Station Name: BUNCRANA

[Source: Jim McBride & Paul Wright]
Date opened: 8.9.1864
Location: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Company on opening: Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway
Date closed to passengers: 6.9.1948
Date closed completely: 10.8.1953
Company on closing: Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway
Present state: Station buildings extant.
County: Donegal
OS Grid Ref: xxxxxxxxxxx
Date of visit: 14.9.2020

Notes: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

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Tickets from Michael Stewart. Timetables from Jim McBride and route map by Alan Young

Sources:

  • Bell D & Flanders S The Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway - A Visitors Guide(County Donegal Railways Restoration Society, xxxx)
  • Flanders S, S Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway - An Irish Railway Pictorial(Midland Publishing, 1997)
  • Johnson, S Johnson's Atlas & Gazetteer of The Railways of Ireland (Midland Publishing, 1997)
  • Mahon, G Irish Railway Record Society Journals - 1954 to 1985 (Irish Railway Record Society)

To see the other disused stations between Londonderry Middle Quay and Buncrana click on the station name: Londonderry Middle Quay,
Londonderry Graving Dock, Pennyburn Halt, Gallagh, Harrity's Road,
Bridge End, Burnfoot, Tooban Junction, Inch Road, Lamberton's Halt, Fahan,
Beach Platform and Golf Platform

See also: Trady and Farland Point.
Buncrana station looking north in the 1890s. Since opening in 1864 the station had been the northern terminus of the L&LSR line from Derry/Londonderry but after 19xx it would become a through station on the line to Carndonagh. This view shows the station in its original form. Coaches are being propelled into the platform presumably to operate a service to Londonderry Graving Dock.
Copyright photo from the John Alsop collection


Buncrana station shown on a 25-inch scale map from the early1950s.


For the opening of the extension to Carndonagh in 19xx the station facilities at Buncrana were significantly expanded. An additional platform was added (called the Carndonagh platform) and it can be see in this view from 19 April 1948. Waiting to depart is a train for Londonderry Graving Dock.
Copyright photo by H C Casserley from the Ernies Railway Archive collection

July 1950.
Copyright photo from Colour Rail

Buncrana station seen looking north from the xxx road on 14 September 2020.
Photo by Paul Wright

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[Source: Jim McBride & Paul Wright]

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