Keady railway station

Following their acquisition of the Dublin and Meath and Navan and Kingscourt Railways in 1888, the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) envisaged extending the now "Meath Road" branch line from Kingscourt to Armagh, and possibly even to Cookstown, but this never materialised.^[1] Part of this proposal did eventually come to fruition as the Castleblayney, Keady and Armagh Railway in 1902.^[2] The line was opened on the 31 May 1909 and operated by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland),^[3] although some reports suggest the line opened to goods the year prior.^[4] Keady was the initial terminus for the line before it was extended to Castleblayney the following year.^[5] The CK&A was then purchased by the GNRI the year after that, becoming the Keady branch.

The station became the southern terminus again in 1923 with the closure of the line south of Keady due to the effects of partition and the border. The Keady branch was closed to passenger traffic on 1 February 1932.^[6] In 1957 the Government of Northern Ireland made the GNR close much of its remaining network in Northern Ireland, including goods traffic from the remaining section of the Keady branch from 1 October 1957.^[7]