Cavan railway station

This article is about the station in Ireland. For the station in South Australia, see Cavan railway station, Adelaide.

Cavan
General information
LocationCavan, County Cavan
Ireland
Platforms3
History
Pre-groupingMidland Great Western Railway and the Great Northern Railway of Ireland
Key dates
1856station opened (line from Inny Jct.)
1862GNR line from Clones opened
1947Station closed to MGWR passengers
1957Station closed to GNR passengers
1959last passenger special
1960line closed to all traffic
1961line lifted

Cavan railway station in Swellan in Cavan Town was a former station on the Inny Junction to Cavan branch of the Midland Great Western Railway, Ireland.[1][2]

History

The Clones and Cavan Extension Railway was an extension of the Ulster Railway from Clones in County Monaghan to Cavan opened in 1862. The station in Cavan was opened firstly by the Midland Great Western Railway with trains to Dublin Broadstone. However the Ulster Railway also sought to link Cavan with Belfast Great Victoria Street.

After the railway line closed in 1960, the station was later refurbished as an office building. From 2000 to 2018, it housed the offices of The Anglo-Celt Newspaper.[3][4]

The station was recommended for reopening in 2023 in an All-Island Strategic Railway Review, as part of a line from Mullingar to Portadown.[5]

Services

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Crossdoney   Midland Great Western Railway
Inny Junction-Cavan 		  terminus
terminus   Great Northern Railway
Clones-Cavan 		  Loreto College Halt
  Proposed Services  
Mullingar   All-Island Strategic Rail Review
Mullingar-Portadown Line 		  Clones

References

  1. ^ "Cavan station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Cavan". Eire Trains.
  3. ^ "Contact Us". The Anglo-Celt. 11 October 2007.
  4. ^ "New chapter for the Celt". 27 February 2018.
  5. ^ "All-Island Strategic Rail Review makes 30 proposals to develop railways in Ireland". Railway Gazette International. 26 July 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  • Bairstow, M. (2009). Railways In Ireland Part Three. Martin Bairstow. pp. 62, 63 & 128. ISBN 978-1-871944-36-5.
  • Ordnance Survey of Ireland Discovery Series 1:50,000 map no. 34 shows the station locale.