Cookstown Junction railway station

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]

  1. ^ Railway Magazine June 1936 p. 414