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Cookstown is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth largest town in the county and had a population of 11,599 in the 2011 census. It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one of the main towns in the Mid-Ulster council area. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the Archbishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls during the Plantation of Ulster. It was one of the main centres of the linen industry west of the River Bann, and until 1956, the processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town.
The Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) ran rail and bus transport in Northern Ireland from 1948 until 1966.
The Northern Counties Committee (NCC) was a railway that served the north-east of Ireland. It was built to Irish gauge but later acquired a number of 914 mm narrow gauge lines. It had its origins in the Belfast and Ballymena Railway that opened to traffic on 11 April 1848.
Ballymena railway station serves the town of Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is located just outside Ballymena town centre on the Galgorm Road, and is integrated with the local bus station. It is situated on the Derry line between Antrim and Cullybackey. The station is operated by Northern Ireland Railways.
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Goldbeat was an AM radio station broadcasting on 828 kHz in Cookstown, Northern Ireland. It was launched in 1995 as Townland Radio, but was purchased in 1997 by media tycoon Owen Oyston who had already bought and relaunched Belfast Community Radio in 1996. The Oyston group relaunched Townland Radio as Goldbeat 828, but the station folded in 1999 along with sister station Heartbeat 1521 AM in Craigavon. Both AM licences were handed back to the then UK regulator The Radio Authority. At the time only one other radio licence in the UK had ever been handed back to the regulator.
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Castledawson railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Cookstown Junction to Cookstown in Northern Ireland.
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Cookstown railway station was one of two stations serving Cookstown in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland.
Magherafelt railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Cookstown Junction to Cookstown in Northern Ireland.
Moneymore railway station in Moneymore, County Londonderry, was on an extension of the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Cookstown Junction in County Antrim to Cookstown in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland.
Toome Bridge railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Cookstown Junction to Cookstown in Northern Ireland. Located in Toome in County Antrim on the River Bann with County Londonderry across the river.
Randalstown railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Cookstown Junction to Cookstown in Northern Ireland.
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.
Andraid railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Belfast to Ballymena in Northern Ireland.
Whitehouse railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from Belfast to Ballymena in Northern Ireland.
Cookstown railway station served Cookstown in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland.
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- ↑ "Staffordstown station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
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