Cross Roads railway station was on the

Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway The Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway was a Narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge railway between Ballymena railway station, Ballymena and Retreat railway station (Northern Ireland), Retreat, both in County Antrim, in what is now Northern ...

which ran from

Ballymena Ballymena ( ; from , meaning 'the middle townland') is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 31,205 people at the 2021 United Kingdom census, making it the List of localities in Northern Ireland by population, seven ...

to Retreat in

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, County Antrim, Antrim, ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the c ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...

History

The station was on the

route and opened by the

Belfast and Northern Counties Railway The Northern Counties Committee (NCC) was a railway that served the north-east of Ireland. It was built to Irish gauge () but later acquired a number of narrow gauge lines. It had its origins in the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which opened ...

on 1 August 1886, which had taken ownership in October 1884. The station closed to passengers on 1 October 1930.

References

* * * {{coord, 54.978796, -6.2047, type:railwaystation, display=title Disused railway stations in County Antrim Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1886 Railway stations in Northern Ireland closed in 1930