Cookstown Junction
The remains of Cookstown Junction / Drumsough station in 2007
General information
LocationRandalstown, County Antrim
Northern Ireland
Coordinates54°44′58″N 6°15′51″W / 54.7495°N 6.2642°W / 54.7495; -6.2642
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyBelfast and Ballymena Railway
Pre-groupingBelfast and Northern Counties Railway
Post-groupingBelfast 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

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   Northern Ireland Railways   Following station Antrim   Ulster Transport AuthorityBelfast-Derry   Kellswater Terminus   Ulster Transport AuthorityDrumsough-Cookstown   Randalstown   Historical railways   Antrim   Belfast and Ballymena RailwayBelfast York Road-Ballymena   Kellswater Terminus   Belfast and Ballymena RailwayCookstown Junction-Cookstown   Randalstown

References

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