Eglinton railway station (Northern Ireland)

This article is about the station in Northern Ireland. For other uses, see Eglinton station (disambiguation).

Eglinton
NIR 80 Class train passing through Eglinton station in 1979
General information
Location	Eglinton, County Londonderry Northern Ireland
Coordinates	55°03′02″N7°11′05″W / 55.0505°N 7.1847°W / 55.0505; -7.1847
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
Pre-grouping	Belfast and Northern Counties Railway
Post-grouping	Northern Ireland Railways
Key dates
29 November 1852	Station opens as Willsborough
1 October 1853	Station renamed Muff
1 February 1854	Station renamed Eglinton
1873–1875	New station buildings erected
2 July 1973	Station closes. (Regular services had ceased on 15 March 1971 but the station remained "available for use as required"
Location Eglinton Location within Northern Ireland

Eglinton railway station served the village of Eglinton in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.

The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway opened the station as Willsborough on 29 November 1852. ^[1] It was renamed Muff on 1 October 1853, and Eglinton on 1 February 1854.

New station buildings were erected between 1873 and 1875 to designs by the architect John Lanyon. ^[2]

It closed on 2 July 1973.

Routes

Preceding station		NI Railways		Following station
Limavady Junction		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Derry		Culmore
	Historical railways
Faughanvale Line open, station closed		Londonderry and Coleraine Railway Coleraine-Derry		Culmore Line open, station closed

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  Steam train passing through Eglinton station on 1 September 1979
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  Level crossing in Eglinton in 2007
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  Eglinton Signal Cabin in 1975

References

1. "Eglinton station" (PDF). Railscot – Irish Railways. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
2. The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984

External links

• Media related to Eglinton railway station at Wikimedia Commons