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  • 13 - No Way to Run a Railroad

  • Edited by David Capper, Queen's University Belfast, Conor McCormick, Queen's University Belfast, Norma Dawson, Queen's University Belfast
  • Book:
    Law and Constitutional Change
    Published online:
    26 September 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 237-255
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    Partition brought with it severe challenges for the operation of railways in Ireland and in its aftermath the cross-border network declined. This chapter explores the challenges of running cross-border railways against a backdrop of the profound lack of cooperation between the administrations in Dublin and Belfast after partition. Even when both administrations grudgingly recognised that they had to cooperate to make even the Dublin/Belfast route viable, this effort towards partnership was stymied by the complicating factor of Belfast’s relations with London. The railways therefore provide a case study which highlights the challenges of sharing the Island of Ireland after partition, with consequences which run to the present.