Dunloy railway station

Dunloy
Dunloy
	The remains of Dunloy station photographed on 17 March 1982
General information
Location	Dunloy, County Antrim; Northern Ireland
Coordinates	55°00′55″N 6°24′09″W / 55.0153°N 6.4025°W
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Belfast and Northern Counties Railway
Post-grouping	Northern Ireland Railways
Key dates
1 July 1856	Station opens
17 October 1976	Station closes

Dunloy railway station served the village of Dunloy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

History

The signal box at Dunloy was destroyed in 1921 and again in 1957 during periods of civil disturbance.^[2]

The station closed to passengers on 17 October 1976

There have been calls to reopen the station at Dunloy.

Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways	Following station
Cullybackey		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Derry	Ballymoney
	Historical railways
Killagan Line open, station closed		Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway Ballymena-Portrush	Ballymoney Line and station open

^ "Dunloy 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