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Randalstown railway station was on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which ran from
Cookstown Junction 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 ...
to Cookstown in
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
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History

The station was opened by the Belfast and Ballymena Railway on 11 April 1848. The station buildings were designed by the architect
Charles Lanyon Sir Charles Lanyon DL, JP (6 January 1813 – 31 May 1889) was an English architect of the 19th century. His work is most closely associated with Belfast, Northern Ireland. Biography Lanyon was born in Eastbourne, Sussex (now East Sussex) in ...
.The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984 The station was moved and re-opened on 10 November 1856 when the line was extended to Cookstown. The station closed to passengers on 28 August 1950.


References

Disused railway stations in County Antrim Railway stations opened in 1848 Railway stations closed in 1950 {{NorthernIreland-railstation-stub Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1848