A servant girl living the station accidentally upset oil lamp over the refreshment rooms, and in a few minutes the whole building was ablaze.

[3] An 18 year old engine cleaner — Hugh McLaughlin from Londonderry - was found dead in the station pump room on 9 December 1909.

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.

[6] In December 1952, the Irish minister of industry and commerce signed an order authorizing the closure of rail services to Buncrana.