Trains crossing at Castlerock in 2016. The down platform on the left has now been taken out of service and no longer has a running track.
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.
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^McCutcheon, William Alan (1984). The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (1st American ed.). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN978-0-8386-3125-6.
^"Castlerock: Final stop for NI Railways train signal box". BBC News. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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