page_title: Laytown railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Laytown railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Laytown, Co. Meath: GNR Class S 4-4-0 steam locomotive 171 Slieve Gullion on an RPSI excursion train
context_page_description: Laytown railway station serves Laytown and Bettystown in County Meath, Ireland.
  It is about 20 minutes' walk from the venue of yearly Laytown races.
context_section_description: The station opened on 25 May 1844 and was renamed by the Great Northern Railway as Laytown & Bettystown in 1913. It was since renamed back to Laytown.
caption: A Great Northern Railway (Ireland) locomotive Slieve Gullion, on a special run by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland in May 1985, heading through the station.
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