Coleraine railway station
Coleraine railway station serves the town of Coleraine in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It shares facilities with the town's Ulsterbus bus depot.
| General information | |||||||
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| Location | Coleraine Northern Ireland | ||||||
| Coordinates | 55.133856°N 6.662937°W | ||||||
| Owned by | NI Railways | ||||||
| Operated by | NI Railways | ||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||
| Construction | |||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||
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| 1855 | Opened | ||||||
| 1965 | Goods traffic ceased | ||||||
| 2000 | Interchange station built | ||||||
| Passengers | |||||||
| 2022/23 | 729,029 [1] | ||||||
| 2023/24 | 920,604 [2] | ||||||
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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. 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.[3]
A short distance from the station is a bascule bridge over the River Bann accommodating the railway over the river navigation.
Service
On weekdays, there is an hourly service operating to City Hospital, 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 Derry~Londonderry, or travelling to Portrush 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 City Hospital, offering an hourly service from Coleraine to Belfast. This includes 14 trains to and from Portrush, with 8 trains starting/terminating here and 6 trains to and from Derry~Londonderry.
References
- "FOI1317 NIR Footfall 2223.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- "FOI Footfall 2023 2024 figures PDF.pdf". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 7 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- "GM Design Associates". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2012.