Kingscourt, Co.Louth, was the terminus of a dead end branchline built by an independant railway company in 1872 from the GNR's line at Navan. This company was taken over by the MGWR, who had envisaged the line been extended north to Great Northern territory and ultimately to Cookstown. This never came about and thus the Kingscourt line remained a somewhat useless branchline, serving sparse pockets of population in the area it traversed. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1947, but the line remained in use for gypsum traffic from Kingscourt to the Platin cement works near Drogheda until 2001, when that traffic transferred to road.

Today, the Kingscourt line remains disused and disconnected beyond Navan, and is slowly falling into a derelict state. Kingscourt Station itself was under renovation when I photographed it. The station, a two story brick built one, had also an attached goods shed, the platform also partly remains. A gypsum loading pad was constructed at the south end of the station to load wagons by digger. The trackwork consisted of a runround loop and derelict siding.