1885-1959 Belturbet Heritage Railway Museum Only Open Weekends

We arrived at this Heritage Railway Museum at Belturbet Co Cavan only to find it shut. The same was the case for most visitor attractions. They are shut during the week. As we found out you need to visit at weekends 12- 5pm or else you will be disappointed. We did enjoy our walk round the outside of the building though. Belturbet was the former terminus station of both the 4¼ mile Ballyhaise to Belturbet branch of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) line and of the Cavan and Leitrim Railway. For many years the station was somewhat derelict but it is now fully restored and houses a museum. The platform remains extant too and a small length of track has been reinstated together with some rolling stock Belturbet Railway Station was the Northern Terminus for the famed Cavan-Leitrim Narrow Gauge Railway Line which served Belturbet, Ballyconnell, Ballinamore, Dromod and extended to the Arigna mine in 1920. Built in 1885, Belturbet Station in County Cavan has been fully restored and now houses an interesting exhibition telling the story of the railway age in Cavan. Belturbet was the only station on the Great Northern Railway System to be built entirely of cut stone.