Downhill railway station

Downhill
Downhill
General information
Location	Downhill, County Londonderry; Northern Ireland
Coordinates	55°09′59″N 6°49′14″W / 55.166446°N 6.820480°W
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
Pre-grouping	Belfast and Northern Counties Railway
Post-grouping	Northern Ireland Railways
Key dates
18 July 1853	Station opens
3 September 1973	Station closes

Downhill railway station served the hamlet of Downhill in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.

The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway opened the station on 18 July 1853.^[1] A station building and adjacent station house was erected in 1874 to designs by the architect John Lanyon.^[2]

It closed on 3 September 1973.

Routes

Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways	Following station
Castlerock		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Derry	Magilligan
	Historical railways
Castlerock Line and station open		Londonderry and Coleraine Railway Coleraine-Derry	Umbra Line open, station closed

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

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