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Cookstown Junction railway station

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Place
  
Randalstown

Area
  
County Antrim

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Pre-grouping
  
Belfast and Northern Counties Railway

Post-grouping
  
Belfast and Northern Counties Railway

11 April 1848
  
Station opens as Drumscough Junction

ca. 1850
  
Station renamed Drumscough

Original company
  
Northern Counties Committee

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.

History

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

It was renamed Cookstown Junction on 1 October 1858.

The station closed to passengers on 28 August 1950.

References

Cookstown Junction railway station Wikipedia