The Giant's Causeway & Bushmills Railway operates a narrow gauge 3ft (900mm) line between Giant's Causeway and the old Bushmills distillery in Northern Ireland. The present operation commenced as a tourist attraction in 2002. Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) with track spaced at less than the standard gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1. ... Basalt columns Giants Causeway A plane of columns The Giants Boot The Giants Causeway is an area of 40,000 tightly packed basalt columns resulting from a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago. ... Bushmills is a town on the north coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ... Distillation is a means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points. ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ...

The line is two miles long and has a passing loop halfway, close to the River Bush bridge. The railway has two steam locomotives Shane(1949), Tyrone(1904) and a diesel engine Rory. There are eight passenger coaches. Great Western Railway No. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The original line, closed in 1949, ran from Portrush to Bushmills and then on to the Giant's Causeway. The first section was opened in 1883 by the Giant's Causeway, Portrush & Bush Valley Tramway, with the section from Bushmills onwards opening in 1887. The first section was an electrified tram line, with power supplied first by third rail, and later by an overhead trolley system. The operation was the first hydro-electric railway in the world. Portrush (Port Rois in Irish) is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ... Events January January 16 - The United States Civil service, is passed January 19 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service (Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas Edison. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ...

See also

• Rail transport in Ireland, History of rail transport in Ireland

For rail transport in Great Britain see rail transport in Great Britain Rail services in Ireland are provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland. ... The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain. ...

External links

• The Railway website (http://www.giantscausewayrailway.org/)

References

• Johnson, S. (1997). Johnson's Atlas & Gazetteer of the Railways of Ireland, Midland Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85780-044-3.