Boyne Valley to Lakelands Greenway

The branch line that the greenway was built on was authorised for construction by the Navan and Kingscourt Railway Co. on 5 July 1865,^[10] and would reach as far as Kilmainhamwood on 1 November 1872. It would open to its final terminus at Kingscourt on 1 November 1875,^[11] but it was hoped the line could be extended further north. The Kingscourt, Keady and Armagh Railway Co. was incorporated in 1900 to extend the railway,^[12] but the section between Kingscourt and Castleblayney was abandoned in 1902.^[13] The Midland Great Western Railway (who had acquired the line in 1888) would be authorised to complete the line to Castleblayney on 11 August 1903,^[14] but it would ultimately never occur.

The line would find its primary source of traffic with the opening of a siding in 1939 at Kingscourt to allow trains to haul Kingscourt Gypsum.^[15] Passenger service on the line would be discontinued during the harsh winter of 1947 on 27 January and never reopen.^[11] The line would stop seeing non-gypsum traffic in 1975 and would ultimately close on 30 October 2001 after a driver's strike as gypsum switched to road haulage.^[16]

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53°44′02″N 6°42′39″W / 53.734°N 6.7109306°W / 53.734; -6.7109306 (Wilkinstown crossing, Boyne Valley to Lakelands Greenway)

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