Manorhamilton

Manorhamilton, Co.Leitrim, is located roughly half way between Sligo and Enniskillen, and this is where the Sligo Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway built its main workshops on their line which ran between these two important towns. Opened in December 1880, the SLNCR line was forced to close in November 1957, following the Great Northern line closures west of Enniskillen. The track was lifted shortly afterwards in 1959. The single storey stone built station building at Manorhamilton remains intact, complete with its adjacent corrugated iron custom buildings, originally used for inspecting cross border traffic. The site of the up & down platforms is now the garden of the former station. At the east end of the station only the locomotive shed and stone storage building remains, the rest of the site is occupied by a cattle market. The site of the level crossing at the west end of the station on the N16 road has been widened significantly, but the trackbed of the line remains as a farm track at either end of the station area.
The stone built single storey station building at Manorhamilton, as viewed from the forecourt. The station was opened in December 1880. Manorhamilton Station, looking west towards Sligo. The station building is on the right, and has been extended across the former platform as seen here from the trackbed. Another view of the Sligo Leitrim & Northern Counties station building at Manorhamilton. It is a larger example of the type built on the line. This was the site of the station level crossing at Manorhamilton, located at the east end of the station on main N16 road between Sligo and Enniskillen.
For those aware of Neil Sprink's pictorial book on the Sligo Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway, the cover depicts loco Lough Melvin on a Sligo bound goods train at this spot on the east side of Manorhamilton level crossing. The former line along here is now a farm track. The corrugated iron customs shelter at Manhorhamilton Station, which has been in situ here since at least the 1930s . This was the large SLNCR locomotive shed at Manorhamilton, located at the west end of the station. Much of the yard and former railway workshops is now a cattle market. This is the west end of Manorhamilton Station. The loco shed is the taller of the three buildings on the left. To the right in distance can be seen a railway storage shed.
Another view of the former railway yard at Manorhamilton Station. Several buildings have been built across the former trackbed. A view looking towards Sligo from the western extremity of Manorhamilton Station. The former line along here is also now a farm track. South of Manorhamilton adjacent to the R290 road is this former overbridge. The railway passed beneath the structure, but since closure in 1957 the road was re-aligned across the trackbed.