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Church Walls, COLERAINE, BT52 2DT

The branch service to Portrush is waiting in the platform

Built in 1882 by the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway, this station replaced an earlier structure dating from 1855. While the old station still stands, a new combined road/rail station opened on 26 March 2001. Sadly, the Pullman Bar closed many years ago. For a more recent view, see Image

Seen from the footbridge at Coleraine Railway Station, on the left is Northern Ireland Railways C4K set 4020 on a service from Belfast to Derry/Londonderry (see also Image); on the right is C4K set 4008 which will shortly be running a service from Coleraine to Portrush (see also Image]). See Image for an explanation.

The up platform at Coleraine station Image where passengers await the 13.51 Londonderry – Belfast Gt Victoria Street. Many will have transferred from the connecting 14.15 Portrush – Coleraine Image This ironwork Image can be seen on the right.

Part of a class of three intended for shunting and ballast train duties, diesel hydraulic locomotive no 3 at Coleraine. Taken on the same day as Image thanks to the use of a Rail Runabout ticket.

At one time NIR was subject to considerable disruption caused by what the media called “security alerts” ie “bomb hoaxes” to the rest of us. In the days before Translink, NIR had to hire substitute buses from Ulsterbus or Citybus. It solved the problem by buying three coaches which were painted in railway livery. One is seen outside Coleraine station as passengers board from a train just arrived from Belfast. The Londonderry line had been closed between Coleraine and Castlerock following a bridge strike by an oversize lorry. See also Image

The present station dates from 1882 replacing the original one of 1855. Extensively modernised and now incorporating the re-built bus station (right). The railway entrance was inside the porch (seen in use in Image). It was closed on modernisation and replaced by a common one (second arch from the far right) also serving the bus station. There used to be a “Pullman Bar” (to the left of the porch).

Intricate ironwork, on the columns supporting the canopy, on the up platform Image, at Coleraine station.

The 14.15 Portrush – Coleraine on arrival at Coleraine where most of the passengers transferred to the connecting 13.51 Londonderry – Belfast Gt Victoria Street.

A vandalised Ulsterbus (ex-Edinburgh Corporation) Leyland Tiger Cub parked at Coleraine depot. The railway wagon (right) is a brown (parcels/mail) van.