Finn Valley Railway
| Industry | railway |
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| Fate | taken over |
| Successor | Donegal Railway Company |
| Founded | 1860 |
| Defunct | 1892 |
| Headquarters | Stranorlar, Ireland |
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Area served
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The Finn Valley Railway (FVR) was an Irish gauge (5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)) railway in Ireland.
The Finn Valley Railway Company was incorporated on 15 May 1860 with capital of £60,000 (equivalent to £5,080,000 in 2015).
The chairman of the directors was James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford of Meen Glas, Stranorlar, and the deputy-chairman was James Thompson Macky of the Bank of Ireland in Londonderry.
The other directors were:
The other offices of the company were:
They built a railway line to Irish gauge (5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)) between Stranorlar and Strabane which opened on 1 October 1863.
The directors entered into a contract with the Irish North Western Railway to work the line for a period of 10 years. This company became amalgamated with the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in 1876.
In 1892 it merged with the West Donegal Railway into a new company, the Donegal Railway Company. The line from Stranorlar to Strabane was reconstructed to (3 ft (914 mm)) gauge shortly afterwards.
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