Trew and Moy railway station

Trew and Moy railway station was a railway station in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The station was near Trew Mount, over 2 miles (3 kilometres) north of Moy.

Trew and Moy
Main building of former station in 2010
LocationTrew Mount, County Tyrone
Northern Ireland
UK
Coordinates 54.480°N 6.677°W / 54.480; -6.677
Platforms2
History
Original companyPortadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway
Post-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Key dates
1858[1]Station opened
1899–1902[1]Track doubled east of station
1959[1]Track singled east of station
15 February 1965[2]Station closed

History

The station was opened in 1858 by the Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway, which the Great Northern Railway (GNR) took over in 1876.[3] Trew and Moy was served by GNR passenger trains between Belfast Great Victoria Street and Londonderry Foyle Road via Portadown. The station became important in the export of horses from Moy's annual week-long horse fair.[4] The Ulster Transport Authority took over the GNR's remaining lines in Northern Ireland in 1958[5] and closed the PD&O line on 15 February 1965.[2]

The former station is now a mushroom distribution business. The main station building, which was on the south side of the station beside the down platform, is now offices, and the former goods shed is a staff facility. A lower quadrant stop signal, a lower quadrant distant signal 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 relocated as a summer house.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Vernersbridge   Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway
Portadown to Omagh		   Dungannon
Vernersbridge   Ulster Transport Authority
Portadown — Omagh line		   Dungannon

References
  1. Hajducki, 1974, map 8
  2. Baker 1972, pp. 155, 209.
  3. Hajducki 1974, p. xiii.
  4. FitzGerald 1995, p. 1.
  5. Hajducki 1974, pp. xii, xiii.

Sources
  • Baker, Michael H.C. (1972). Irish Railways since 1916. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0 7110 0282 7.
  • FitzGerald, J.D. (1995). The Derry Road. Colourpoint Transport. 2. Gortrush: Colourpoint Press. ISBN 1-898392-09-9.
  • Hajducki, S. Maxwell (1974). A Railway Atlas of Ireland. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5167-2.
  • Former goods shed, just west of passenger station
  • Passenger shelter from "up" platform, repositioned in a garden with former GNR signals
  • Remains of timetable poster inside former "up" platform shelter
  • Royal Mail Victorian wallbox in front wall of main building


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