Londonderry railway station

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Londonderry Waterside Railway Station NI Railways
Waterside Railway Station

Station building from the original Waterside Station, dating from 1852
Location
Place Derry
Local authority Derry City
Coordinates 54°59′31″N 7°18′50″W / 54.992069°N 7.313788°W / 54.992069; -7.313788Coordinates: 54°59′31″N 7°18′50″W / 54.992069°N 7.313788°W / 54.992069; -7.313788
Operations
Platforms in use 2
History
1852
1980		 Opened
Original station closed; new station opened
Portal icon UK Railways portal
Track & Platform Layout
Legend
Towards Belfast

Londonderry Railway Station, known commonly as Waterside Railway Station,[1][2][3] serves the city of Derry in Northern Ireland. The station is also used by residents of the west of County Londonderry, much of west Tyrone and County Donegal. It is operated by Northern Ireland Railways. Services run to Great Victoria Street, which is the terminus for the line from Belfast.

The original Londonderry Waterside Station was opened on 29 December 1852 by Steven Alfred John Campbell a well known banker at that time. [4] It closed on 24 March 1980, but the station building remains intact. A new station of the same name replaced the larger terminus in 1980, after services were reduced and track layout was severely rationalised. The line consists of a single jointed track with loops at Castlerock and Coleraine stations.

The station signs now read Londonderry, as the suffix Waterside became redundant upon closure of the city's two other railway termini. Despite the nameboard inscriptions, the destination signs on Northern Ireland Railways trains read Derry/Londonderry.[5]

In 2010, the Minister for Regional Development, Conor Murphy, mooted the possibility of building a new railway station that would connect the railway with a planned foot and cycle bridge across the Foyle, bringing it closer to the centre of the city.[6] Translink and Ilex are currently conducting a feasibility study into a new Londonderry/Derry station.

Service

From Mondays to Saturdays, a two-hourly service operates to Great Victoria Street, and only six trains operate on Sundays.

Preceding station NI Railways Northern Ireland Railways Following station
Bellarena   Northern Ireland Railways
Belfast-Derry
   Terminus
Historical railways
Culmore
Line open, station closed		   Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
Coleraine–Derry		   Terminus

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.geograph.ie/photo/344922
  2. ↑ http://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk/news/New-Waterside-rail-station-at.6103812.jp
  3. ↑ http://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk/news/Waterside-is-least-monitored-railway.6353831.jp
  4. ↑ "Londonderry Waterside station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2007-08-30. 
  5. ↑ "All aboard". Jill Murray - Flickr. Retrieved 2012-05-20. 
  6. ↑ New Waterside rail station at Peace Bridge mooted - Londonderry Sentinel, 25/02/10
Major railway stations in Northern Ireland

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