Abandoned Station, Virginia Rd, Co Meath, Ireland.
Built to serve the opening of the Oldcastle to Drogheda railway branch in 1853, Virginia road station has been a plucky survivor. This was possibly due to the remoteness to the village it was supposed to serve in neighbouring Co Cavan. The ‘road’ in the name subtly emphasing it wasn’t in the village itself.
The station had was relatively substantial considering, with a large goods shed and signal box on spacious grounds, although only it ever had a single passenger platform to accommodate the station master house and booking offices.
The station closed with the branch in 1963, one hundred years after the branch opening. The station remained in a abandoned hiatus for many years until it was privately restored as a wholesale base for Sheridan’s Cheese mongers in the early noughties.
1995 - Illford Neo Pan film - Nikkormat SLR - Nikkor 28mm Lens. - Direct Scan.
Abandoned Station, Virginia Rd, Co Meath, Ireland.
Built to serve the opening of the Oldcastle to Drogheda railway branch in 1853, Virginia road station has been a plucky survivor. This was possibly due to the remoteness to the village it was supposed to serve in neighbouring Co Cavan. The ‘road’ in the name subtly emphasing it wasn’t in the village itself.
The station had was relatively substantial considering, with a large goods shed and signal box on spacious grounds, although only it ever had a single passenger platform to accommodate the station master house and booking offices.
The station closed with the branch in 1963, one hundred years after the branch opening. The station remained in a abandoned hiatus for many years until it was privately restored as a wholesale base for Sheridan’s Cheese mongers in the early noughties.
1995 - Illford Neo Pan film - Nikkormat SLR - Nikkor 28mm Lens. - Direct Scan.