sirjohnmacneill

25" OSI O'Dea took a reverse shot which shows the station house and platform. All the buildings were demolished in the 70's for 'security' reasons.

The station has a little entry in wikipedia, which states that the station closed in 1965, around the time of this photo.

Aerial view from Google maps. The station, platform and signal box were South of the road from the East, near the line of trees. In the OSI's Ortho from 2000, you can still see the spot where the station was, but it is overgrown now.

Conflicting closing dates---- 1887 or 1965? "The station opened July 1850 by the Dublin & Belfast Junction Railway. Initially named “Plaster”, the station was renamed “Mount Pleasant and Jonesborough” the following year. In 1855, it became “Mount Pleasant”. The station closed in 1865 but reopened later, only to be finally closed in 1887." An Industrial Heritage survey of Railways in Counties Monaghan and Louth page 35

I don't think the station looks abandoned for 80 years - I think the 1965 date for closure looks more likely...

What a stately edifice. I thought it was a country estate before I read your narrative!

Looks as though he knows he's been caught in the act by his actions :) That was a magnificient building. Torn down in the name of progress.

Nick Stewart It's a bit scruffier round the back. I've spent many an hour sitting on its draughty platforms between trains as a small child on my way to visit my grandparents.

Robin Parkes Aw, is the building gone? Or the whole railway station?

derangedlemur I have vague memories of Omagh station as a child. Mr.Beeching's axe got it though, along with countless others.

At least I recognised this one :-)

Cuddly Nutter Shouldn't have outed yourself! Will be expecting great things from you today then... :)

Google Streetview

Not many clues here! Crossmaglen and Poyntzpass still have livestock markets as do Newtownhamilton and Hilltown. Not sure how to find out about old ones.

Completed in 1851 acoording to Wikipedia

I was thinking Memorial Bridge (?) in Dublin City Centre but it looks too short for that?

*cough* Hargrave not Hargreave.

It looks as if there are points near the camera, suggesting that this is the whole bridge - quite short all right.

Looks a bit forrin to me.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that the distant signal with a swallow-tail and a bobble and spike on top is a GWR feature and we should maybe be looking in the UK.