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Coleraine railway station serves the town of
The station was opened by the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway on 4 December 1855 to designs by the architect
On weekdays, there is an hourly service operating to , with extra services at peak times, and some late night and early morning trains terminating here. In the other direction, the service alternates every hour between continuing on to , or travelling to via the Coleraine-Portrush railway line.
On Saturdays, the service remains hourly, with no peak time services.
On Sundays, trains alternate between Derry-Londonderry, Portrush and Great Victoria Street, offering an hourly service from Coleraine to Belfast 14 trains to and from Portrush but 8 of them trains start/terminating here and six trains to and from Londonderry.
Coleraine
Coleraine ( ; from ga, Cúil Rathain , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern ...
in County Londonderry
County Londonderry ( Ulster-Scots: ''Coontie Lunnonderrie''), also known as County Derry ( ga, Contae Dhoire), is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty two counties of Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster. B ...
, Northern Ireland. It shares facilities with the town's Ulsterbus
Ulsterbus is a public transport operator in Northern Ireland and operates bus services outside Belfast. It is part of Translink, the brand name for the subsidiary operating companies of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company, which also ...
bus depot.
History
The station was opened by the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway on 4 December 1855 to designs by the architect Charles Lanyon
Sir Charles Lanyon DL, JP (6 January 1813 – 31 May 1889) was an English architect of the 19th century. His work is most closely associated with Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Biography
Lanyon was born in Eastbourne, Sussex (now East Sussex) in ...
. A similar range of buildings was provided on the east side of the tracks in the 1880s.
The shared train and bus station building has a distinctive rotunda with a high arched entrance, by GM Design Associates.
A short distance from the station is a bascule bridge over the River Bann
The River Bann (from ga, An Bhanna, meaning "the goddess"; Ulster-Scots: ''Bann Wattèr'') is one of the longest rivers in Northern Ireland, its length, Upper and Lower Bann combined, being 129 km (80 mi). However, the total lengt ...
accommodating the railway over the river navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.Bowditch, 2003:799. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, ...
.
Service
On weekdays, there is an hourly service operating to , with extra services at peak times, and some late night and early morning trains terminating here. In the other direction, the service alternates every hour between continuing on to , or travelling to via the Coleraine-Portrush railway line.
On Saturdays, the service remains hourly, with no peak time services.
On Sundays, trains alternate between Derry-Londonderry, Portrush and Great Victoria Street, offering an hourly service from Coleraine to Belfast 14 trains to and from Portrush but 8 of them trains start/terminating here and six trains to and from Londonderry.
References
Railway stations in County Londonderry Coleraine Railway stations opened in 1855 Railway stations served by NI Railways Grade B1 listed buildings Rail junctions in Northern Ireland 1855 establishments in Ireland {{NorthernIreland-railstation-stub