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Transport Acts in 1967 split the UTA into road and rail operations, the bus operations being taken over by a new company called Ulsterbus in the same year. The rail operations temporarily became Ulster Transport Railways (UTR) before being taken over by Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) in 1968. Portadown with former GNR (potential) line to Armagh.
By late 1966 the Ulster Transport Authority's days were numbered, and a new Holding Company was established to replace it. Two groups of routes in the Lurgan and Portrush areas were disposed of to two new independent operators, Sureline Coaches Ltd. and Coastal Bus Services Ltd., with Ulsterbus taking responsibility for all other ex UTA bus services in 1967.
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London Midland & Scottish and the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board, together with the portion of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) which lay in Northern Ireland, into a single organisation - the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA). The Transport Act (N.I.) 1948 gave force to these proposals, except those concerning the GNR(I),
Eventually, on 15th January 1950, the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) closed the main line to Newcastle. The Belfast suburban stations also closed on that day; Frazer Street (halt), Bloomfield (station), Neill’s Hill (halt) and Knock (station). Within a couple of years, the track lifting gangs were working along the main line.
The Ulster Transport Authority was set up in 1948 to take over the previously seperate transport undertakings run by the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board, the Belfast and County Down Railway and the Northern Counties Committee of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (soon to become part of British Railways).
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The Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) ran rail and bus transport in Northern Ireland from 1948 until 1966. The UTA was formed by the Transport Act 1948, which merged the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board (NIRTB) and the Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR). Added to this in 1949 was the Northern Counties Committee (NCC), owned by the British Transport Commission's Railway Executive since ...
