Cookstown Junction | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Randalstown, County Antrim |
Country: | Northern Ireland |
Coordinates: | 54.7495°N -6.2642°W |
Original: | Belfast and Ballymena Railway |
Pregroup: | Belfast and Northern Counties Railway |
Postgroup: | Belfast and Northern Counties Railway |
Years: | 11 April 1848 |
Events: | Station opens as Drumscough Junction |
Years1: | ca. 1850 |
Events1: | Station renamed Drumscough |
Years2: | November 1856 |
Events2: | Station renamed Cookstown Junction |
Years3: | 26 April 1976 |
Events3: | Station renamed Drumcough Junction |
Years4: | 17 October 1976 |
Events4: | Station 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]
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.