page_title: Ulster Transport Authority
section_title: Split into rail and road companies
hierarchical_section_title: Ulster Transport Authority / Split into rail and road companies
caption_attribution_description: English: The Northway, Portadown (1). The Northway is a through-pass connecting the M12 350735 to the roads to Newry and Armagh. It was built, in part, on the bed of the GNR(I) Portadown/Armagh/Monaghan/Clones/Cavan line - closed in stages between 1957 and 1960 (although a stub remained in Portadown, as a siding to the Metal Box factory on the Brownstown Road until 1965. The level crossing hut remained for another few years). This is the view towards the centre of Portadown from the Brownstown Road flyover. Continue to 1597606.
context_page_description: The Ulster Transport Authority ran rail and bus transport in Northern Ireland from 1948 until 1966.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Portadown with former GNR (potential) line to Armagh.
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