Eglinton railway station

Eglinton
NIR 80 Class train passing through Eglinton station in 1979
Location
Place	Eglinton
Area	County Londonderry
Coordinates	55°03′02″N 7°11′05″W / 55.0505°N 7.1847°WCoordinates: 55°03′02″N 7°11′05″W / 55.0505°N 7.1847°W
Operations
Original company	Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
Pre-grouping	Belfast and Northern Counties Railway
Post-grouping	Northern Ireland Railways
History
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 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	Northern Ireland 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

References

1. "Eglinton station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
2. The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984

Steam train passing through Eglinton station on 1 September 1979

Level crossing in Eglinton in 2007

Eglinton Signal Cabin in 1975