Mountpleasant railway station

Mountpleasant railway station (alternatively Mount Pleasant) was a railway station in County Louth, Ireland on the Belfast - Dublin Railway line. The station closed in 1965.

Mountpleasant
Mountpleasant station on 3 August 1974, then disused, not long before it was blown up by the IRA
General information
Location	North Louth, County Louth Ireland
Coordinates	54.0473°N 6.3775°W / 54.0473; -6.3775
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
History
Original company	Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway
Post-grouping	Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
Key dates
1852	Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway completed to Drogheda
1965	Station Closed
Location

The now demolished station was located in the Mountpleasant area of County Louth, north of Dundalk and close to Aghnaskeagh, Ravensdale, Currathir Bridge and Ballymakellelt. Although the station once comprised a Station House, Signal House, and platform, the disused structures were destroyed in the 1970s as a result of law-enforcement officials considering that they had been used to support Irish Republicans in the Northern Ireland Troubles.^[1]

First known as Plaster railway station, the station was unusual in having only one platform and sat between Dundalk, to the south, and Adavoyle (which closed in 1933), to the north. At the time of closure, it was the nearest railway station to the Northern Ireland frontier, just 2.6 km (1½ miles) away.

Routes

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