Adavoyle railway station

Adavoyle
Location
Location	Adavoyle
Area	County Armagh
Operations
Original company	Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Northern Railway of Ireland
Post-grouping	Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
History
1892	Station opens
1933	Station closes
Disused railway stations in Ireland
Closed railway stations in Ireland A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Adavoyle was a station in the rural townland of Adavoyle, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

History

The station was opened in 1892 by the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway railways, then absorbed into the Northern Railway of Ireland. Then it was taken over by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). The station closed under this management in 1933.

On 24 June 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombed a British military train near the station. Four British soldiers were killed and twenty wounded. The attack was carried out by volunteers of the IRA's Fourth Northern Division, led by Frank Aiken. The soldiers had been returning from the opening of Northern Ireland's new parliament, which took place in Belfast two days before.

Future Taoiseach Éamon de Valera was ‘deported’ through this station by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in 1924 when he was arrested at the Canal Street police station [1], and put on the train to Dublin at Adavoyle.[2].

The building has been restored, and will be a dwelling house. [3] The Dublin-Belfast railway line, including the Enterprise services, still passes the former platforms.[4]

References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1-85260-508-1

• Geograph [5]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Newry		Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Dublin-Belfast		Dundalk