Killagan Railway Station
Killagan railway station served the villages of Bellaghy and Killagan in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
History
The station was opened as Bellaghy by the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway on 4 December 1855. It was taken over by the Northern Counties Committee in January 1861.
It was renamed Killagan on 1 January 1876.
The signal box at Killagan was destroyed in 1921 and again in 1957 during periods of civil disturbance.
The station closed to passengers on 2 July 1973.
References
- ^ "Killagan station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984
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