Trew and Moy railway station was a railway station in

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. The station was near Trew Mount, over north of Moy.

History

The station was opened in 1858 by the

Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway The Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (PD&O) was an Irish gauge () railway in County Armagh and County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland (now Northern Ireland). Early development Building of the PD&O line started from Portadown in 1855 a ...

, which the Great Northern Railway (GNR) took over in 1876. Trew and Moy was served by GNR passenger trains between and via . The station became important in the export of horses from Moy's annual week-long horse fair. The

Ulster Transport Authority The Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) ran rail and bus transport in Northern Ireland from 1948 until 1966. Formation and consolidation The UTA was formed by the Transport Act 1948, which merged the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board (NIRTB ...

took over the GNR's remaining lines in Northern Ireland in 1958 and closed the PD&O line on 15 February 1965. The former station now holds a mushroom distribution business. The main station building, which was on the south side of the station beside the down platform, now contains offices, and the former goods shed is a staff facility. A lower quadrant stop signal, a lower quadrant

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and a shunting signal have been relocated to a garden beside the station, along with a wooden shelter from the up platform that has been repurposed as a summer house.

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Gallery

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