened the station in 1858 as Verner's, named after local landowner William Verner.^[2] Mr Verner did not want a standard PD&O station building as at Annaghmore and Trew and Moy, so at his request Verner's station was built to match his home at Churchill.^[2] The station had no signal box and its signals were worked by a ground frame.^[2]

The newly formed Great Northern Railway (GNR) absorbed the PD&O in 1876 and doubled the track through Vernersbridge in 1899–1902.^[4] Vernersbridge was served by GNR passenger trains between Belfast Great Victoria Street and Londonderry Foyle Road via Portadown.

The GNR was nationalised in 1953 as the GNR Board, which closed Vernersbridge station in 1954.^[2] The Ulster Transport Authority took over the GNR's remaining lines in Northern Ireland in 1958^[5] and closed the PD&O line on 15 February 1965.^[3]

The former station and goods shed survive: the station as a private house and the goods shed as its outbuilding.

• Baker, Michael H.C. (1972). Irish Railways since 1916. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0282-7.
• FitzGerald, J.D. (1995). The Derry Road. Colourpoint Transport. Vol. 2. Gortrush: Colourpoint Press. ISBN 1-898392-09-9.
• Hajducki, S. Maxwell (1974). A Railway Atlas of Ireland. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5167-2.

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