Castlerock railway station serves the villages of Castlerock, Articlave and their surrounding hamlets in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Walkers use the station to reach Mussenden Temple, Downhill Strand and Benone.
The station opened on 18 July 1853 and was built to a design by the architect Charles Lanyon. It comprised a single-storey red brick on the 'up' platform. There is a modern two storey addition to this in a similar style.[1]
As part of works to upgrade the Coleraine-Derry railway line, the passing loop at Castlerock station was discontinued and replaced with a new loop at Bellarena. The station signal box which was the last full-time mechanical signal box on the NIR network and the last to use block tokens was subsequently closed on 2 November 2016.[2] The down platform, despite receiving a complete refurbishment two years prior, has now been taken out of service and the track lifted. All services calling at Castlerock now use the former up platform.
Service
Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service towards Derry~Londonderry or Belfast Great Victoria Street operated by Northern Ireland Railways.
On Sundays there are 6 trains in each direction.
References
- ↑ McCutcheon, William Alan (1984). The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (1st American ed.). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-3125-6.
- ↑ "Castlerock: Final stop for NI Railways train signal box". BBC News. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2021.