Cookstown Junction railway station

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Cookstown Junction
Drumsough Station - geograph.org.uk - 397609.jpg
The remains of Cookstown Junction / Drumsough station in 2007
General information
Location Randalstown, County Antrim
Northern Ireland
Coordinates 54°44′58″N6°15′51″W / 54.7495°N 6.2642°W / 54.7495; -6.2642
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Belfast and Ballymena Railway
Pre-grouping Belfast and Northern Counties Railway
Post-grouping Belfast and Northern Counties Railway
Key dates
11 April 1848Station opens as Drumscough Junction
ca. 1850Station renamed Drumscough
November 1856Station renamed Cookstown Junction
26 April 1976Station renamed Drumcough Junction
17 October 1976Station closes

Cookstown Junction railway station served the townland of Drumsough outside Randalstown in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was a single island platform at the junction of the Cookstown extension to Magherafelt, Cookstown, Draperstown and Macfin. [1]

History

A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (top, left of centre) railways in the vicinity of Cookstown Junction Antrim, Cookstown & Navan Buxton, High Peak & New Mills RJD 10.jpg
A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (top, left of centre) railways in the vicinity of Cookstown Junction

The station was opened as Drumsough Junction by the Belfast and Ballymena Railway on 11 April 1848. [2]

It was renamed Cookstown Junction on 1 October 1858.

The station closed to passengers on 28 August 1950.

Preceding station  NIR logo.svg Northern Ireland Railways  Following station
Antrim   Ulster Transport Authority
Belfast-Derry
  Kellswater
Terminus  Ulster Transport Authority
Drumsough-Cookstown
  Randalstown
  Historical railways  
Antrim   Belfast and Ballymena Railway
Belfast York Road-Ballymena
  Kellswater
Terminus  Belfast and Ballymena Railway
Cookstown Junction-Cookstown
  Randalstown

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References

  1. Railway Magazine June 1936 p. 414
  2. "Cookstown Junction station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 29 April 2012.