Cavan railway station in Swellan in Cavan Town was a former station on the Inny Junction to Cavan branch of the

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History

The Clones and Cavan Extension Railway was an extension of the

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from Clones in

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to Cavan opened in 1862. The station in

Cavan Cavan ( ; ) is the county town of County Cavan in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town lies in Ulster, near the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The town is bypassed by the main N3 road (Ireland), N3 road that links Dublin ( ...

was opened firstly by the

with trains to Dublin Broadstone. However the

also sought to link Cavan with Belfast Great Victoria Street. After the railway line closed in 1960, the station was later refurbished as an office building. From 2000 to 2018, it housed the offices of

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Newspaper. The station was recommended for reopening in 2023 in an All-Island Strategic Railway Review, as part of a line from

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Services

References

* {{cite book, pages=62, 63 & 128, last=Bairstow, first=M., title=Railways In Ireland Part Three, year=2009, publisher=Martin Bairstow, isbn=978-1-871944-36-5 * Ordnance Survey of Ireland Discovery Series 1:50,000 map no. 34 shows the station locale. Disused railway stations in County Cavan Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1856 Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland closed in 1960 1856 establishments in Ireland Proposed railway stations in the Republic of Ireland