Disused railway lines and closed stations in Northern Ireland

564 miles of disused railway
216 closed stations
39 named lost lines

Northern Ireland has 564 miles of disused railway and 216 closed stations. The longest lost line is the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway, with 54 miles of its route inside Northern Ireland.

See Northern Ireland’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 564 miles of lost railway in Northern Ireland break down as 490 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 50 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 24 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Northern Ireland

39 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Northern Ireland; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway	54
Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway	41
Belfast and County Down Railway	35
Great Northern Railway (Ireland) - Banbridge & Castlewellan Branch	33
Cookstown Junction - Cookstown Line	28
Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway	27
Great Northern Railway (Ireland) - Warrenpoint, Newry & Armagh Branch	26
Antrim Branch	20
GNR	20
Ballycastle Railway	15
Donaghadee Branch	14
GNR Cookstown Branch	14
Limavady Railway	13
Finn Valley Railway	13
Castleblayney, Keady & Armagh Railway	13
Great Northern Railway (Ireland)	11
L&NWR - Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Branch	11
Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway	7.5
Ardglass Branch	7.4
Draperstown Railway	6.6
Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway	5.9
GNR Cavan & Clones Branch	5.1
Great Northern Railway (Ireland) - (Scarva & Banbridge branch)	3.6
Ballynahinch Branch	3.5
BCDR Castlewellan Branch	3.5
Bessbrook and Newry Tramway	3.0
Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway	3.0
Great Northern Railway (Ireland) – Scarva & Banbridge Branch	2.9
Irish North Western Railway	2.0
Foyle Valley Railway	1.4
Crumlin - Gortnagallon (Closed 1945)	1.2
Lissummon Railway Tunnel	1.0
Scrabo Quarry Tramway	0.8
Fintona Branch	0.6
Strabane and Letterkenny Railway	0.6
Castleblayney, Keady and Armagh Railway	0.5
Clogher Valley Railway	0.4
Great Northern Railway (Ireland) - Albert Basin Branch	0.4
Omagh Market Station Branch	0.4

Closed railway stations in Northern Ireland

All 216 closed and former stations in Northern Ireland, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Lost railways nearby

Argyll and Bute.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The whole of Northern Ireland is counted as one area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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