S.I. No. 179/1959 - County Donegal Railways (Killybegs-Strabane, Letterkenny Strabane) Termination of Railway Services Order, 1959.

WHEREAS the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee has made application to the Minister for Transport and Power for an order authorising the said Committee to terminate the service of trains run over the following sections of railway line operated by the said committee, namely, the sections of railway line comprising so much of the railway lines between Killybegs and Strabane and between Letter-kenny and Strabane as is situated in the county of Donegal:—

AND WHEREAS the said Minister is satisfied that the said Committee has lawful authority to carry on a road transport service affording to the public transport facilities constituting (for the purpose of the traffic carried by the railway services authorised by this Order to be terminated) an adequate substitute for those services, and that the said Committee has given sufficient public notice of the intention to establish such road transport services :—

NOW, I, ERSKINE H. CHILDERS, Minister for Transport and Power, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 9 of the Railways Act, 1933 (No. 9 of 1933), and the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 ( S.I. No. 125 of 1959 ), hereby order as follows :

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the County Donegal Railways (Killybegs—Strabane, Letterkenny—Strabane) Termination of Railway Services Order, 1959.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1960.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The County Donegal Railways Joint Committee is hereby authorised, notwithstanding any statutory, contractual or other obligation to the contrary, to terminate the service of trains run at the date of the Committee's application for this Order over the following sections of railway line operated by the said Committee, namely the sections of railway line comprising so much of the railway lines between Killybegs and Strabane and between Letterkenny and Strabane as is situated in the county of Donegal.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of October, 1959.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS,

Minister for Transport and Power.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of the Order, which comes into operation on 1st January, 1960, is to authorise the County Donegal Joint Committee to terminate train services on the Strabane—Letterkenny and the Strabane—Killybegs lines.