Downhill railway station
Appearance
Downhill | |
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General information | |
Location | County Londonderry |
Owned by | Northern Ireland Railways |
Managed by | Belfast and Northern Counties Railway |
Line(s) | Londonderry and Coleraine Railway |
Platforms | 1 |
Key dates | |
18 July 1853 | Station opens |
3 September 1973 | Station closes |
Downhill railway station served the hamlet of Downhill in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway opened the station on 18 July 1853.[1] A station building and adjacent station house was erected in 1874 to designs by the architect John Lanyon.[2]
It closed on 3 September 1973.
Routes
References
- ^ "Downhill station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
- ^ The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984