Never very prosperous, it suffered, like many branches, with the onset of the private motor car, and bus, and passenger rail services were withdrawn in 1934, although the occasional special served the line from time to time, there was never a regular passenger timetable on the line after that.
[citation needed] The line was 'mothballed' and was disconnected from the mainline within a few years, although the official Abandonment Order was not effected until 1987.
The rail tracks were lifted in the same year, and were still in good condition, having remained in situ since disconnection from the mainline.
Today, little evidence remains of 'The Junction' although the trackbed itself has been largely retained, and is now a public cross-country walking track.
[citation needed] The junction itself has been severed from the former branch by the Dublin-Belfast M1 Motorway, which cut through the trackbed in 2001.