Dhu Varren railway station

Dhu Varren railway station

Infobox NI station
name = Dhu Varren



locale = Dhu Varren
borough = Coleraine Borough Council
years = 1969
2008
events = Station opened
Station refurbished
platforms = 1
usage0405 =

Dhu Varren railway station is a railway station serving Dhu Varren, on the outskirts of Portrush in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

It is a single line halt on the Coleraine-Portrush railway line, less than a mile from the terminus, with a single platform and is unstaffed.

It was opened on 10 February 1969 [cite web | title=Dhu Varren station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | accessdate=2007-08-30] primarily to cater for travel to University (Coleraine) railway station. [cite book|author=Rowledge, J. W. P.|title=A regional history of railways, vol. 16 – Ireland|date=1995|publisher=Atlantic Transport Publishers|location=Penryn|isbn=0-906899-63-X]

It has a surviving "somersault" type semaphore signal.

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