9 September 1864 Station opens | 10 August 1953 Station closes | |
6 September 1948 Station closes for passengers Original company | ||
Buncrana railway station served Buncrana in County Donegal, Ireland.
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Railway use
The station opened on 9 September 1864 on the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway line from Londonderry Graving Dock to Buncrana. It was designed by the Derry architect Fitzgibbon Louch.
On 30 July 1922, during the Irish Civil War, Buncrana was captured by the Free State forces from Anti-treaty forces. The Free State forces held the railway station and all the roads entering the town. Later that day, 100 Free State troops commandeered a train at Buncrana station and proceeded to take Clonmany, Carndonagh and other locations on the peninsula.
It closed for passengers on 6 September 1948.
Freight services finished on 10 August 1953.
Post railway use
The station buildings still exist. They were purchased in 1952 by Dan and Molly Porter and have been converted to a public house – The Drift Inn. It is recorded on the Record of Protected Structures in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage of Ireland.