Eglinton | |||||||
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Train_at_Eglinton_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2422817.jpg) NIR 80 Class train passing through Eglinton station in 1979 | |||||||
| General information | |||||||
| Location | Eglinton, County Londonderry Northern Ireland | ||||||
| Coordinates | 55°03′02″N 7°11′05″W / 55.0505°N 7.1847°W | ||||||
| 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" | ||||||
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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.
- ^ "Eglinton station" (PDF). Railscot – Irish Railways. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984