{"id":2085,"date":"2026-05-29T21:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:07:17","slug":"belcoo-blacklion-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/belcoo-blacklion-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Belcoo &#038; Blacklion Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The former station at Belcoo &amp; Blacklion, in Co. Fermanagh but close enough to Blacklion in Co. Cavan to have the latter place in its name, was a station on the former Sligo, Leitrim &amp; Northern Counties railway line from Collooney, Co. Sligo to Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The station and line closed in 1957 by virtue of an edict of the Northern Ireland Government to close most the GNR(I) railway lines west of the River Bann. This led to other line closures by virtue of the loss of connectivity, including the still independent SL&amp;NCR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daft.ie\/for-sale\/house-railway-cottage-belcoo-co-fermanagh\/6450407\">station building in Belcoo<\/a> is currently for sale. I will not be expressing an interest in it as it is in Northern Ireland rather than in the Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former station at Belcoo &amp; Blacklion, in Co. Fermanagh but close enough to Blacklion in Co. Cavan to have the latter place in its name, was a station on the former Sligo, Leitrim &amp; Northern Counties railway line from Collooney, Co. Sligo to Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. The station and line closed in 1957 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}