Selected: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, LORD EDWARD STREET, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)

Name:	CROWE BROS.
Building:	CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, LORD EDWARD STREET, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date:	1863
Nature:	This and 8 other stations on Longford-Sligo line built by Crowe Bros. Architect: George Wilkinson.(Rebuilt after Civil War.)
Refs:	IAA, PKS A03 (Apr,Oct 1861, p.84v), L1 (pp.110-111,170); DB 5, 1 Feb 1863, 17

Name:	WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building:	CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, LORD EDWARD STREET, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date:	1863
Nature:	New station for Midland Great Western Railway Co.. Station shed 330 x 80 ft. with single span iron roof. Station building 80 x 30 ft. Also masive retaining wall, engine sheds, carpenter's shop & smithy. Goods depot 8900 ft long. Opened July 1863. Contractor: Crowe Bros. and Edmundson & Co., Dublin.( This and 8 other stations on Boyle-Sligo line built by Crowe Bros.) 'His station at Sligo…has a bleak magnificence about it' (Sheehy).. Opened July 1863. (Rebuilt after Civil War; compensation claim of £40,334)
Refs:	DB 5, 1 Feb,15 Jul 1863, 17,125; IAA, PKS A03 (Apr ,Oct 1861, p.84v), A09 (Apr 1923) and L1 (pp.110-111,170); Jeanne Sheehy, 'Railway Architecture - its heyday', Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society 12, no. 68 (Oct 1975), 138; R.J.V. Butt, The Directory of Railway Stations (1995), 213; Michael Gould & Ronald Cox, 'The railway stations of George Wilkinson', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 6 (2003), 189

Name:	UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building:	CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, LORD EDWARD STREET, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date:	1923-26
Nature:	Rebuilding property as it existed prior to 23 Apr 1923; estimated cost £40,334. For Midland Great Western Railway Co. Almost rebuilt by 1926; 'roofing is in a novel style ...seems to be first of its kind in Ireland' (Kilgannon)
Refs:	IAA, PKS 0970, A09 (Apr 1923); Tadhg Kilgannon, Sligo and its surroundings (Sligo, 1926), 115.