Killagan railway station

Killagan
Killagan Station as viewed on 3 January 1996, the main station building has been removed, but the goods shed which was attached to the station, is still in use as a farmers storage shed.
General information
Location	County Antrim Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54°59′03″N 6°22′07″W / 54.9841°N 6.3685°W / 54.9841; -6.3685
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Belfast and Northern Counties Railway
Post-grouping	Northern Ireland Railways
Key dates
4 December 1855	Station opens as Bellaghy
1 January 1876	Station renamed Killagan
2 July 1973	Station closes

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

The station closed to passengers on 2 July 1973.

Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways	Following station
Glarryford		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Derry	Dunloy
	Historical railways
Glarryford Line open, station closed		Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway Ballymena-Portrush	Dunloy Line open, station closed

^ "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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