The attack was carried out by volunteers of the IRA's Fourth Northern Division, led by Frank Aiken.

The soldiers had been returning from the opening of Northern Ireland's new parliament, which took place in Belfast two days before.

[4] The Dublin-Belfast railway line, including the Enterprise services, still passes the former platforms.

[5] Tony Miles' Adavoyle Junction in 1963 was an important early model railway using the P4 Finescale standards.

[6] The railway was somewhat fictionalised, as a larger junction with two GNR branches added to it: one running north-west to Monaghan, and the other south-east to a LNWR packet port at Greenore.