Kingscourt railway station

Kingscourt railway station is a former passenger and freight station in Kingscourt, County Cavan, Ireland.

The station was built in 1875 by the independent Navan and Kingscourt Railway, as the terminus of its line from Navan. In 1888, the company was purchased by the Midland Great Western Railway. The MGWR envisaged extending the line from Kingscourt to Cookstown via Carrickmacross, Castleblayney, Armagh and Dungannon, but this never materialised. (A line from Castleblayney to Armagh, via Keady, was eventually built in the early 1900s and operated by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland).)

Following the creation of the Irish Free State, the MGWR became part of the Great Southern Railways in 1925, which in turn became part of Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) in 1945. In 1947, CIÉ withdrew passenger services between Kingscourt and Navan. Goods services from Kingscourt to Dublin Port via Navan and Clonsilla were re-routed via Drogheda in 1958 and then largely withdrawn in 1963, following which the section to Navan was used almost exclusively for the transport of gypsum from a terminal adjacent to the station, owned and operated by BPB Gypsum Industries.

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