Downhill railway station served the hamlet of

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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 ...

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. The

Londonderry and Coleraine Railway The Londonderry & Coleraine Railway is a Rail transport, railway line between the cities of Derry and Coleraine in County Londonderry, built by the Londonderry & Coleraine Railway Company (L&CR). The company operated the line independently for s ...

opened the station on 18 July 1853. A station building and adjacent station house was erected in 1874 to designs by the architect

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.The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984 It closed on 3 September 1973.

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Disused railway stations in County Londonderry Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1853 Railway stations in Northern Ireland closed in 1973 {{Ireland-railstation-stub